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Linux and Intel slowly hack their way to a Spectre patch

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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Jan 26, 2018

Fixing the chip security holes Meltdown and Spectre will take a long, long time, but Linus Torvalds and Intel developers are slowly moving to answers for Linux.

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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

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