When he's not battling bugs and robots in Helldivers 2, Michael is reporting on AI, satellites, cybersecurity, PCs, and tech policy.

AMD explains that a correction for an fTPM error has been available for years. Manufacturers just don't deliver it. AMD has been providing corrected firmware updates ...

Have you encountered any strange stutters throughout your performance on Ryzen and Windows 10/11?? The lag is most likely due to hardware issues rather than issues with Microsoft's user interface. AMD ...

Have you been noticing random performance stutters, slow loading and other issues on AMD Ryzen-powered Windows 10 or 11 machines? AMD has revealed that they could be caused by issues with the firmware ...

AMD has published an official advisory that explains why Ryzen CPUs have been stuttering on Windows 10 and 11 systems. Aside from that, the firm has also provided a workaround and more. For a month or ...

Motherboard manufacturers are addressing AMD's stuttering issue in Windows 10 and 11 with a new BIOS update. The (intermittent) performance losses and stuttering are caused mostly by the TPM 2.0 ...

In recent weeks, select Windows 10 and 11 users with an AMD CPU have reported stuttering issues. AMD has now confirmed the bug and identified the Firmware Trusted Platform Module (fTPM) as the reason ...

If you haven't been keeping up with Windows news, Windows 11 is really trying to be tough on security. As part of that push, one of its major requirements is that your system must have a Trusted ...

In brief: AMD earlier this year identified an issue causing headaches for select Ryzen CPU users in Windows 10 and Windows 11. The chipmaker promised a fix was in development and now, it's starting to ...

AMD has confirmed that some Ryzen CPUs can stutter when the fTPM module onboard the chip is activated. The company is working on a fix, but it won’t arrive until “early May” or possibly later, ...