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Re:AMD ships microcode update to disable some branch prediction by dingo_bat on Saturday January 06, 2018 @12:49AM (#16084049)
> Being free (or open) source have nothing to do with security

My Windows 10 machine got the Meltdown patch yesterday, in an out-of-band, undelayable update. Then it restarted itself during the night and this morning it's secure. My Ubuntu laptop is still unpatched and I'm not sure when the 4.15 upgrade will come to 16.04.

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Re:AMD ships microcode update to disable some branch prediction by jraph on Sunday January 07, 2018 @02:40PM (#16092242)
Ubuntu is probably going to be updated before January, 9th (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/KnowledgeBase/SpectreAn...)
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