Whatsapp Doc?
If you happen to be a Whatsapp user, you should stop chatting for a moment and update your client as there is a new attack which bears a remarkable resemblance to
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Tag: patch
Everybody’s flashing for the weekend, even Intel wants a little romance
If you and your Intel chips are feeling insecure, why not show them some love this Friday night and flash them with new updates? There are new updates including one to mitigate…
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Anthem Patch 1.0.4 Adds NVIDIA DLSS and Highlights Support
Patch 1.0.4 for Anthem was released by BioWare/EA today which addresses a number of issues and adds features including two specific to GeForce graphics card users, namely DLSS and NVIDIA Highlights support....
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It’s a good day to be running an AMD APU, unless you like updating iGPU drivers
Today there are patches for no less than 19 vulnerabilities on Intel graphics drivers for Windows of various flavours. Sysadmins out there should also pay attention, as there are vulnerabilities specific to…
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Incoming friendly fire! Microsoft is launching more patches!!!
The seemingly endless barrage of patches attempting to patch the issue the previous patches attempt to patch after needing a patch to patch the patch ... continues ad nauseam. If you are…
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Windows 10 someday, maybe update
The Windows 10 October Update, now to be referred to as The New ME, has now decided it dislikes the audio portion of a display driver from a tiny little company…
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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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Of Intel, Foreshadow, horses and barn doors
In a move which should not come as a shock to anyone, Intel removed the wording which was revealed yesterday along with their Foreshadow patch for desktop CPUs prohibiting publishing comparative performance…
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About time Intel thought of ME!
A bit before Christmas last year, Intel provided sysadmins with a lovely present, vulnerabilities in the on chip Intel Management Engine which you could not even tell if they had...
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The cure worse than the disease; get your new patches or enjoy a total meltdown
Wasn't it hilarious when Microsoft released a patch for the Meltdown flaw that made things even worse by allowing write access to kernel memory as well as read access? Well, if you…
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Intel Responds to Reboot Issues with Meltdown and Spectre Updates
The news will apparently get worse before it gets any better for Intel, as the company updated their security recommendations for the Spectre/Meltdown patches for affected CPUs to address post-patch...
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About that AV registry key needed for Meltdown and Spectre patches
If you are curious about the details behind the registry key that your Antivirus program needs to create in order to receive Windows Updates, The Register describes its purpose here. ...
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Meltdown’s Impact on Storage Performance – Really an Issue?
While the Meltdown announcements and patches were in full swing, I was busily testing a round of storage devices to evaluate the potential negative impact of the Meltdown patch. Much of the…
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It’s a good day to be on an AMD kernel
Intel is having a lousy day after revealing a fundamental flaw in their architecture design; one not shared by AMD chips. It turns out that many common programs are able...
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Multi-monitor gaming troubles? It might not be your driver
If you game on multiple monitors and have noticed problems recently, with screens rendering with off clipping or not a timely manner you may want to look to Microsoft. It seems that…
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Assassin’s Creed Unity: Now with Slightly Less Terrible Performance!
The latest patch (version 1.4.0) for Assassin's Creed Unity was released on Friday, and the folks at HardOCP have posted a review with their perfomance findings today. Spoiler alert: the performance...
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Windows 10 Update Installer May Break with Office Installed
These are the sorts of things that will happen in prerelease software. Gabriel Aul, leader of the Data and Fundamentals Team at Microsoft and blogger for the Windows Insider Program, announced on…
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Windows 10 December 2014 Failed Update Workaround
A few days ago, I attempted to install my Windows updates, but one failed. After complaining about the update not being accepted, it would ask you to restart your computer, where it…
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