Recently the updates released by Microsoft to combat Meltdown and Spectre have caused some boot issues for those running with certain AMD processors. (this issue is only affecting older AMD cpu's apparently)
January 3, 2018—KB4056897 (Security-only update)
January 9, 2018—KB4056894 (Monthly...
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Original release date: January 04, 2018
Systems Affected
CPU hardware implementations
Overview
On January 3, 2018, the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) became aware of a set of security vulnerabilities—known as Meltdown and Spectre— that affect modern...
New vulnerabilities have recently been discovered with modern cpu's:
It would seem Intel are more prone to attack than AMD:
Meltdown and Spectre
Microsoft have released patches which will be available via Windows update. If like me yours hasn't arrived then download the standalone...
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The latest measurements are over seven times the previously measured high—enough to fry a robot in two hours :eek:
Radiation levels recorded inside Fukushima's crippled nuclear power station are at the highest levels since its catastrophic meltdown in 2011.
Tokyo Electric Power Co. Holdings Inc...
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Jan Beranek, who is with a team of Greenpeace activists investigating the fallout from the Fukushima nuclear disaster, says Japanese are encouraged to return to their normal lives unaware of the dangers they face in the contaminated area. "I personally find it very disturbing, because on the one...
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"Fukushima Melt" A delicious new chocolate that doesn't melt in the mouth. This chocolate melts in the box before you even open it. A new nuclear powered chocolate that will melt through the bottom of the box and any flimsy shelving and will creep across the floor and deliver the chocolate to...
Nuclear fuel in three reactors at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant has possibly melted through pressure vessels and accumulated at the bottom of outer containment vessels, according to a government report obtained Tuesday by The Yomiuri Shimbun.
A "melt-through"--when melted nuclear fuel...
For the first time Japan has suggested the situation at the Fukushima nuclear plant has gone beyond a meltdown.
Japan says that nuclear fuel in three reactors has possibly melted through the pressure vessels and accumulated in the outer containment vessels.
Japanese media report this...