Special bug for those who really want to keep using Windows 7
A bunch of sites are reporting that a bug is preventing some Windows 7 users from shutting down. As far as I can tell, while the bug first arose about a...
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For some, password fields which refuse to accept a space as a valid character is enough to raise their blood pressure noticeably, they should probably stay away from macOS 10.15.1, politely known…
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I see your wireless password is early adopter
WPA3 is a year old and it seems it has a few flaws which still need to be ironed out, though it can still offer better protection than WPA2. The Inquirer describes…
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New GeForce Driver Fixes Performance Issue: Threadripper 2990WX Tested
Earlier today, NVIDIA released version 399.24 of their GeForce drivers for Windows, citing Game Ready support for some newly released games including Shadow of the Tomb Raider, The Call of…
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Ryzen Locking on Certain FMA3 Workloads
Last week a thread was started at the HWBOT forum and discussed a certain workload that resulted in a hard lock every time it was run. This was...
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Gigabyte adds full GIMPS and Prime95 compatibility to Skylake processors
Gigabyte has released UEFI updates today which will resolve the freezing issues on Skylake seen in certain circumstances of Prime95 and GIMPS processing. Just head over to their download...
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Is it better to freeze or give bad results? Skylake and complex math need to learn to get along
You may remember the infamous Pentium FDIV bug, which could cause the wrong decimal results to be given in an answer to complex mathematical calculations which caused much consternation among scientists in…
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Fallout 4 can get confused if you aren’t a gun toting yahoo
The Fallout series has never been pacifistic, the isometric originals could allow you to become a drug addicted slave trader however they did not used to be so linear as Fallout 4…
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Running an EXT4 RAID on the Linux 4.0 kernel? Better spray for bugs!
On Tuesday a bug was discovered to have been introduced to Linux 4.0 kernel when a fix was added to deal with RAIDs where the chunksize not a power of 2, a…
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Samsung 840 / 840 EVO susceptible to flash read speed degradation over time
** Edit ** (24 Sep) We have updated this story with temperature effects on the read speed of old data. Additional info on page 3. ** End edit...
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SandForce finally patches elusive 2200 series SSD controller bug. OCZ issues firmware, others soon to follow.
Over the past few months, we had noted a seemingly disproportionate surge of negative reports from users of SandForce-2200 based SSD's. These include OCZ's Vertex and Agility 3, Corsair's Force...
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