If you have a Ryzen-powered PC, you may want to check out the latest non-security update, as it promises to deliver significant performance uplifts for free.
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AMD came under some heat recently as a result of its poor showing with the Zen 5-based Ryzen 9000 series desktop CPUs. However, the company says that a performance patch is coming soon.
Remember the Spectre CPU vulnerability that reared its head for the first time in 2017? Variant 2 of Spectre is back, and as such, Microsoft has published guidance about the mitigation.
AMD has shared details about a Spectre Variant 2 vulnerability that affects almost all AMD Ryzen, Athlon, and EPYC systems. The security flaw is patched in the latest Patch Tuesday updates.