Cybersecurity pros get an early Christmas gift from Microsoft
Vole gives a manageable patch Tuesday
In a rare show of seasonal goodwill, software king of the world Microsoft appears to have played Santa Claus to cybersecurity professionals this December, delivering a Patch Tuesday that’s more “calm winter’s evening” than a “frenzied snowstorm.”
December's Patch Tuesday triggers errors in Windows Server
Problems creating virtual machines
Microsoft says Windows Server updates released during December's Patch Tuesday trigger errors when creating new virtual machines on some Hyper-V hosts.
God of War gets AMD FSR 2.0 support with the latest patch
A couple of bug fixes as well
The latest v1.0.12 patch for the PC version of God of War brought support for AMD's FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) 2.0 technology, as well as fixes a couple of other bugs in the game.
Patching vulnerabilities is useless
The “Thoughts and Prayers” of the IT industry
Patching of vulnerabilities is the security industry's equivalent of sending “thoughts and prayers” to solve global catastrophes, according to a US security expert.
Microsoft’s first 2022 patch Tuesday was pants
Too much pain for users and admins
Microsoft's first Patch Tuesday for 2022 was so bad it appeared to have been written by the software genii at Apple.
Intel fixes something it said fixed six months ago
Dutch researchers found Intel's patch only fixed some of the issues
Chipzilla has issued a patch for some processor vulnerabilities which were supposed to have been fixed in an earlier patch it released six months ago.
Microsoft kills off Spectre patch
Your computer is safe from the Intel patch, it is just insecure again
Microsoft has released an emergency Windows update to disable Intel's troublesome microcode fix for the Spectre Variant 2 attack.
Intel warns about installing its chip patch
Torvalds was right - Intel is a chicken with its head cut off
A day after Linus Torvalds warned that Intel’s patching for a severe security flaw on its chips was “garbage”, Intel has warned users not to upgrade.
Latest Ghost Recon Wildlands patch improves performance
Better multi-GPU, quad-core CPU and AMD GPU support
The latest patch for Ghost Recon Wildlands promises to significantly improve performance on the PC, especially for multi-GPU, quad-core CPU and systems based on AMD GPUs.
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided gets a new patch
Brings DirectX 12 support and some fixes
Nixxes has now released an official PC patch for Deus Ex: Mankind Divided which fixes some critical bugs as well as bringing DirectX 12 support for new GPUs.