Episode 160: Meltdown, Spectre and you; more iPhone battery talk

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4.3 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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This week on the AppleInsider podcast, Mike and a special guest discusses the three-pronged attack against modern CPUs, continues the iPhone battery debacle debate, delves into the $16 billion Spotify copyright lawsuit, and talks about the iMac Pro.Support AppleInsider Podcast

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0:00.0	You're listening to Space...
0:02.0	Wait a minute.
0:03.0	You're listening to the Mac in and...
0:05.0	No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
0:07.0	Oh, that's right.
0:08.0	We put on our Pirate suits and took over another ship.
0:11.0	You're listening to the Apple Insider Podcast, episode 154.
0:15.7	We be Pirates with colds. So our voices are a little braggy.
0:21.2	A eo, the lemique. little bracky. I don't know. Do not adjust your sets.
0:29.0	This is Mike Worthy and Charles Martin on the Apple Insider Podcasts for the first week of 2018 and
0:36.2	what a week it has been.
0:38.1	This is my longtime partner in crime, Charles Martin, over from Macanendend days, believe it or not.
0:44.0	And let's just get into it and we'll talk about other things later.
0:47.0	Let's first start talking about Intel's CPU flaws and other manufacturers.
0:52.0	So starting on Tuesday the register published an account of how
0:56.1	Intel CPU is dating back to around 1995 or so were subject to an exploit which would allow
1:02.2	someone who had specifically crafted code to maliciously steal data out of kernel ramp.
1:08.0	I knew we should have promoted that guy to general.
1:10.0	Well, sure.
1:11.0	Intel didn't say anything until late Wednesday about it and their
1:15.3	statement is just kind of bizarre. I'm going to pull it up really quickly here and
1:18.8	read you some key words and tricky phrases out of that. 23 years later.
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