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No need to sign up for LastPass beta anymore if Android Oreo has already made it to your device. The password manager has started rolling out autofill to the stable app for Google's latest mobile platform, according to the company's director of engineering, Anatoly Ivasyuk . If you've already been testing for LastPass , though, take note that you won't be able to uninstall the beta version of the app yet. The service is slowly rolling the feature out to the public channel to be able to catch any early issues that may arise before they make it to most users' devices. Ivasyuk added that the company hopes to eventually be able to use the normal beta channel to test new features, so you wouldn't have to install a separate app. For now, you'll just have to wait for the feature to make it to the stable version of the manager on your device. That is, unless you're still waiting for Oreo itself to hit your phone. Source: Anatoly Ivasyuk (Google+) via Eng...

Your personal computers will be less than 10 percent slower after you install the Spectre/Meltdown fix, Intel has revealed in a blog post . Intel has come to that conclusion after assessing the performance changes in computers using 6th, 7th and 8th Generation Intel core processors with Windows 10. Systems equipped with 8th generation (Kaby Lake, Coffee Lake) chips and SSDs will be the least affected, with the expected impact being less than 6 percent. Devices using the 7th Gen Kaby Lake-H mobile processors will be around 7 percent slower, while the performance impact on systems with the 6th Gen Skylake-S platform is approximately 8 percent. Depending on how you use your computer, you may not even notice a difference. Based on Intel's benchmark results , though, you will notice some slowdown if use browse the web and use applications, and it's safe to say that most people do. Obviously, if you use your computer for heavy applications, the slowdown will be more noticeable. A...