When AMD finally issued patches for its critical microcode security hole on Monday, it said that the glitch 'could lead to the loss of Secure Encrypted Virtualization protection.' AMD on Monday issued ...

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Earlier this month, Microsoft announced it would be bundling Intel microcode (BIOS) updates meant to fix the graver version of the Spectre vulnerability as Windows Update packages made available via ...

Google's researchers found a vulnerability in AMD Zen 1 - 4 chips It allows anyone to push microcode updates, even malicious ...

Microsoft has released a set of new microcode patches from Intel that address Spectre vulnerabilities, as well as the recently disclosed Foreshadow attacks. The updates are available for all supported ...

Intel has deployed a new patch for 14th-gen and 13th-gen chips This is another fix for the long-running episode around instability problems So it seems we weren’t done with fixes for those issues ...

How does the interface between software and microcode work? If these microcode features can be turned on and off by software (even at the OS level), does that mean they could also be shut down by ...

If there were a massive security flaw affecting all current Intel processors, you'd want to know about it, right? We'd like to know too, but unfortunately mum's the word from Intel on the reason for a ...

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has introduced a microcode patch that disables the loop buffer functionality in its Zen 4 processor lineup, including Ryzen 7000 series and Epyc CPUs. The loop buffer is ...

Tests of the microcode used to patch AMD’s recent “Inception” bug don’t appear to seriously affect day-to-day performance on Ryzen processors, including gaming. Creative users who use image editing ...

Microsoft has released a new Windows patch to disable Intel’s hardware-based mitigation for the Spectre attack due to bugs introduced by Intel’s mitigation. In the wake of the Spectre and Meltdown ...