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Intel informed Chinese companies, including Lenovo and Alibaba, of the Meltdown and Spectre flaws in its processors before the U.S. government found out from reading press reports:
Intel Corporation initially warned a handful of customers, including several Chinese technology firms, about security flaws within its processor chips, while at the same time not telling the U.S. government, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday.
Security experts told the newspaper that the decision could have allowed Chinese tech companies to flag the vulnerabilities to Beijing, giving the Chinese government opportunity to exploit them.
Jake Williams, head of the security company Rendition Infosec and former National Security Agency (NSA) employee, told the Journal that it is a "near certainty" the Chinese government knew about the flaws from the Intel correspondence with Chinese tech companies, as Beijing keeps tabs on such communications.
The Journal reported that Alibaba Group, a top selling Chinese cloud-computing services company, was among the firms notified of the flaw early on.
The NSA is more likely to spy on you than China.
Intel CEO sold shares on same day OEMs informed of bugs: report
Also at TechCrunch and Engadget.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by anubi on Tuesday January 30 2018, @09:38AM (4 children)
Azuma, I believe I have quite a different concept of God than what I have been taught. I take the Bible quite literally. And when I read "In the beginning was the Word. The Word was with God, and the Word WAS God.", I take that to mean that God is quite literally the energy, math, and physics that has ultimately manifests itself in me and all I observe.
Everything I read seems to imply to me that the purest form of studying God is to study Math and Physics.
I must do as I feel so guided. I feel something is driving me almost in the same manner as things must fall because of gravity.
Incidentally, the Bible refers to the hand of God holding the universe together, as well as numerous references to holding the sea in place. Its commonly known by another name: gravity.
I have no idea what gravity is... I have been studying electromagnetism all my life, and I still have no idea what magnetism is all about. I can only postulate on previous observations what to expect. I have no idea how all this stuff came to be, and the complexity of design I observe. Apparently I am a finite collection of atoms and molecules, and somehow self aware, but am I? Is there something in me that I can't describe to a computer? Is God "Intelligent Energy"? Is there some grand plan? Or is this all just a humongous free-running statistical state machine at play? What wound it up?
There is just too much stuff that confounds my understanding of thermodynamics and entropy. I should not be. Nothing should be. But it is. And I lack an explanation. And don't even get me started on paranormal stuff. I've had enough "night visions" that are completely inexplicable to me. Am I scared of them? No. But do I respect them? Yes.
If I do wrong things, I will cause many unpleasant things to happen to everyone. Including me.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday January 30 2018, @04:14PM (1 child)
You sound a lot like me then, though I can help a bit with gravity: near as I can make out, it's not a fundamental force the way the strong nuclear force is, but more of a consequence of matter, a second-order phenomenon. I've suspected for a long time that matter, energy, space, and time (entropy, not just time as we measure it) are mostly different forms of the same thing, and that the natural/supernatural and mental/physical distinctions are false dichotomies. With you on the "paranormal" stuff too, though again, I think it's just "normal we don't have a word for."
The Bible isn't describing the sort of God we follow, though. I've spent years researching ANE mythology; Yahweh is another tribal God like Marduk or Ba'al, and he's had 2,500+ years of philosophy grafted onto him. This explains why the Abrahamic religions are all so completely schizophrenic.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1) by anubi on Wednesday January 31 2018, @06:25AM
Thanks... we are definitely on the same page. I respect the spirit, but reject the interpretations others try to implant, especially if they are gonna pass plates.
I feel I get played for a fool in church just as many of us get played for a fool by not understanding how our stuff works. We leave ourselves wide open to being taken advantage of for someone else's benefit. Like having some webmaster knowingly running javascripts behind our back that we would never run if WE were making an informed decision of what it would do when run.
It would not be the first time I have been played for a fool.
These guys are masters of invoking fear, uncertainty, and doubt. And we humans are about as vulnerable to that kind of psychological malware as an unpatched Windows box on the web.
I respect you highly - for researching the ancient near-east records to find out for yourself. How is trying to get to the bottom of things without involving people ( known to be inaccurate as hell, and sometimes mean and deceitful as well ) a sin?
Your observation about "matter, energy, space, and time (entropy, not just time as we measure it) are mostly different forms of the same thing" is the same as my take on it as well... the word I use for "thing" is "God". That is what I respect and worship. Its in everything and everyone.
A golden calf is exactly that, no more, no less - as well as any other manmade symbol of worship. I may as well worship a toilet and maybe get a little use out of it.
If money is the root of all evil, why are the preachermen always begging for it?
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday January 30 2018, @07:29PM (1 child)
I take the Bible quite literally. And when I read "In the beginning was the Word. The Word was with God, and the Word WAS God.", I take that to mean that God is quite literally the energy, math, and physics that has ultimately manifests itself in me and all I observe.
The Bible literally doesn't say that, though. I literal interpretation is that God actually is a word. A figurative translation is that he's actually all that other stuff despite the Bible saying otherwise.
(Score: 1) by anubi on Wednesday January 31 2018, @06:28AM
I translated "WORD" as "information-energy". Well, closest thing I could conceive of going to English.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]