Meltdown and Spectre: ‘worst ever’ CPU bugs affect virtually all computers

whitestar_999

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+1. Also control VAT % in our country & stoppage of free/discount rate petrol to mantris.
Petrol was never sold in India at its current international price,it was always subsidised & the reason for India's huge import bill.The prices have been deregulated for a few years now.Petrol & Diesel don't come under GST & if govt reduces taxes on them to reduce their price then govt's income will also reduce significantly.There is no such thing as free in this world,it is better to accept fuel prices as they are & instead focus on reducing expenditure elsewhere.
 

bssunilreddy

Chosen of the Omnissiah
Several companies like Asus, MSI & Gigabyte removed their Meltdown & Spectre bugs rectified Bioses and Drivers.
New updated software is being tested and shall be released shortly by the respective companies.

I think Intel released rectified measures in a haste without testing their validity. Now it has already re-released rectified updated measures(softwares) to the OEMs. The OEMs are in the process of testing them before releasing it to general public(end users)

The Microcode updates given by AMD has already rectified their Processors and Graphics Processors for Meltdown but for Spectre updated softwares are yet to be released by AMD.

To the general public, these 2 bugs are not much of inconvenience but it affects Enterprise Systems used for mission critical operations.

What does the hackers will find in normal systems like ours, ex: Games, songs etc
 

bssunilreddy

Chosen of the Omnissiah
AMD might have known about these bugs when it was releasing Ryzen Processors, so released microcode updates beforehand. Even Intel might have known including all other chip manufacturers but they gave less importance to it before being blown out of proportions about these 2 bugs.

Now they are licking their wounds but I think updated measures will be available by next month and continue into next year as well. The updates will be released in increments correcting one flaw at a time because it is hardware based right.
 

whitestar_999

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@bssunilreddy AMD processors are not affected by Meltdown bug.Spectre bug has two versions v1 & v2.For Spectre v2 bios/processor microcode update is required.For Spectre v1 there are only software updates(OS & browsers).
 
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