David William Plummer, a former Microsoft software engineer who developed Windows Task Manager, has posted a video describing how the CrowdStrike update could have caused Windows to halt. He described CrowdStrike Falcon as anti-malware for Windows servers, which “proactively detects new attacks” and analyses application behaviour. To do this, CrowdStrike needs to run as a…
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Nvidia might be revamping a past-gen laptop GPU with a current-gen chip, or at least this is what some clues that have just been aired suggest.The theory is that there’s a new ‘RTX 3050 A’ mobile graphics card, with the ‘A’ suffix indicating this is a fresh flavor of the GPU which uses an AD106…
Intel provided a statement earlier this week on the instability problems with 14th-gen and 13th-gen CPUs, but some further details have come to light since then – including a clarification that any damage done to high-end CPUs is permanent.In case you missed it, Intel’s previous announcement pinned down ‘elevated operating voltage’ as a key cause…
AMD’s delay of the launch of its Ryzen 9000 processors – with the CPUs already shipped being recalled from retailers and PC makers – could apparently be due to a simple typo, if you can believe the (multiple) reports floating around out there.Well, we say a simple typo, but this isn’t a mistake with the…
Intel might have a pair of Battlemage GPUs ready to tempt gamers away from AMD or Nvidia at the lower-end of the market, a new leak would have us believe.Going by shipping manifests uncovered by hardware leaker Harukaze5719 on X, Battlemage X2 and X3 graphics cards are incoming.BMG X2BMG X3https://t.co/O5v3Tl1Wno pic.twitter.com/lr8uD3bCCzJune 29, 2024These will have…
We may be waiting longer than expected for the AMD Radeon RX 8000 series, according to the latest leak about the next-gen graphics cards.As spotted by Tom’s Hardware, prominent hardware leaker Kepler has claimed in a post on X that Team Red won’t be revealing its RDNA 4 GPUs until CES 2025 at the earliest.We’re…
Intel Lunar Lake CPUs for laptops look set to get a nifty capability which has been previously leaked, one that PC gamers will be keen to see realized – and others besides.This is the adaptive sharpening filter that was spotted earlier this year, a feature for Lunar Lake’s Xe2 integrated graphics (Battlemage). As we explained…
Intel’s Arrow Lake processors may not arrive until the very end of 2024, if a new rumor is right.This one comes from regular hardware leaker HXL as shared on X in a very brief statement that informs us that Arrow Lake sales won’t kick off until December.In case you were wondering, ARL-S refers to Arrow…
AMD’s next-gen Ryzen CPUs built on Zen 5 are imminent for laptops (codenamed Strix Point, known as Ryzen AI 300) and desktops (Granite Ridge, Ryzen 9000) and we now have rumored release dates for both ranges which are coming next month.Tom’s Hardware observed that various sources have aired the launch dates, meaning when the CPUs…
With AMD’s Zen 5 CPU architecture only a month away from its first product releases, the new CPU architecture was placed front and center for AMD’s prime Computex 2024 keynote. Outlining how Zen 5 will lead to improved products across AMD’s entire portfolio, the company laid out their product plans for the full triad: mobile,…
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