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Re:Intel Analysis of Speculative Execution Side Channels [pdf] by anonymfus on Friday January 05, 2018 @02:08PM (#16080776)
I don't know what you mean by "first public disclosure" but these mitigations were already disclosed yesterday when Linux patch with their support was submitted: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/1/4/615
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Re:Intel Analysis of Speculative Execution Side Channels [pdf] by puddums on Friday January 05, 2018 @02:23PM (#16080900)
People had been waiting on more details of the Intel microcode update, for example from kernel mailing list yesterday mid-day:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/1/4/696

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