News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Intel Confronts Potential ‘PR Nightmare’ With Reported Chip Flaw. Parent comment

Re:Intel Confronts Potential ‘PR Nightmare’ With Reported Ch... by api on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @10:53AM (#16061972)
A lot of people have noticed that High Sierra is slower than Sierra, specifically for filesystem operations with APFS. I wonder if Apple knew about this ahead of time and this explains the overhead?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Intel Confronts Potential ‘PR Nightmare’ With Reported Ch... by InTheArena on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @11:05AM (#16062100)
Probably not. APFS just does a lot more then HFS, so there is a huge performance impact on disk related issues before this change goes in.

This is a all hands on deck kind of situation. Apple doesn't usually do well with security firedrills like this.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Intel Confronts Potential ‘PR Nightmare’ With Reported Ch... by baq on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @01:23PM (#16063529)
If work in NT and Linux kernels started on November, they must know. Intel must've told them, the alternative of Apple learning about this from a third party and grilling them over it would be too scary.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Intel Confronts Potential ‘PR Nightmare’ With Reported Ch... by iainmerrick on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @03:02PM (#16064513)
I just wonder whether Apple is threatening to move all their Macs to AMD, or to ARM?
[ Parent | on HN ]
[dead]
Re:Intel Confronts Potential ‘PR Nightmare’ With Reported Ch... by saagarjha on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @01:23PM (#16063517)
Unless they live in a bubble, I’m sure most people at Apple are already aware of this.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Intel Confronts Potential ‘PR Nightmare’ With Reported Ch... by collinvandyck76 on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @03:34PM (#16064813)
It was a joke referencing the login vulnerability that was disclosed on twitter a couple of months ago.
[ Parent | on HN ]