Issue with some Intel Processors

It will be interesting to see how Motherboard manufactures react, maybe there will be some good discounts available for boards with Intel processors.

But will it be worth it?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/22/intel_spectre_fix_linux/

Just noticed this:

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-42872301

Just noticed this:

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-42872301

As always the BBC is late with the news. It was covered by El Reg about a week ago. I reported it as a Global announcement on the Zorin forum as some newbies had installed Intel microcode:

https://zoringroup.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=13649&sid=3757870280d498c2f16d465a3ee4d2de

and one GNU/Linux distribution had a fix on 04.01.2018;

https://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showpost.php?p=11800893&postcount=173

The BBC had articles up on the same day as the Reg. This is about the first tranche of Intel sponosred patches that were causing unexpected reboots as I recall...

The BBC had articles up on the same day as the Reg. This is about the first tranche of Intel sponosred patches that were causing unexpected reboots as I recall...

The El Reg one was a week earlier as stated - from said article a week before:

" "We recommend that OEMs, cloud service providers, system manufacturers, software vendors and end users stop deployment of current [microcode] versions, as they may introduce higher than expected reboots and other unpredictable system behavior," warned Intel, effectively freezing the rollout of fixes it earlier this month promised were golden."

from: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/22/intel_spectre_fix_linux/

And I'll repeat what I said before.... the BBC had them up on the same day.

The trouble with the BBC is they amend or update the article and then change the date... so it looks like the entire story appeared on that new date. It's bad journalistic practice and gets them into issues like this.

And I'll repeat what I said before.... the BBC had them up on the same day.

 

The trouble with the BBC is they amend or update the article and then change the date... so it looks like the entire story appeared on that new date. It's bad journalistic practice and gets them into issues like this.

Too true - but when you look at other stories like the issue of the Rohingya people of Burmah, that has been covered much longer by Al Jazeera and covered years before - a bit like the International Community that doesn't want to know either.

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Latest news from ZDNet on the issue, covering a whole gamut of stuff here, not just Personnel shake up at Intel:

http://www.zdnet.com/article/intel-names-new-technology-chief-amid-meltdown-spectre-fallout/

Proposed new slogan for AMD Powered machines: "Intel Outside"