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Intel releases more Meltdown/Spectre firmware fixes, while Microsoft unveils a new Surface Pro 3 firmware fix that doesn’t exist

Posted on February 21, 2018 at 09:01 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

You’d have to be incredibly trusting — of both Microsoft and Intel — to manually install any Surface firmware patch at this point. Particularly when you realize that not one single Meltdown or Spectre-related exploit is in the wild. Not one.

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Windows Patches/Security Firmware, Intel, INTEL-SA-00088, KB 4073119, KB 4078130, Meltdown, Spectre, Surface Pro 3

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