Not sure why it was marked as a dupe, but IMO the poster should have included (2020) in the title to make it clear that this isn't breaking news from today. This article does provide value in explaining what's in the dump (plus the old tweet is no longer available) so maybe @dang will re-up[0] it later on.
Does your aunt know how to apply bios updates? And that's assuming such updates are available at all. I searched up various Z170 (released mid 2015) chipset motherboards, and the bios updates seem to end around early-mid 2018. That works out to around 3 years of patches. It's therefore reasonable to assume that if any exploit was discovered today, any systems 3+ year old are sitting ducks.
Are we talking about the same thing here? Microcode updates might be delivered through windows update but is ME updates delivered through that? Or is it through bios updates?
My aunt probably isn't running a corporate machine that would HAVE the IME in it. It's a business-oriented feature that is part of the chipset, not the CPU.
I've definitely seen Windows update push firmware updates but that was on a Surface so not sure if it's a first-party only thing or if any OEM can use that channel.
I’m curious about the legal state of any academic research that would be done on top of these leaks. If I recall correctly some of the details of the exact workings of atomic instructions and cache coherence protocol are not publicly documented and had to be discovered empirically. Would be fun to confirm some of these findings and settle some old arguments through direct inspection of the design.
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[ 0.21 ms ] story [ 44.5 ms ] threadAt the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24074588
0: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#second...
This is the leak from last August, not a new one.