Google has just published details on two vulnerabilities named Meltdown and Spectre that in the company’s assessment affect “every processor [released] since 1995.”
Source: Google: Almost All CPUs Since 1995 Vulnerable To “Meltdown” And “Spectre” Flaws
Other OSes will need an update, performance hits loom
Source: ‘Kernel memory leaking’ Intel processor design flaw forces Linux, Windows redesign
Apple is putting a lot of stock in the ability of their PR department to manage their latest scandal. It takes a Machiavellian Genius to come up with the preposterous excuse that their latest cpu-throttling scandal was done for purely noble reasons. Wow. Even if this were a new blunder for Appl
Source: CPU Throttling — A Perfect Scandal for Right to Repair — The Repair Association
The plaintiffs claim that Apple’s iOS updates “were engineered to purposefully slowdown or ‘throttle down’ the performance speeds” older iPhones.
Source: Apple sued in Chicago for slowing down older iPhones
Microsoft has released updates earlier this month to patch a vulnerability in the Windows 10 Hello facial recognition system that allows an attacker to bypass the facial scan with a printed photo.
Source: Windows 10 Facial Recognition Feature Can Be Bypassed with a Photo