[Red Badger]

Ping!....................

[WayneS]

I smell a lawsuit...

[I want the USA back]

These people are going to create artificial intelligence? They can’t even make a processor work right, let alone the software that runs on it.

[Zathras]

Hang on a bit till we know more.
If this is related to Intel Vpro, 90% of systems out there are not effected as they don’t use Vpro.

[w1andsodidwe]

My question is always, Did an H1B visa employee do this? Before I retired I had to monitor everything they did.

[Mariner]

This is a very big deal and will substantially impact Intel’s stock and future revenues.

This is a long-term short opportunity.

[9YearLurker]

A bug?

My guess is that was a feature.

Brought to you by the US government.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Ok, the race is on. Will Apple fix theirs before Microsoft.

Who’s OS will take the biggest hit in speed.

[glorgau]

This is why I’m still running PowerPC based xServes to run websites.

Justified!

[cyberstoic]

Makes me really happy I always buy AMD processors.

[mkleesma]

The guys at AMD must be doing handstands right now.

[bgill]

Nothing to see. It’s just the NSA opening up your backdoor.

[Windflier]

Ping...

[sparklite2]

Make your computer run slower
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[ProtectOurFreedom]

Pfffttt...this is nothing compared to Apple slowing mobile devices with aging batteries a tiny bit to avoid sudden unexpected system shutdowns then offering nearly free battery replacements on your four year old phone.

Let’s keep some perspective here, people.

[Gideon7]

Until I see more info I’m skeptical. This could be nothing more than a timing delay when attempting to access certain kernel memory locations. The fact that there is no demonstrable exploit code makes me think it is just theoretical.

[steve86]

It was the speculative code branching that did them in, because it was coded carelessly.

From the Register article:

It appears, from what AMD software engineer Tom Lendacky was suggesting above, that Intel's CPUs speculatively execute code potentially without performing security checks. It seems it may be possible to craft software in such a way that the processor starts executing an instruction that would normally be blocked – such as reading kernel memory from user mode – and completes that instruction before the privilege level check occurs.

That would allow ring-3-level user code to read ring-0-level kernel data. And that is not good.

[combat_boots]

Ah

The 0bama ‘chip’

[Vendome]

[Pollard]

AMD running Linux here, yay