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Finally Intel caved in after falling stock price and a lot of negative press with failing CPUs and instability issues on consumer CPUs. Intel officially announced in a statement to Tom's Hardware that, it will be extending warranty for all Intel consumers or customers with 13th and 14 gen CPUs affected by the instability issues that could be caused due to oxidation and faulty microcode that delivers more power than requested by CPU which slowly degraded and caused unexpected crashes.

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A boutique Law Firm, Abington Cole + Ellery is investigation a potential class lawsuit against unstable intel 13th and 14th gen CPUs. While Intel promised a microcode fixes and replacement for affected users. However users are worried about delays and RMA service experiences about CPU swaps with potential downtime and delayed work.

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Microsoft had a nine hour long outage due to massive Denial of Service (DDoS) attack disrupting Azure services such as Entra, Office 365, Purview and other services.

I'll add the excerpt from Azure’s Incident Report below.

While the initial trigger event was a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack, which activated our DDoS protection mechanisms, initial investigations suggest that an error in the implementation of our defenses amplified the impact of the attack rather than mitigating it. Once the nature of the usage spike was understood, we implemented networking configuration changes to support our DDoS protection efforts, and performed failovers to alternate networking paths to provide relief.

Microsoft said they noticed usage spikes in Azure Front Door (AFD) and Content Delivery Networks (CDN) causing intermittent errors, latency issues and timeout errors. Microsoft said it will release Preliminary Post-Incident Review (PIR) within 72 hours and a Final Post-Incident Review within the next two weeks with additional details and lessons learned from this week’s outage.

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• Bleeping Computer Article

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Laptops or Notebook with AMD Strix Point based on Zen 5 Architecture is now out. Asus has two models with 13.3 inch and 16 inch variants called ProArt PX13 and Zenbook S16 priced at 3200 USD and 2300 USD respectively.

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According to close sources of Bloomberg, Intel has decided to layoff 10,000 employees to save $10 Billion globally by 2025. It is reported that Intel has around 110,000 employees and after layoffs it would be 100,000. This excludes subsidiaries such as Altera FPGA and others.