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Tag: patches
BBC UK weather forecast: MIST and fog patches to DAMPEN Valentine's Day sunshine
Forecasters expect a band of patchy mist and fog to smother areas in the south and east of the UK. Southern England and east Wales will bear the brunt of the bad weather during the early hours of Thursday. Meanwhile, a covering of cloud strikes the far north, resulting in an outbreak of rain across […]
Netflix won’t reward kids with ‘patches’ for watching TV
Last week, reports surfaced that Netflix was testing a sort of rewards program wherein children could earn “patches” for watching shows like A Series of Unfortunate Events and Fuller House. While the patches didn’t come with any additional benefits and didn’t unlock new content, some expressed concern that it would encourage children to watch too […]
Grammarly patches bug that could expose everything you write
Grammarly, a copyediting extension for Chrome and Firefox that points out typos and grammatical mistakes, had a major bug that allowed any website you visit to log into your account and read everything you ever wrote. It made all your documents, history, logs, tweets and blog posts vulnerable to high-tech snoops. Google’s Project Zero, which […]
Microsoft is issuing software updates to fix the damage caused by Intel’s Spectre and Meltdown patches (MSFT, INTC)
Getty Images/Drew Angerer Microsoft is releasing a series of software updates to all Windows 10 machines that previously received patches from Intel that were supposed to fix the security flaws brought by Spectre and Meltdown, The Verge first reported. If it doesn’t sound clear, it’s because it is indeed a mess. Here’s what happened: When […]
Meltdown and Spectre Patches From Intel and Others Have a Rough Start
In the haste to address the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities that shook the computer industry, several clumsy patch attempts have had to be pulled. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a6655aa3e45fc27d5738346/master/pass/Spectre-Update.jpg
Spectre and Meltdown patches causing trouble as realistic attacks get closer
Enlarge (credit: Simon Smith) Applications, operating systems, and firmware all need to be updated to defeat Meltdown and protect against Spectre, two attacks that exploit features of high-performance processors to leak information and undermine system security. The computing industry has been scrambling to respond after news of the problem broke early a few days into […]
Meltdown and Spectre Patches Have Caused Serious Performance Issues
Two of the worst vulnerabilities in years are slowly being fixed—but at a cost to consumers and companies alike. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a56bc0d7c03c23a9897a236/master/pass/meltdownspectureslowdown.jpg
Here’s how, and why, the Spectre and Meltdown patches will hurt performance
Enlarge (credit: Aurich / Getty) As the industry continues to grapple with the Meltdown and Spectre attacks, operating system and browser developers in particular are continuing to develop and test schemes to protect against the problems. Simultaneously, microcode updates to alter processor behavior are also starting to ship. Since news of these attacks first broke, […]
Epic pins ‘Fortnite’ server woes on Meltdown patches
The Meltdown vulnerability is bound to have far-reaching effects on the computing industry, but it’s having a very tangible effect right now: it’s causing chaos for multiplayer gaming. Epic Games has blamed Meltdown patches for login problems and downtime in Fortnite, pointing to the increased processor use at the third-party cloud services the battle royale […]
