Massive Intel CPU Vulnerability Requires OS-Level Performance Sapping Patch

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There are conflicting reports about whether this affects the newest Intel CPUs, but it probably doesn't. That's because newer processors have been enabled with Process-Context Identifiers (PCID), which remove performance strains of the Kernel Page Table Isolation (PTI) workaround. PTI places the ...

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