Intel on January 22 said it had identified the root cause of unexpected reboots on updated Broadwell and Haswell chips and advised PC makers to stop deploying its mitigations for the Variant 2 attack. (zdnet.com)
The company, however, discovered that Spectre Variant 2 patches were causing unexpected reboots on its processors and eventually decided to pull the updates completely until the cause of the problem was found and fixed. (news.softpedia.com)
Many of our readers have reported unexpected reboots after updating their handsets to Oreo and Samsung has now confirmed that this is why it stopped the Galaxy S8 Android Oreo release. (sammobile.com)