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Intel says the firmware updates it developed to help protect users against Meltdown and Spectre flaws are causing stability problems in its newest chips.

On Wednesday, the head of Intel's data center group, Navin Shenoy, said that the firmware updates were causing problems with Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Skylake and Kaby Lake, which are the codenames of its latest-generation chips .

"While the firmware updates are effective at mitigating exposure to the security issues, customers have reported more frequent reboots on firmware updated systems," Shenoy said in a blog post.

Those security issues are a trio of connected, speculative execution flaws in microprocessors known as Spectre and Meltdown (see Meltdown and Spectre Forecast:...

Boeing says that a malware outbreak affected a small number of systems but did not disrupt production. Some media reports have said the malware is WannaCry ransomware.

"Our cybersecurity operations center detected a limited intrusion of malware that affected a small number of systems," the Chicago-based company says in a statement released Wednesday. "Remediations were applied, and this is not a production or delivery issue."

Boeing, which is the world's largest aerospace company, claims some media reports are "overstated and inaccurate" but the company did not specify what was incorrect.

Citing an unpublished memo written by Mike VanderWel, the chief engineer at Boeing's Commercial Airplane unit, The Seattle Times reports that hit...

Panera Bread acknowledged a data leak on Monday, but says fewer than 10,000 customers were affected. The leak appears to have persisted for at least eight months, despite the company having been warned about the problem last August. And the exposed database appears to have included information on more than 7 million customers, meaning the breach could be much larger than Panera Bread claims.

Information security blogger Brian Krebs reported that the leak's finder, security researcher Dylan Houlihan, recently alerted him to the problem. Krebs writes that after he contacted Panera Bread with an inquiry, the company briefly took its website offline, apparently to attempt to fix the problem.

The leaked data appears to include a raft of...