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Microsoft halts chip bug patch

2018-01-09 16:48:37| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

Fixes for the Meltdown and Spectre flaw are temporarily halted by Microsoft after AMD machines freeze.

Meltdown Patch Has No Real-World Performance Effect So Far

2018-01-08 17:30:44| Extremetech

Spectre and Meltdown's impact on consumers is still unclear. New efforts to analyze the scope of the problem are showing little impact in some areas, more significant drops in others. The post Meltdown Patch Has No Real-World Performance Effect So Far appeared first on ExtremeTech.

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Is Your Antivirus Blocking Microsoft's Chip Patch?

2018-01-05 23:10:23| PC Magazine Security Product Guide

Microsoft's patch for the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities isn't arriving to PCs running incompatible third-party antivirus products because the fix can trigger a bad error.

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