The writing in this article was so spectacularly unclear that it warranted this update:
> Update: Intel Global Communications wants to make sure you don't think the latency issue from Intel's Puma chipset is related to the malware-infected router problem. It's not; the chipset causing lag is a big problem of its own. Also, he says the fix “is being deployed.” Hopefully it won’t take months to roll out via ISPs.
It's obvious why this article is trash - it's a shameless rewrite of two other pieces that don't really have anything to do with each other (hence that update) and awkwardly spliced together probably because someone was up against their deadline and hadn't met their word count for the week.
If you want to know about the first half of the article, go and read the original:
I'd ask the mods here to consider changing the URL in the submission/title of this post to the Motherboard one as this ComputerWorld article is low quality.
> Update: Intel Global Communications wants to make sure you don't think the latency issue from Intel's Puma chipset is related to the malware-infected router problem. It's not; the chipset causing lag is a big problem of its own. Also, he says the fix “is being deployed.” Hopefully it won’t take months to roll out via ISPs.
It's obvious why this article is trash - it's a shameless rewrite of two other pieces that don't really have anything to do with each other (hence that update) and awkwardly spliced together probably because someone was up against their deadline and hadn't met their word count for the week.
If you want to know about the first half of the article, go and read the original:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/12/03/intel_puma_chipset_f...
If you want to read about the second that the headline here talks about, reads the actual Motherboard article:
https://motherboard.vice.com/read/hacker-claims-to-push-mali...
I'd ask the mods here to consider changing the URL in the submission/title of this post to the Motherboard one as this ComputerWorld article is low quality.