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minus-squarearefx@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up30·edit-211 months agoRyzen gang My 7800x3d is incredible, I won’t be going back to Intel any time soon.
minus-squareRakonat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·11 months agoMe who bought AMD cpu and gpu last year for my new rig cause fuck the massive mark up for marginal improvement on last gen stats.
minus-squareFades@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down18·11 months agoResearchers discover potentially catastrophic exploit present in AMD chips for decades
minus-squareLeadersAtWork@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·edit-211 months agotldr: Flaw can give a hacker access to your computer only if they have already bypassed most of the computer’s security. This means continue not going to sketchy sites. Continue not downloading that obviously malicious attachment. Continue not being a dumbass. Proceed as normal. Because if a hacker got that deep your system is already fucked.
minus-squareBlue_Morpho@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-211 months agoIt’s more serious than normal because if your PC ever gets owned, a wipe and reinstall will not remove the exploit. “Nissim sums up that worst-case scenario in more practical terms: “You basically have to throw your computer away.””
minus-squareCaptain Aggravated@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoOkay, so what gets permanently “owned?” The BIOS on the motherboard, the CPU? is the GPU also hosed?
minus-squareBlue_Morpho@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 months agoThe CPU is hosed. I assume the throw away is in reference to laptops or mini PCs where the CPU isn’t socketed.
minus-squarearefx@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·11 months agoYeah the Intel issue is definitely a bigger problem. Imo.
minus-squarearefx@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up4·11 months agoI’m not that worried about it effecting me lol, i would be more concerned about my intel cpu dying, especially since it’s been around for decades.
Ryzen gang
My 7800x3d is incredible, I won’t be going back to Intel any time soon.
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Me who bought AMD cpu and gpu last year for my new rig cause fuck the massive mark up for marginal improvement on last gen stats.
Researchers discover potentially catastrophic exploit present in AMD chips for decades
tldr: Flaw can give a hacker access to your computer only if they have already bypassed most of the computer’s security.
This means continue not going to sketchy sites.
Continue not downloading that obviously malicious attachment.
Continue not being a dumbass.
Proceed as normal.
Because if a hacker got that deep your system is already fucked.
It’s more serious than normal because if your PC ever gets owned, a wipe and reinstall will not remove the exploit.
“Nissim sums up that worst-case scenario in more practical terms: “You basically have to throw your computer away.””
Okay, so what gets permanently “owned?” The BIOS on the motherboard, the CPU? is the GPU also hosed?
The CPU is hosed. I assume the throw away is in reference to laptops or mini PCs where the CPU isn’t socketed.
Yeah the Intel issue is definitely a bigger problem. Imo.
I agree.
I’m not that worried about it effecting me lol, i would be more concerned about my intel cpu dying, especially since it’s been around for decades.