There have been many reports, especially with MacBook Air and other laptop owners, where the Mac OS X "kernel_task" process takes up a large amount of CPU when checked in Activity Monitor. When this ...

If the reports are accurate, it appears that Intel might have a pretty severe chip-level security bug on its hands that cannot be simply swatted away with a microcode update. The bug affects all ...

(Editor’s Note: Intel has now provided a list of the affected processors, as well as when it first learned of the problem.) Intel said Thursday that by next week, the company expects to have patched ...

A significant redesign of the Windows, MacOS, and Linux kernels is needed to patch up an Intel processor security flaw. Modern Intel processors from the past decade are affected by the flaw. Exact ...