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Apple: All Mac and iOS devices affected by CPU flaws

article published on 5 January, 2018

Apple has confirmed that its Mac and iOS devices are affected by CPU flaws disclosed this week, and that it is patching to mitigate the threat. Apple confirmed on its tech support website that all Mac systems and iOS devices are affected, but there are no known exploits impacting customers at this time. The Cupertino giant has already issued fixes to address the threat of Meltdown, specifically ... [ read the full article ]

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cart0181
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_ 		5. January 2018 @ 19:41 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
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 Meltdown and Spectre affect almost all CPUs sold in consumer devices for a couple of decades.
Not true. AMD processors are basically unaffected by Meltdown.
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Bozobub
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_ 		6. January 2018 @ 21:17 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
That's not going to make a heck of a lot of difference; "Spectre" is the real bugaboo.

More specifically, however, that sentence is perfectly correct; it doesn't claim every device is affected by both issues =).
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