Microsoft has released a new batch of Intel microcode updates for Windows 10 2004, 1909, 1903, and older versions to fix hardware bugs in Intel CPUs. When Intel finds bugs in their CPUs, they release ...

AMD TLBI Erratum #1718 was worked around in CPU microcode for addressing a defect in certain Zen CPUs where the Translation Lookaside Buffer Invalidate Instruction use could lead to to stale ...

Researchers have extracted the secret key that encrypts updates to an assortment of Intel CPUs, a feat that could have wide-ranging consequences for the way the chips are used and, possibly, the way ...

Intel has released an updated microcode patch for Linux-based operating systems to address the Meltdown and Spectre security vulnerabilities. By now, everyone heard about Meltdown and Spectre, two ...

When homebrewing a CPU, one has to deal with microcode. Microcode is the low-level nuts and bolts of how, precisely, a CPU executes instructions (like opcodes) and performs functions such as updating ...

The Google Bug Hunters blog has a detailed description of how a vulnerability in AMD's microcode-patching functionality was discovered and exploited; the authors have also released a set of tools to ...

Microsoft has released a new Windows patch to disable Intel’s hardware-based mitigation for the Spectre attack due to bugs introduced by Intel’s mitigation. In the wake of the Spectre and Meltdown ...

Intel quietly updated its microcode update guidance (PDF) on 2 nd April. The last time we checked this document, back in mid-March, it was good news and Intel simultaneously revealed via a blog post ...

AMD and Google jointly disclosed a high-severity microcode signature verification vulnerability in the chipmaker's Zen CPUs after initial details inadvertently leaked last month. On Jan. 21, Google ...

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