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Intel is once again moving to patch its CPU microcode following the revelation of yet another data-leaking side-channel vulnerability. The same group of university boffins who helped uncover the infamous Spectre and Meltdown flaws say that a third issue, reported back in May under the name ZombieLoad, extends even further into …

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  1. Claptrap314 Silver badge

    Or...

    Run on dedicated boxes & reclaim that huge loss of performance.

    As I said when Spectre first come out--there is no fix without a very heavy penalty in performance/watt.

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: Or...

      Or buy AMD, ARM, RISC-V, etc processors!

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    2. _LC_
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      In other words, run MS-DOS. A multi-user system on Intel never worked, apparently.

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      1. Captain Scarlet
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        I would love that, but users will complain they need access to another process so they can look at Twitter or Amazon for their christmas shopping, I mean for research!

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        1. _LC_
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          If you have the definition of a "user" in your scenario, then you've already lost. Remember, in the "user + admin" scenario there are already two parties; one too many for Intel. ;-)

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    Defective Product

    When is the product recall?

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