Intel advises users to stop installing CPU patches

Intel is now advising customers not to install previously released patches to address serious CPU flaws that were disclosed publicly this month. Meltdown and Spectre have been demonstrated to put sensitive and private information at risk, if exploited successfully. The flaw exists in hardware and so there was never going to be easy ways to mitigate. Meltdown is a flaw that is exclusively ... [ read the full article ]