Essential is rolling out the January security patch for the Essential Phone The patch includes fixes for the Spectre and Meltdown security flaws Essential also confirmed Android Oreo will arrive ...

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This week we learned of major security vulnerabilities affecting nearly every current PC, server, and smartphone processor on the market as well as many released in the past decade or so. The Meltdown ...