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Consumers should immediately visit www.HP.com/go/batteryprogram2018 to see if their battery is included in the recall and for instructions on how to enable “Battery Safety Mode” if their battery is included in the recall. The website provides consumers instructions on how to initiate the validation utility to check their battery and what to download if their battery is included in the recall. These batteries are not customer-replaceable. HP will provide free battery replacement services by an authorized technician.

Source: HP Recalls Batteries for Notebook Computers and Mobile Workstations Due to Fire and Burn Hazards

Google has just published details on two vulnerabilities named Meltdown and Spectre that in the company’s assessment affect “every processor [released] since 1995.”

Source: Google: Almost All CPUs Since 1995 Vulnerable To “Meltdown” And “Spectre” Flaws

Other OSes will need an update, performance hits loom

Source: ‘Kernel memory leaking’ Intel processor design flaw forces Linux, Windows redesign

Apple is putting a lot of stock in the ability of their PR department to manage their latest scandal.    It takes a Machiavellian Genius to come up with the preposterous excuse that their latest cpu-throttling scandal was done for purely noble reasons.  Wow.  Even if this were a new blunder for Appl

Source: CPU Throttling — A Perfect Scandal for Right to Repair — The Repair Association

The plaintiffs claim that Apple’s iOS updates “were engineered to purposefully slowdown or ‘throttle down’ the performance speeds” older iPhones.

Source: Apple sued in Chicago for slowing down older iPhones