CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity company behind a massive IT outage that affected millions of Windows machines, has revealed that a bug in its own internal code-testing software allowed faulty code to be released, causing widespread blue screens of death. The bug, which missed problematic data within a new update to the company’s Falcon Sensor software, led to an ‘out-of-bound memory read’ that triggered critical boot failures.
A bug in the Windows Cross Device Service in the latest Windows 11 Insider build is causing high CPU usage, even when idle. Microsoft has acknowledged the issue but has not yet released a fix. Users have reported CPU usage as high as 20%, leading to overheating and fan noise. Disabling the service offers a temporary solution, but it may re-enable itself after a reboot.
Apple has released an update to fix a strange bug that caused deleted photos to reappear on iPhones and iPads. The issue was first reported after the release of iOS 17.5 last week, and Apple has not publicly commented on it. However, the company’s engineers quickly worked to identify and resolve the problem. The fix came in the form of update 17.5.1, which was rolled out to iPhones and iPads on Monday. Apple’s release notes for the update state that it “provides important bug fixes and addresses a rare issue where photos that experienced database corruption could reappear in the Photos library even if they were deleted.”
