Almost unfixable “Sinkclose” bug affects hundreds of millions of AMD chips
Almost unfixable “Sinkclose” bug affects hundreds of millions of AMD chips
Worse-case scenario: "You basically have to throw your computer away."
Man Intel really is paying off a lot of journalists to smear AMD while they are dealing with their rotting chips right now
Why is this downvoted? Isn't ArsTechnica a trusted tech news site? It is not controversial even if it has a neolib/neocon leaning -I can never tell the two apart-.
I can never understand why people would downvote someone sharing a news story.
After reading that whole article I feel no more enlightened.
They mentioned secure boot, is secure boot part of the exploit or does the exploit invalidate secure boot?
Because if I understood it right, it will be presented at DEFCON tomorrow, this news are just hyping it.
We don't know what is the install vector, it might be a non issue (for regular people) where you need a custom chip programmer and hands on the hardware
The wired article mentions kernel access to be sufficient.
Assholes, they won't fix Ryzen 3000s even if they still sell them - just bought a brand new boxed 3400g