[michaelermer]

Google's post is newer and has more insights, the registry article is now outdated.

[ece]

The register has more details. Worth a read.

[olliej]

the google site has the actual white papers detailing the attacks.

[ece]

The register has the tweet with actual code for spectre, and more details from the manufacturers and potential fixes. Seriosuly? They're both worth a read.

[lern_too_spel]

I think the point is that your quoted section of the reg article is not correct according to the new information from Google.

[ece]

@lern_too_spel

The AMD engineer could be right if talking about Ryzen, and/or he isn't mentioning user-user and user-kernel boundaries.

AMD isn't affected in nearly the same way as Intel/ARM are: https://twitter.com/ryanshrout/status/948683677244018689