Neowin News Feed for: Freeze

Patch Tuesday nightmare continues: Certain Windows apps will freeze during use

Usama Jawad — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 15:32:01 +0000

Microsoft's latest Patch Tuesday update (KB5074109) continues to wreak havoc, by now breaking applications like Outlook that interact with cloud storage services such as OneDrive. Read more...

After making job offers worth millions of dollars, Meta stops AI hiring

Usama Jawad — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 09:42:01 +0000

Meta has triggered an AI hiring freeze, likely because of investor concerns over the multi-million dollar expenditure involved in building the Superintelligence team. Read more...

Dev explains how to fix Ghost of Tsushima patch 2.19 lags, freezing issues

Sagar Naresh Bhavsar — Thu, 02 May 2024 06:00:01 +0000

The Patch 2.19 for Ghost of Tsushima released on April 30, has reportedly broken the game resulting in freeze, lag, and rendering issues on PS. Thankfully, the developers have fixed the issue. Read more...

AMD fixes a driver timeout issue that led to BSOD, system freeze on Windows 10, Windows 11

Sayan Sen — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 06:50:01 +0000

AMD has fixed a major Radeon display driver timeout issue that led to the bug report tool popping up. While this is great news, sadly the bug fix does not apply to the entirety of Radeon cards. Read more...

Some Galaxy S10 devices are reportedly freezing after the latest update

Jay Bonggolto — Mon, 27 May 2019 18:44:01 +0000

Multiple Galaxy S10 users have reported that their devices are having issues that cause the phones to freeze, with no immediate solution right now. The problem also affects third-party apps. Read more...

New CSS-based vulnerability crashes iPhone, freezes Microsoft Edge, Safari, and IE

Usama Jawad — Sun, 16 Sep 2018 09:28:01 +0000

A CSS-based web vulnerability has been found that crashes iPhones and freezes various browsers including Microsoft Edge, Internet Explorer 11, and Apple's Safari when an a webpage is rendered. Read more...

Ubuntu systems also having boot-up issues due to Meltdown and Spectre patches

Muhammad Jarir Kanji — Wed, 10 Jan 2018 19:50:01 +0000

Users of the Ubuntu are also reporting issues with the patches aimed at mitigating the Meltdown and Spectre CPU exploits, with some systems having boot-up issues after installation. Read more...

Microsoft's Spectre fix is apparently causing boot-up issues in some AMD PCs [Update]

Usama Jawad — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 09:14:04 +0000

It appears that Microsoft's Spectre fix is bricking some AMD PCs, making them freeze on the Windows logo animation during boot-up. Microsoft is yet to comment on the issue affecting numerous PCs. Read more...

T-Mobile iPhone users are seeing random restarts and the blue screen of death

Vlad Dudau — Thu, 25 Jun 2015 06:10:01 +0000

iPhone users on T-Mobile are seeing big problems with their handsets as the Apple devices have started to randomly freeze and display the blue screen of death, which is quickly followed by a restart. Read more...

Apple Releases Fix for iMac Freeze Issue, fix not enough

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 18:51:55 +0000

In recent months, some users were experiencing freezing problems with their iMacs, apparently due to faulty drivers used for the included ATI Radeon HD graphics cards. Apple aimed to fix the issue by the end... Read more...

Apple Acknowledges That Some iMacs Freeze Up

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 22:48:14 +0000

Apple has acknowledged receiving complaints about software update 1.1, issued September 13, that has resulted in iMacs freezing up during normal use, and said it would issue a fix as soon as possible. The update... Read more...

Microsoft unveils Freeze Dry for Windows Vista

Fri, 02 Sep 2005 10:18:22 +0000

Windows Vista will include a new technology known as Freeze Dry designed to maintain application states and unsaved documents even when patches are automatically applied and PCs are rebooted. Speaking at the Australian Tech Ed... Read more...

Anti-identity theft freeze gaining momentum

Thu, 05 Aug 2004 14:31:32 +0000

Little by little, a weapon against identity theft is gaining currency -- but few people know about it. It's called the security freeze, and it lets individuals block access to their credit... Read more...

MS takes $1.1bn 'hostage' to freeze Lindows out of CA

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 28 Nov 2003 20:45:01 +0000

Microsoft is holding up compensation claims from a quarter of million Californians in order to punish Lindows.com, and to coerce the class action plaintiffs "into siding with Microsoft against its Lindows competitor," according to a... Read more...

WMP9 Fix: Video May Freeze In Multiple Monitor Scenario Fix

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 04 Jun 2003 11:12:38 +0000

The information below applies to Windows Media 9 series for Windows XP, 2000, ME, 98 SE. When a client tries to play back video content on a non-primary monitor, either no video is rendered and... Read more...

Microsoft patches XP laptop freeze

Mon, 05 Nov 2001 11:36:11 +0000

Microsoft has issued a software patch that will reanimate frozen notebook PCs running Windows XP. The patch, according to Microsoft's Web site, resolves a problem affecting notebooks based on Intel's Pentium III processor and 440MX... Read more...