OT: Evidence of A Intel Virtual Memory Vulnerability

[Joakim]

On Friday, 5 January 2018 at 21:04:16 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:
> On Thursday, 4 January 2018 at 02:06:04 UTC, Brad Roberts wrote:
>> Calling it a vendor or architecture specific issue is a bit 
>> misleading, based on the reading I did today.
>
> In my defense, when I posted this all people had to go off of 
> where the linux git patches. I assume the announcement was 
> release when it was is because the reddit post linked made it 
> to the front page, which forced their hand.

Yes, the linux patches caused a lot of speculation so they pushed 
up the release from next week:

https://www.anandtech.com/show/12214/understanding-meltdown-and-spectre