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[hotaru]

the article could also use a correction:



AMD did publish an announcement today, but it wasn't announcing those months-old ...

[hotaru]

this is old news:





https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryzen#Embedded...

[hotaru]

nope. if you look at the original Go bug report, it was about corrupted data....

[hotaru]

this is true, but anyone doing the first of those now needs to verify that the other two didn't happen. in practice, this means they have to run the computation...

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this bug doesn't only affect Go. it was just noticed first in Go. anyone doing AVX computations on a kernel with the bug could be affected (incorrect...

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we don't actually know that the fallout has been tiny:...

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*thinks* didn't VirtualBox already have...?



oh....

[hotaru]

still no answer to the most important question about Intel's GPUs: what new and exciting hardware security vulnerabilities are they going to bring?

[hotaru]

If it's just something that causes the computer or program to crash, that's still a security vulnerability....

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especially now that we have multiple examples (including this vulnerability) of Intel waiting a full year to do anything at all about security vulner...

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even most benchmarks of open source systems don't use full mitigations. most of the mitigation benchmarks on phoronix are done with only the default ...

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so it affects cloud providers and anyone who uses a web browser....