So there is some report up about Meltdown/Spectre like vulnerabilities in Ryzen chips.... except it's dodgy as hell.
A site called AMDflaws.com, with no ownership information, who put up a youtube video with comments disabled, a site that is a couple of weeks old, based in Israel (a strong Intel area with Intel investing billions there) have published a report about supposed Spectre like vulnerabilities. In these situations the standard industry procedure is to wait at least 90 days between telling a company about security risks and disclosing them publicly, Spectre/Meltdown was given closer to 7-8 months, this site published this report 24 hours after giving it to AMD.
On the idea that it's 'Spectre like' which is a hardware vulnerability that can't be fully fixed and could be exploited via things like Javascript in a browser, these potential vulnerabilities even under their suggestion is something that requires a bios flash on site to take advantage of so it's not anywhere near the same level of vulnerability as Spectre/Meltdown, not even close.
That this comes from 'Intel country', on a dodgy website with no names involved, standard security procedure completely ignored, this all screams of fake of rehashing the explained vulnerabilities in the security chip that have been previously patched in a more dramatic way. The thing to me is this sounds like way way too late to fight back against Meltdown/Spectre, is something new coming to hit Intel shortly and this is a Intel hatchet job trying to lessen another massive security hit they are going to take shortly?
Everything about this story screams hatchet job.
