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minus-square@Mihies@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglish24•3 months agoWhy are they mentioning only Windows?
minus-square@timroerstroem@feddit.dklinkfedilinkEnglish22•3 months agoPerhaps because it came from a Microsoft report. Maybe they only know of this being fixed in Windows? I would assume it’d affect all OSs but then again, I certainly do not know enough about these things to understand what’s going wrong here.
minus-square@Mihies@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglish7•edit-23 months agoThat’d be my assumption as well, but journalists better have to do better
minus-square@rmuk@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglish15•3 months ago“PCs run Windows. I have a Mac, which is not a PC.” - Average Tech Journalist.
minus-square@TheFrogThatFlies@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish13•3 months agohttps://www.phoronix.com/news/Transient-Scheduler-Attacks
minus-square@Mihies@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglish10•3 months agoThanks. So zen 5 seems fine and patch for 3 and 4 will come with a newer kernel.
Why are they mentioning only Windows?
Perhaps because it came from a Microsoft report. Maybe they only know of this being fixed in Windows? I would assume it’d affect all OSs but then again, I certainly do not know enough about these things to understand what’s going wrong here.
That’d be my assumption as well, but journalists
betterhave to do better“PCs run Windows. I have a Mac, which is not a PC.” - Average Tech Journalist.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Transient-Scheduler-Attacks
Thanks. So zen 5 seems fine and patch for 3 and 4 will come with a newer kernel.