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What happened to the story about Microsoft's Intel Spectre Patch?

Tue Jan 30, 2018 9:14 am

There was a story post yesterday on TR about MS patching the Intel Spectre patch, but now it's gone. What's up with this? I emailed Jeff. I don't ever recall stories suddenly disappearing like that. Other sites (ZDNet, Tom's Hardware) have posted the story as well.
 
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Re: What happened to the story about Microsoft's Intel Spectre Patch?

Tue Jan 30, 2018 9:18 am

It's certainly still on our front page: https://techreport.com/news/33172/optio ... itigations
 
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Re: What happened to the story about Microsoft's Intel Spectre Patch?

Tue Jan 30, 2018 9:19 am

What we have today is way too much pluribus and not enough unum.
 
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Re: What happened to the story about Microsoft's Intel Spectre Patch?

Tue Jan 30, 2018 9:25 am

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Re: What happened to the story about Microsoft's Intel Spectre Patch?

Tue Jan 30, 2018 9:36 am

Aargh, my bad, my bad. Never mind, destroy this post. I better get new glasses.
 
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Re: What happened to the story about Microsoft's Intel Spectre Patch?

Tue Jan 30, 2018 10:53 am

Oh dear, you're right! I just checked and it even vanished from the database and all our backups. It's a conspiracy!
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Re: What happened to the story about Microsoft's Intel Spectre Patch?

Tue Jan 30, 2018 11:07 am

tootercomputer wrote:
Aargh, my bad, my bad. Never mind, destroy this post. I better get new glasses.

Before you do that, have you checked whether there's a patch available for your eyeballs? Maybe it's just a software issue; you might be able to save the cost of buying new hardware.
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Re: What happened to the story about Microsoft's Intel Spectre Patch?

Tue Jan 30, 2018 11:09 am

Tell me, are you seeing Spectres? Because you just had quite the Meltdown.
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Re: What happened to the story about Microsoft's Intel Spectre Patch?

Tue Jan 30, 2018 12:17 pm

morphine wrote:
Tell me, are you seeing Spectres? Because you just had quite the Meltdown.


...and people speculate that I'm crazy...
 
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Re: What happened to the story about Microsoft's Intel Spectre Patch?

Tue Jan 30, 2018 3:44 pm

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Re: What happened to the story about Microsoft's Intel Spectre Patch?

Tue Jan 30, 2018 3:47 pm

Sorry, we had to delete that news piece too. We'd get black helicopters coming in otherwise.
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Re: What happened to the story about Microsoft's Intel Spectre Patch?

Tue Jan 30, 2018 3:48 pm

no "adjust Spectre-cles" puns? Our standards are slipping...
 
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Re: What happened to the story about Microsoft's Intel Spectre Patch?

Tue Jan 30, 2018 5:43 pm

Shobai wrote:
no "adjust Spectre-cles" puns? Our standards are slipping...

In-Spectre Clouseau must be on the job.
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