JUST IN: ACCC alleges Google mislead consumers over Android location data handling Top Linux developer on Intel chip security problems: ‘They’re not going away.’

From zdnet.com

Greg Kroah-Hartman, the stable Linux kernel maintainer, could have prefaced his Open Source Summit Europe keynote speech, MDS, Fallout, Zombieland, and Linux, by paraphrasing Winston Churchill: I have nothing to offer but blood sweat and tears for dealing with Intel CPU’s security problems. 

Or as a Chinese developer told him recently about these problems: “This is a sad talk.” The sadness is that the same Intel CPU speculative execution problems, which led to Meltdown and Spectre security issues, are alive and well and causing more trouble.

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