• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Feb-13-2018
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on How to find your motherboard’s Spectre CPU fix

Operating system patches alone can protect against the nasty Meltdown flaw affecting Intel processors, but fixing Spectre—Meltdown’s nasty sibling, which affects all CPUs—requires firmware updates for your hardware. Those firmware fixes are finally available for all Intel processors scheduled to […]

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Feb-08-2018
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Intel releases stable Spectre patches for Skylake PCs, recovering from a bad bout of bugs

If you own a Skylake-based PC and receive a patch to address the Spectre vulnerabilities, install it—Intel has greenlit the code.About two weeks after Intel recommended users halt or roll back Spectre and Meltdown patches because of system instability, the company disclosed […]

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Feb-08-2018
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Intel releases stable Spectre patches for Skylake PCs, recovering from a bad bout of bugs

If you own a Skylake-based PC and receive a patch to address the Spectre vulnerabilities, install it—Intel has greenlit the code.About two weeks after Intel recommended users halt or roll back Spectre and Meltdown patches because of system instability, the company disclosed […]

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Feb-07-2018
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on PCWorld’s February Digital Magazine: Meltdown and Spectre security flaws

Stay on top of the latest tech with PCWorld’s Digital Magazine. Available as single copies or as a monthly subscription, it highlights the best content from PCWorld.com—the most important news, the key product reviews, and the most useful features and […]