AMD ships microcode update to disable some branch prediction
This is all getting rather silly, right? I was the first one to mock Richard Stallman for being too radical, dramatic and paranoid but I can now confirm he wasn't. Every word he said in last 15 or so years is true.<p>This all simply makes all our IT related work just kids playing make-pretend security.<p>I am literally trying to figure out what other processors exist that can be used in everyday BSD/Linux work. Sparc? Some ARM branch? Any suggestions welcome.