Intel Downfall News Today

After looking earlier today at the most viewed AMD Linux/open-source stories of 2023, here's a look at the other side of the table with the most popular Intel content on Phoronix for the past year with my daily open-source and Linux focused coverage.

Feature development on GCC 14 is now largely over with today marking the start of their stage three of development that is the 'general bugfixing mode' and moving past new features for this next annual GNU Compiler Collection release.

Following the release of Debian 12.1 in July, Debian 12.2 was released this weekend to incorporate all of the latest security fixes and other stable back-ports for Debian 12 Bookworm.

During the third quarter on Phoronix were 689 original Linux/open-source news articles and another 50 Linux hardware reviews / benchmark articles

Last month the Downfall CPU security vulnerability was disclosed that impacts various AVX/AVX-512 workloads.

Both mainstream and server-class processors from Intel are on the list of affected chips.

With the Intel Downfall vulnerability made public last week (also known as GDS - 'Gather Data Sampling') there can be a sizable hit to AVX workloads making use of the GATHER instructions

Following the new Linux stable kernels this week to quickly mitigate the Intel Downfall and AMD Inception vulnerabilities, today brings another set of stable point releases

There is a serious security flaw in billions of Intel CPUs that can let attackers can steal confidential data like passwords and encryption keys. Firmware updates can fix it, but at a potential significant performance loss.

As soon as the AMD Inception CPU vulnerability was made public yesterday, the Linux kernel mitigation patches were merged and within hours appeared in six new stable point releases for the kernel along with the Intel Downfall mitigation patches