Microsoft just released several updates aimed at helping protect Surface devices from the two security vulnerabilities exposed by CPU bugs. The two bugs, nicknamed Meltdown and Spectre, affect almost every device made in the past 20 years, including AMD, ARM, and Intel systems and processors.

Installing the newest patch is one of the main ways users can protect themselves from Meltdown and Spectre. The support article about the new updates by Microsoft states that the company is also aware of how the vulnerabilities could impact its cloud services and has attempted to secure them.

For now, there aren’t any confirmed attacks on Microsoft customers exploiting the vulnerabilities. “Microsoft has not received any information to indicate…

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