A recent incident highlights the importance of using AI carefully and responsibly. The AI went Admin-mode and installed a bunch of updates that it could never reboot from.
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The first Windows 11 24H2 Insider build was eventful as it brought many new features and improvements while also confirming a shift in CPU ISA support. The next one builds on top of it.
Microsoft began adding ReFS Windows bootability support early last year. While some progress was gradually being made over the course of the year, the needle hasn't moved much since around August.
Microsoft has issued a workaround for a bug that is triggering BSODs on startup fails on Windows Server 2022 virtual machines on VMware ESXi. It notes that EPYC systems with IOMMU, VBS are affected.
Microsoft recently rolled out Patch Tuesday for the month and it is plagued with issues, which is often the case. VMware has confirmed that it breaks Secure Boot on Server leading to boot failures.
Ventoy, which is a tool similar to the extremely popular Rufus, recently added bypass for Windows 11 system requirements in a previous version. The latest update fixes an issue related to that bypass.
VMware confirms its Carbon Black EDR is causing Windows systems to crash at boot with a BSOD or run into boot-loops, which impacts over 50 companies. Thankfully, a workaround is also provided.
On some Dell PCs, including desktops and notebooks, the latest firmware update from the company seems to be causing various issues like BSODs, boot loops, and boot failures, among others.
AMD's Secure Memory Encryption (SME) feature will remain disabled by default in future Ryzen-based Linux PCs. That's because the feature has been found to be very problematic on some of those systems.
Microsoft has acknowledged and fixed a bug with the chkdsk error-checking utility on Windows 10 versions 2004 and 20H2. The bug corrupted SSDs, leading to blue screens and boot failures.
