Meltdown and Spectre: Here’s what Intel, Apple, Microsoft, others are doing about it
Enlarge (credit: Jen) The Meltdown and Spectre flaws—two related vulnerabilities that enable a wide range of information disclosure from every mainstream processor, with particularly severe flaws for Intel and some ARM chips—were originally revealed privately to chip companies, operating system developers, and cloud computing providers. That private disclosure was scheduled to become public some time next week, enabling...