While you’re shopping online for Black Friday today, do yourself a favor and update Chrome. On Thursday, Google began rolling out a new stable channel update for the Chrome browser on Windows, Mac, and Linux to patch a zero-day exploit that exists in the wild. If you haven’t already, check and make sure your browser…
A new Ryzen Chipset Driver update was released yesterday, version 3.08.17.735, that patches “critical security flaws” in the Platform Security Processor driver. AMD has not revealed the exact details of the security flaws that were patched, but we presume they could be related to a couple of current AMD flaws. Right now, AMD has two…
According to a Tweet from Amazon’s New World dev team, New World will be receiving a patch today that will cap FPS in the menu screen to prevent more RTX 3090’s from dying due to “overutilization” of the GPU. Please read this message regarding recent concerns with graphics cards hardware. pic.twitter.com/L1gNeBBPQSJuly 21, 2021 See more…
Yesterday, Microsoft patched a major vulnerability within multiple Windows versions known as the “PrintNightmare” exploit, allowing attackers to execute malicious code remotely through the Windows Print Spooler service. The update patching this vulnerability is called KB5004945 and should be installed as soon as possible if your Windows 10 PC or device is connected to a…
(Image credit: Shutterstock) It might be time to put away the popcorn. Phoronix today reported that Linux developer Greg Kroah-Hartman reverted 37 patches associated with the University of Minnesota (UMN), which he banned from contributing to the kernel in April. This came via a pull request to Linux 5.13 Release Candidate 3 (5.13-rc3) submitted on…
The University of Minnesota isn’t making any friends in the Linux community. Phoronix reported that Greg Kroah-Hartman, the Fellow at the Linux Foundation responsible for stable releases of the Linux kernel, has banned the University from contributing to that kernel after two students purposely added faulty code to it. The students in question published a…
