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Oh no.

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[–] nl4real@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

My old-ass Ivy Bridge: Oh no! Anyway...

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I'm curious if there's a silver lining of all current DRM keys being accessible through this.

Good thing my CPU is ancient.

[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Bwahaha I'm safe with my i5 3450, gotta look at the brighter side of my dumpster fire of a pc

[–] ndsvw@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What does that even mean for me (has Debian running on a 2015 MacBook with Intel processor).

Will I get such a driver patch somehow?

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I just checked my package updates on my Debian server and there is a new update for the Intel-Microcodes available already.

[–] stardreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's the AVX-2/AVX-512 instructions that have issues. In most cases unless you're running a server CPU (or extremely recent consumer CPU) you'll be fine.

Scary for HPC/AI? Yes. For most people? Not really.

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