Revealed: How Spectre Updates Will Affect Your PC
We assume you’re fully aware of Meltdown and Spectre, the two new, and rather scary, CPU exploits, by now. If not, then read our overview of Meltdown and Spectre before continuing. Done? Good. Now it’s time to find out exactly how the Windows updates Microsoft has released will affect your PC. We have written a whole article answering the question, “Is your Windows PC affected by Meltdown and Spectre?” And now, thanks to Microsoft, we know how the firmware updates designed to fix these CPU exploits will affect your computer. And it’s fair to say there’s some good news and...
Read the full article: Revealed: How Spectre Updates Will Affect Your PC
from MakeUseOf http://ift.tt/2EtHCbw
via IFTTT