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Apple Confirms All Mac and iOS Devices Vulnerable to Meltdown and Spectre
In case you’ve been blissfully unaware — I’m jealous — this week we learned about two different exploits discovered in just about every computer ever. (Or at least since 1995.) Called Spectre and Meltdown, the vulnerabilities leave what you thought was secure information wide open to hackers. And now we know that includes all of Apple’s Mac and iOS devices. The company confirmed the affected devices in a blog post on Thursday.
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Intel facing class-action lawsuits over Meltdown and Spectre bugs
Intel has been hit with at least three class-action lawsuits over the major processor vulnerabilities revealed this week. The flaws, called Meltdown and Spectre, exist within virtually all modern processors and could allow hackers to steal sensitive data although no data breaches have been reported yet. While Spectre affects processors made by a variety of firms, Meltdown appears to primarily affect Intel processors made since 1995.
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The inventor of Linux is furious at Intel
Linus Torvalds, the inventor and founder of the Linux operating system, is not known for holding back strong opinions he has about computers, and he is now one of the loudest voices critical of Intel's handling of "Meltdown," the flaw revealed Wednesday that could enable an attacker to steal confidential information including passwords.
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What’s behind the Intel design flaw forcing numerous patches?
Both Windows and Linux are receiving significant security updates that can, in the worst case, cause performance to drop by half, to defend against a problem that as yet hasn't been fully disclosed. Patches to the Linux kernel have been trickling in over the past few weeks. Microsoft has been testing the Windows updates in the Insider program since November, and it is expected to put the alterations into mainstream Windows builds on Patch Tuesday next week. Microsoft's Azure has scheduled maintenance next week, and Amazon's AWS is scheduled for maintenance on Friday—presumably related.
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Report: All Intel Processors Made in the Last Decade Might Have a Massive Security Flaw
There’s small screwups and big screwups. Here is tremendously huge screwup: Virtually all Intel processors produced in the last decade have a major security hole that could allow “normal user programs—from database applications to JavaScript in web browsers—to discern to some extent the layout or contents of protected kernel memory areas,” the Register reported on Tuesday.
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AMD Soars After Rival Intel Reveals Processor Flaw
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. surged in early trading after a report that Intel Corp., its only remaining rival in the market for personal computer processors, has a flaw in its products that makes commonly used operating systems vulnerable to hackers.
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Researchers say Intel's Management Engine feature can be switched off
It seems some government customers can request Intel's always-on Management Engine (ME) 'master controller' for its CPUs to be disabled.
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Samsung ends Intel’s 24-year reign, becomes the largest chipmaker in the world
Samsung announced its quarterly results yesterday, and became the most profitable company in the world. However, the company broke a few other records as well. It ended Intel’s 24-year reign as the largest semiconductor-based chipmaker in the world. Samsung has now leapfrogged Intel by posting a higher revenue as well as operating profits during Q2 2017.
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AMD Ryzen 5 1600 vs Intel Core i7-7800X: 30 Game Battle!
Power Consumption & The Verdict. After comparing Intel's new Core i7-7800X and AMD's Ryzen 5 1600 in productivity workloads, we're back by popular request to learn whether Intel still takes the cake when it comes to high-end gaming.
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[WARNING] Intel Skylake/Kaby Lake processors: broken hyper-threading
Unfixed Skylake and Kaby Lake processors could, in some situations, dangerously misbehave when hyper-threading is enabled. Disable hyper-threading immediately in BIOS/UEFI to work around the problem. Read this advisory for instructions about an Intel-provided fix.
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Intel Will Sponsor the Olympics to Showcase Virtual Reality Tech
Intel plans to sponsor the Olympics through 2024 in the company's latest bid to show off its technology through high-profile sports events. The chipmaker said it will partner with the International Olympic Committee to bring Intel's technology, such as virtual reality, 360-degree video, artificial intelligence and drones, to enhance the Olympic Games.
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Intel Announces Skylake-X: Bringing 18-Core HCC Silicon to Consumers for $1999
There are days in this profession in which I am surprised. The longer I stay in the technology industry, they become further and further apart. There are several reasons to be surprised: someone comes out of the blue with a revolutionary product and the ecosystem/infrastructure to back it up, or a company goes above and beyond a recent mediocre pace to take on the incumbents (with or without significant financial backing). One reason is confusion, as to why such a product would ever be thought of, and another is seeing how one company reacts to another.
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Intel and Samsung Gang Up on Qualcomm, Backing FTC Monopoly Suit
Samsung Electronics Co. and Intel Corp. weighed in with their own gripes about Qualcomm Inc. while cheering on the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s lawsuit accusing the chipmaker of trying to corner the market for semiconductors used in smartphones. The South Korean company, one of Qualcomm’s largest customers, and Intel, one of its biggest competitors, filed arguments Friday in support of the FTC’s case against Qualcomm. Both contend the San Diego-based company stops them from competing fairly against it by leveraging patents that cover the fundamentals of modern phone systems.
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Shares of AMD fall for second day after new processor disappoints on gaming
Advanced Micro Devices shares fell for a second-straight day after the firm's new Ryzen line of desktop processors disappointed gamers.
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Intel is Dropping Processor Prices in Wake of Ryzen Launch
It seems that Intel is getting nervous about the AMD Ryzen launch and has started to lower prices on their processors. The equivalent 6900K model however still is 999 USD, twice as much as the Ryzen flagship. Others like the quad-core processors do see a price cut. Also we think with a tiny bit of tweaking that 6900K might even get beaten or normalized by even a 329 USD Ryzen 7 1700 processor. The new prices have not gone into effect everywhere, here in the EU they are still at the same old level. In the USA etailers like Newegg also is listing older prices.
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What is the Tor Project & Is it Safe
2017 Using the Tor Project to keep yourself anonymous and safe while using the Internet may not be the safest thing to do. You may be asking to be hacked by the best hackers in the world.
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Intel Stock Reaches 15-Year High; Raises Q3 Revenue Target For PC
Intel is expecting a Q3 revenue of $15.3-15.9 billion as compared to the previous, $14.4-15.4 billion. Intel claims that there are signs of increasing PC demands and hence the company is raising the bar. This would mean a yearly gain of 7.8% which is the best the company has seen since Q3 in 2014. How does this affect Intel Stock? Let’s find out. PC demand has been falling for some time now as we have talked about earlier and this has affected the company in a negative way.
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Intel declares focus shift from PC company to cloud-based computing devices.
Brian Krzanich: Our Strategy and The Future of Intel. Last week I shared how Intel is making broad changes to accelerate our transformation by aligning every segment of our business – our people, our places and our projects – to our strategy. Our strategy itself is about transforming Intel from a PC company to a company that powers the cloud and
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Windows 10 support comes to Via x86 chips
Via Technologies, the third x86 chip maker and a once a threat to Intel and AMD in PCs, is still around, making new x86 chips and bringing Windows 10 support to existing processors.
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Smaller, Faster, Cheaper, Over: The Future of Computer Chips
Fifty years after Gordon Moore made the galvanizing prediction known as Moore’s Law, growth in computing power is slowing.
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