[ramshorns]

Looks like it does roughly the same thing as this [1]. I guess it's a tossup between a proprietary program from Intel or a free program on github from the person who found the bug.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14335159

[a3_nm]

The Intel program pops a weird license when you download it, but the files themselves, to my surprise, are not proprietary: they are dual-licensed under the BSD license and GPLv2 license.

[dfc]

For what it is worth I think Maksim Malyutin from Embedi was the person that found the bug. MJG is the author of the check.

[ramshorns]

My mistake. I mistook his blog post discussing it [1] for an initial announcement of it, even though it links to an Intel announcement.

https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/48429.html

[orblivion]

I figure Intel already owns my machine. I may as well go with them.