Asus is the first OEM to release BIOS updates for its range of Z790 motherboards. The latest beta BIOS includes Intel’s new microcode fix to address stability and crashing issues with its 13th and 14th Gen processors. This won’t fix chips that are already damaged, though. You’ll need to swap your CPU, with Intel or a PC maker, if it has degraded.
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CrowdStrike blamed testing software for taking down 8.5 million Windows machines last month, but now a full root cause analysis offers more details. The main issue was a mismatch between the input fields expected by CrowdStrike’s Falcon driver and the ones supplied in a content update. CrowdStrike is now promising to better test updates and is using two independent third-party software security vendors to review its sensor code and release processes.
[crowdstrike.com]
Microsoft is adding Activision’s Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy to Xbox Game Pass on console, cloud, and PC on August 8th. Mafia: Definitive Edition is also being added to the service on August 13th. Crash Bandicoot is the latest Activision game to arrive on Game Pass, after Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III and Diablo IV.
Intel added two years of additional warranty coverage for its 13th and 14th Gen Core processors last week, and now it’s clarifying this will also apply to processors sold without a box to OEMs or system integrators. If you’re having crashing issues you can contact Intel if you purchased a boxed CPU, or your OEM or system builder otherwise. Intel has also supplied a list of processors that will get the warranty extension, found below.
Multiple Azure services, including Azure DevOps, are down right now. The root cause appears to be a bad firewall configuration, according to sources at Microsoft. “This issue is impacting multiple geographies, mostly in North America and Latin America,” says Microsoft’s official Azure status page. These latest issues come less than a week after a configuration changed caused a similar Azure outage in Europe.
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