I just had a hard crash/reboot on a Dell running Windows 10 on an AMD processor, followed by a couple of auto updates. There was no indication of updates being available before the crash.
Intel Security Issue Update: Addressing Reboot Issues
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#12“We have received reports from a few customers of higher system reboots after applying firmware updates.” What does higher mean here?
Means whoever typed that can't write.
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#13I think it's a bit ironic that the text, in a sense, blames Google for these problems by calling them the "Google Project Zero Exploits" as if Google was some sort of cyber crime syndicate using their evil powers to exploit intel.
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#14I think it's hard to see how this will affect Intel in the long term.
When Samsung phones were blowing up, I thought that was it, but somehow people kept preferring the phones.
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#15“We have received reports from a few customers of higher system reboots after applying firmware updates.” What does higher mean here?
more frequent
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#16This is -- to say the least -- frustrating. First, the busted microcode is still available on the Intel Download Center[1], without any warning that they recommend that you not, in fact, install it. Second, the press release is still being evasive: they have not merely "received reports"; they in fact know that it's causing issues, and the press release is avoiding the much stronger language that Intel is giving priv…
Why should they bother communicating clearly with their customers? Who are those customers going to turn to? AMD? ARM?
Between Intel's numerous CPU bugs that they refused to refund customers for and ME, it's crystal clear what Intel thinks about their customers.
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#18Well this promises to be fun, especially for cloud providers (and those running instances on the cloud, who now potentially get to suffer through host instability)
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#19“We have received reports from a few customers of higher system reboots after applying firmware updates.” What does higher mean here?
As in more reboots than they had been experiencing before applying the updates
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#20This is -- to say the least -- frustrating. First, the busted microcode is still available on the Intel Download Center[1], without any warning that they recommend that you not, in fact, install it. Second, the press release is still being evasive: they have not merely "received reports"; they in fact know that it's causing issues, and the press release is avoiding the much stronger language that Intel is giving priv…
if you're going to make the accusation that they're lying, at least provide a source - near as I can tell they are being as transparent as is reasonable.
bcantrill is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_Cantrill
If he is saying that Intel is giving other advice privately then you are welcome not to believe him (and note that it is you who is using the much stronger term "lying" here).
Personally I think un-sourced statements from him are worth listening to.