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Subject: VMware pulling Intel specter patches
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 09:18:47 -0800
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Might we be jumping the gun with updated firmware in devcpu-data?

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/7qjnfx/vmware_pulled_spectre_pat=
ches_on_friday/

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