It still comes with the Intel ME. All they did is remove some binarys. No modern Intel computer including this one will start and run for more than 30 minutes without the Intel ME. This is purely marketing speak, they do not know what the binarys they removed did and the ME might just as well be fully functional with all security risks associated with that.

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So why wouldn't I just buy a Das Keyboard [External Link] instead. Looks much more customizable, more standard and it comes with a german keyboardlayout. Its Software is also free [External Link].

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: SirLootALot

Quoting: PopeRigby

Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoThis is why we need another player in the x86 CPU market: Nvidia

I'd love to see RISC-V be a viable desktop architecture. We need fully open source CPUs to help with security issues like this.

For now PowerPC is your best bet. It is the only 100% open architecture, that is usable today and properly performant. Risc-V on regular consumer computers probably won't happen until we reach the year of the Linux desktop.

What about ARM stuff? Could that move up the food chain?

While it is possible to build a ARM-computer without blobs the ARM architecture is not free. So you could not build and design your own CPU, Chipset and Mainboard-circuitry without ARM licenseing it to you and I am only aware of one [External Link] commercially available ARM computer, that is 100% FLOSS. This used to be the case fore PowerPC too but since the competition from Risc-V is here you can now build your own PowerPC without the need for IBMs blessing.

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Quoting: PopeRigby

Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoThis is why we need another player in the x86 CPU market: Nvidia

I'd love to see RISC-V be a viable desktop architecture. We need fully open source CPUs to help with security issues like this.

For now PowerPC is your best bet. It is the only 100% open architecture, that is usable today and properly performant. Risc-V on regular consumer computers probably won't happen until we reach the year of the Linux desktop.

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Quoting: SirLootALotSo if it is just a new way to exploit previously known speculative execution vulnerabilitys, is it really a new attack?

A new way to use something existing, is still new, especially when it has only just now been publicly announced. So yes, it's new.

Should have worded that differently. You are right it is obviously a new attack but the vulnerability stays the same afaik. If I disable speculative execution or were to somehow magically fix all the spectre attack-vectors this would not be an issue. This is just how to utilize the vulnerabilitys if I understand correctly. That's what i wanted to say.

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Got Slay the Spire on the humblebundle. Love it. Very addictive.

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So if it is just a new way to exploit previously known speculative execution vulnerabilitys, is it really a new attack?

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I could not resist. I finally got HoI IV just for the Kaiserreich mod. Also picked up two more games just to save money lol.

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I got that humble bundle just for Slay the Spire. Very addictive.

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