Neowin News Feed for: Faulty

The Windows 10 October 2018 Update is now blocked for some Intel PCs due to faulty drivers

Usama Jawad — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 08:22:01 +0000

Microsoft has blocked the Windows 10 October 2018 Update for some Intel PCs due to problems caused by Intel's accidental release of display drivers which "turned on unsupported features in Windows". Read more...

Apple is replacing faulty hard drives on some of its 27-inch iMacs

Andy Weir — Mon, 22 Jun 2015 10:32:01 +0000

Apple has launched a free replacement program after discovering that "a very small number of 3TB hard drives" sold with its 27-inch iMacs "may fail under certain conditions". Read more...

Microsoft must pay, says Nokia, after Mexico court ruling on faulty handsets

Andy Weir — Wed, 01 Oct 2014 09:42:01 +0000

Nokia says that Microsoft is now liable to pay compensation to customers who bought faulty handsets from the Finnish company, after a court ordered that Nokia Mexico pay damages to those customers. Read more...

Nokia Mexico ordered to pay damages to customers over faulty handsets

Andy Weir — Mon, 29 Sep 2014 09:46:01 +0000

A Mexcian court has ordered Nokia to pay damages to customers who purchased handsets that were later found to be defective - and owners of these faulty devices can still register for compensation. Read more...

Apple, Sony sued over faulty batteries

Steven Parker — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:01:53 +0000

Apple and Sony are being sued by a Japanese couple for shipping defective batteries. Sony says this is the first lawsuit regarding its defective batteries. Many vendors were affected by this matter when ten million... Read more...

Microsoft fixes faulty security patch

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 19:20:09 +0000

Microsoft on Thursday issued a "hotfix" for a fault in a security patch designed to correct a flaw already being targeted by worms. The company is making the hotfix, or repair code targeted to a... Read more...

AMD Replacing Faulty Opteron Chips

Fri, 28 Apr 2006 18:43:14 +0000

Advanced Micro Devices is trying to track down and replace as many as 3,000 faulty Opteron processors that could produce "inconsistent results" under an unusual circumstance. The potential problem affects a number of single-core... Read more...

Apple Cinema Displays have faulty LCD panels

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 17 Nov 2004 11:40:02 +0000

THE FLAGSHIP Apple line of Cinema Displays is shipping with faulty LCD panels, it has emerged. Most acutely affected appears to be the 23-inch line, which can exhibit a strong pink or yellow hue across... Read more...

IBM Patches Faulty ActiveX Controls

Tue, 22 Jun 2004 22:53:20 +0000

IBM today released patches for eGatherer 2.0.0.16 and acpRunner 1.2.5.0. If these controls are left un-patched an attacker could "write malicious files anywhere on a computer's hard disk via a special Web page". ... Read more...

RealPlayer security fix is faulty

Tue, 26 Nov 2002 22:20:04 +0000

Thankz Mark! for sending this news That nemesis of application security, the buffer overrun, has found its way into media players from RealNetworks. Three similar, though separate, flaws in RealPlayer (and... Read more...

Seiko Epson named as faulty Nokia display supplier

Mon, 06 May 2002 13:53:03 +0000

Industry sources have named Seiko Epson as the manufacturer that supplied Nokia with faulty components that led to a high screen failure rate amongst its handsets. Nokia was instructed by the NSW... Read more...