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minus-squareMihies@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22arrow-down1·13 hours agoWhy are they mentioning only Windows?
minus-squaretimroerstroem@feddit.dklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·12 hours agoPerhaps because it came from a Microsoft report. Maybe they only know of this being fixed in Windows? I would assume it’d affect all OSs but then again, I certainly do not know enough about these things to understand what’s going wrong here.
minus-squareMihies@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-210 hours agoThat’d be my assumption as well, but journalists better have to do better
minus-squarermuk@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·10 hours ago“PCs run Windows. I have a Mac, which is not a PC.” - Average Tech Journalist.
minus-squareTheFrogThatFlies@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·12 hours agohttps://www.phoronix.com/news/Transient-Scheduler-Attacks
minus-squareMihies@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·12 hours agoThanks. So zen 5 seems fine and patch for 3 and 4 will come with a newer kernel.
Why are they mentioning only Windows?
Perhaps because it came from a Microsoft report. Maybe they only know of this being fixed in Windows? I would assume it’d affect all OSs but then again, I certainly do not know enough about these things to understand what’s going wrong here.
That’d be my assumption as well, but journalists
betterhave to do better“PCs run Windows. I have a Mac, which is not a PC.” - Average Tech Journalist.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Transient-Scheduler-Attacks
Thanks. So zen 5 seems fine and patch for 3 and 4 will come with a newer kernel.