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Speedify review: A mobile-focused VPN with zippy upload speeds

Speedify in brief:P2P allowed: YesBusiness location: Philadelphia, PANumber of servers: 1,000+Number of country locations: 32Cost: $50VPN protocol: Speedify protocol (proprietary)Data encryption: ChaCha20 (mostly for older devices); AES-256 (for dev...
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Microsoft will host Intel’s Spectre and Meltdown patches on its own site

If you’ve been worried about receiving Spectre and Meltdown BIOS patches for the PC you built yourself, there may be a solution: Microsoft has begun supplying them itself via an archive on its site.Typically, patching Spectre and Meltdown mitigations have […]

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Microsoft will host Intel’s Spectre and Meltdown patches on its own site

If you’ve been worried about receiving Spectre and Meltdown BIOS patches for the PC you built yourself, there may be a solution: Microsoft has begun supplying them itself via an archive on its site.Typically, patching Spectre and Meltdown mitigations have […]

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Intel quietly releases Spectre fixes for Haswell and Broadwell CPUs

The fixed Spectre fixes are coming fast and furious now. Intel quietly pushed CPU firmware updates out for Haswell (4th-generation) and Broadwell (5th-generation) processors earlier this week, following in the footsteps of recent microcode patches for Skylake (6th-gen), Kaby Lake […]

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