- Other Tips, Tricks and Tutorials
- By Marius Nestor
- January 13th, 2018
How to Check If Your Linux PC Is Vulnerable to Meltdown & Spectre Security Flaws
These are the worse chip flaws in the history of computing
- Linux Distributions
- By Marius Nestor
- January 12th, 2018
Canonical Says It'll Release New Ubuntu Kernels to Further Mitigate Spectre Bugs
The new kernels will be available early next week
- Security
- By Marius Nestor
- January 11th, 2018
AMD Releases Linux and Windows Patches for Two Variants of Spectre Vulnerability
Urges users to update their systems accordingly
- Linux Distributions
- By Marius Nestor
- January 11th, 2018
openSUSE Tumbleweed Now Patched Against Meltdown/Spectre, Adopts LibreOffice 6.0
Mozilla Firefox 57.0.4 and KDE Frameworks 5.41.0 landed
- Security
- By Bogdan Popa
- January 11th, 2018
How to Check If iPhone, Android, Windows Browsers Are Affected by Spectre Bug
Chinese firm releases web-based Spectre checker
- Apple
- By Bogdan Popa
- January 11th, 2018
iPhones Significantly Slowed Down by Spectre Security Update
Apple’s iPhone receives performance hit following patch
- Linux Distributions
- By Marius Nestor
- January 10th, 2018
Canonical Releases Ubuntu Kernel and Nvidia Updates to Fix Meltdown and Spectre Updated
Updates are available for all supported Ubuntu releases
- Linux
- By Marius Nestor
- January 9th, 2018
Greg Kroah-Hartman on Meltdown and Spectre Bugs: Go Update Your Linux Kernel
Meltdown is fully patched, Spectre patches are still coming
- Linux Distributions
- By Marius Nestor
- January 9th, 2018
Linux Mint Devs Respond to Meltdown and Spectre Security Vulnerabilities
Patches are coming soon to all supported releases
- Linux Distributions
- By Marius Nestor
- January 9th, 2018
All Supported 4MLinux and TheSSS Releases Now Patched Against Meltdown & Spectre
Users are urged to update their systems immediately
- Apple Watch
- By Marius Nestor
- January 5th, 2018
Apple Says Apple Watch and watchOS Are Not Affected by Meltdown and Spectre Bugs
Apple Watch wearers shouldn't worry about the new exploits
- Linux
- By Marius Nestor
- January 5th, 2018
All Raspberry Pi Devices Are Immune to the Meltdown and Spectre Vulnerabilities
None of the Raspberry Pi models are affected by these bugs
- Windows Software
- By Bogdan Popa
- January 5th, 2018
Mozilla Firefox 57.0.4 Released with Meltdown and Spectre Patches
New version of Mozilla’s browser now available for download
- Windows
- By Bogdan Popa
- January 5th, 2018
Windows 10 Not Slowed Down by Meltdown and Spectre Patches
Intel said no slowdown likely to be noticed by average users
- Microsoft
- By Bogdan Popa
- January 5th, 2018
Microsoft Releases Updates for Its Devices to Fix Meltdown and Spectre Flaws
Surface models get firmware update to block exploits
- Linux Distributions
- By Marius Nestor
- January 4th, 2018
Canonical Will Soon Patch all Supported Ubuntu Releases Against Meltdown/Spectre
Users are urged to update their systems immediately
- Technology & Gadgets
- By Marius Nestor
- January 4th, 2018
Intel Releases Updates to Make PCs Immune to Metldown and Spectre Security Flaws
The updates only apply to CPUs made in the past five years