Anarcho-Syndicalism -
Theory and Practice by Rudolf Rockner
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Wednesday, 3 January 2018
quote [ A fundamental design flaw in Intel's processor chips has forced a significant redesign of the Linux and Windows kernels to defang the chip-level security bug. Other OSes will need an update, performance hits loom. ]
This could turn into a Volkswagen-level fuckup:
https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/12/19/intels-ceo-just-sold-a-lot-of-stock.aspx
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hellboy said @ 8:06pm GMT on 3rd January
Yeah, I'm sure Apple is already looking at putting their ARM chips in Macs.
hellboy said @ 8:08pm GMT on 3rd January
Yeah, I'm sure Apple is already looking at putting their ARM chips in Macs. It's too bad they don't have an AMD kernel.
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hellboy said @ 8:06pm GMT on 3rd January
Yeah, I'm sure Apple is already looking at putting their ARM chips in Macs. It's too bad they don't have an AMD kernel.
Affects pretty much all Intel CPUs going back a decade (Coffee Lake appears to be the only exception). MacOS will need a patch too, it's a hardware problem so I'm not sure why they called out Windows and Linux. This looks to be worse than the Pentium floating-point bug - there's no hardware fix, and the software fix will impose a 5-30% performance hit. And I just bought a new computer with a 10-core Xeon CPU. Think I'm going to keep it off the internet and avoid the patch, I need maximum horsepower.