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durandal_1707 said:

Wow, this seems like a great idea. Enjoy Meltdown and Spectre.

Enjoy your 20% slower computer.

Depending on workload naturally, but the microcode changes to resolve Spectre variant 2 have can significantly degrade performance.  Intel are advising customers that future processors with fixes for Spectre will have the 'feature' disabled by default and it should only be enabled discretionally by the customer.  Crazy.  
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/22/intel_spectre_fix_linux/

Better battery life on cellular - then AW4 may be my first.  I've had every iPhone since the first -  I'm really disappointed with the latest trend to offer iPhones in "Enormous", "Gigantic" and "OMG it's huge!".   I currently use an SE - but I'm dissapointed that it's spec'd and targeted as a budget device. Smaller is better people.  Maybe the AW is just the smallest phone Apple make - I could pair it with their cheapest phone and after setup just leave the phone in the drawer.  But for this to work the AW needs better cellular battery life. 

I run a small IT company and we recently stopped google advertising.  Purely by coincidenc - google then demoted our place in their non-paid search results.  Which clued me in to the fact that all their results are now in fact paid advertising- and rarely the 'best' result at all.  So I switched to using Duck Duck Go for my searching and the results are almost always better (though a few times I've had to resort to dial up google search manually to satisfy my conscience that I haven't missed something...).

To me it sounds like internal compliance found a problem with firmware updates.  i.e.: the 'malicious' firmware update was created by Apple, and successfully installed on a Super Micro device - proving therefore that it's possible to install 'untrusted' firmware.  i.e.: the complaint isn't about malicious firmware, it's about super micro devices accepting untrusted firmware.