Intel added two years of additional warranty coverage for its 13th and 14th Gen Core processors last week, and now it’s clarifying this will also apply to processors sold without a box to OEMs or system integrators. If you’re having crashing issues you can contact Intel if you purchased a boxed CPU, or your OEM or system builder otherwise. Intel has also supplied a list of processors that will get the warranty extension, found below.

Intel’s crashing CPU warranty extends to OEM models.

It now offers a five-year warranty on Intel’s problematic 13th and 14th Gen CPUs, just like its closest competitors. We also got a vague new statement from Dell/Alienware that suggests it might extend its own parts warranty, but doesn’t promise to do so.

CyberPowerPC has decided to hop onto the Intel-warranty-respecting bandwagon.

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Of course, Ryzen 7000 chips are now much cheaper than they were in 2022.

AMD's new Ryzen 9000 CPUs are officially up to $50 cheaper than the old 7000 series were at launch

Asus and MSI have both released beta BIOS updates today to address Intel’s crashing 13th and 14th Gen Raptor Lake desktop processors. While the BIOS updates won’t fix CPUs that are already damaged, they include Intel’s new microcode update that should help further address the instability issues.

Intel’s BIOS updates for crashing CPUs are now rolling out

It looks like we’ll be seeing Intel’s upcoming Battlemage GPUs before the end of the year. Intel reportedly held a conference with Asus today that covered everything from updates to Intel’s current instability crisis to upcoming Arrow Lake CPUs. But an interesting tidbit about Battlemage GPUs, which are gunning for a slot among the best graphics cards, is what stood out.

Intel’s highly anticipated new graphics card is releasing before the end of the year

Micron just announced an important milestone: It’s working on the world’s first PCIe 6.0 SSD, and it sure looks like it’s going to offer blisteringly fast speeds. Micron promises to deliver sequential read bandwidths of over 26GB/s — quite a feat, considering that the fastest SSDs out right now max out at 14.5GB/s.

The next SSDs may be over 80% faster

Dodge has let rip the final version of its virtual engine sound profile for its upcoming Charger Daytona electric muscle car, and it sounds like a gallon of gasoline combusting in a hot flash. The new Charger Daytona is, of course, an EV that does not burn any gas. But...

Here’s what the new Dodge Charger Daytona’s fake engine sounds like

The new Aibo Kinako Edition is the first to feature a two-tone finish on its face and will include two new eye color options. It will be officially available starting tomorrow in Japan, but Sony has also announced a ¥55,000 (about $374) price increase for its already pricey robot dog, citing the rising costs of raw materials.

Sony’s Aibo robot dog is getting a new colorway and a price hike.

Many PC gamers have been waiting with bated breath for a real non-bandaid fix for Intel 13th and 14th Gen instability issues. After months of reported problems, investigations, and workarounds, in July Intel finally said it had cracked the issue and would be rolling out a BIOS microcode fix come mid-August. It looks like the first of these are now officially rolling out from MSI and Asus.

MSI and Asus roll out first Intel instability fix for a range of motherboards with 0x129 microcode BIOS

Dell is reportedly laying off roughly 10% of its staff, more than 12,000 employees, as the company tries to become leaner and outpace the market. Dell has already begin notifying employees that they are being laid off. The company told The Register the layoffs are part of its strategy to become a leaner company.

Dell Reportedly Lays Off More Than 12,000 Staff

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The Polk County Sheriff's Office has made an arrest after conducting an investigation into a case of credit card fraud involving 28-year-old Burger King employee, Kellyn Miley. The incident was discussed in detail during this morning's briefing with Sheriff Grady Judd.

Burger King Employee Caught Using Customer's Credit Card for Food at Former Job

Based on all the leaks and Google’s own marketing, we already know that the upcoming Pixel 9 Pro Fold has a design quite similar to last year’s OnePlus Open. OnePlus doesn’t (yet) have a new foldable ready to take on the latest from Google and Samsung, so for the time being, it’s instead releasing a limited edition of the Open in a crimson red color. That’s one way to squeeze some more juice out of the thing, right?

The limited edition OnePlus Open is the most striking foldable phone yet

The Chromecast is going away after more than a decade in Google’s hardware portfolio, with the company phasing it out to make room for the new Google TV Streamer. In 2013, the timing was perfect for the Chromecast’s success. Most TVs of that era had rudimentary entertainment apps that were often slow, so beaming content from your phone to a TV made a lot of sense.

Why Google decided now’s the time to move on from Chromecast

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Adam Rich was born on October 12, 1968, lived a troubled life, and died on January 7, 2023, at only 54 years old. This is his story. He lived in the Granada Hills area of Los Angeles with his parents and younger brother. The Rich family resided for a time in Florida where Adam studied acting at the local gym.

A Look Back at the Tragic Life and Death of Former Child Star Adam Rich (TV's 'Eight is Enough')

“It is one of the great honors of my life to have worked with all of you, hit those tough writing deadlines, and shared in the joy of opening up each new issue as it arrived to see the results of all that effort,” says former Game Informer EIC Matt Miller in a long letter on Bluesky.

A last letter from Game Informer’s former editor-in-chief.

Starting today, Amazon is offering the 9th gen (2021) Apple iPad 10.2" Wi-Fi 64GB tablet for only $229. This is the best price we've ever seen for this particular model, and right now it's $70 cheaper than the newest 10th gen model. This is the most affordable iPad model you can get brand new with warranty.

Get a Brand New Apple iPad for Only $229

What’s the going rate on eBay for a wardrobe of old t-shirts, a boxed, factory-sealed, time-warp condition ATI Radeon 8500 AGP and a mostly house-trained cocker spaniel? Because I’m going to flog the lot and get me some sweet 4K OLED action. Sorry, B-dog. That’s right, folks, both...

I want a 4K OLED gaming monitor so bad and with both Alienware and Samsung’s available for $200-plus off I’m going to sell my dog, probably

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This year’s area of low oxygen in the Gulf of Mexico is larger than average, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced on Thursday. The “dead zone” is approximately 6,705 square miles , as measured last week. Within NOAA’s 38 years of measuring the dead zone, this year’s assessment marks the 12th-largest area of low to no oxygen, which can kill fish and marine life.

Gulf ‘dead zone’ larger than average, larger than expected for 2024, scientists announce

Warner Bros. Discovery has updated Cartoon Network’s website to remove basically everything and turn it into a page pointing to the Max streaming service. Before the change, the website let you watch free episodes of shows like Adventure Time and Steven Universe. The switchover appears to have happened on Thursday, Variety reports, and follows Warner Bros.’ announcement last week that it would be shutting down Boomerang, its streaming service for classic Warner Bros. cartoons.

Warner Bros. Discovery pretty much wiped the Cartoon Network website

It’s been several years since Samsung first launched its popular Frame TV lineup, and now we’re starting to see more brands release their own canvas-like designs. The latest is TCL’s newly announced 4K QLED NXTFrame TV, which has many of the features you’d expect from an “Art TV” — including a magnetic wooden frame, flush-to-wall mount, an “ultra matte” display, and various gallery modes for displaying images.

Samsung’s Frame TV is finally getting the knockoffs it deserves

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Dell and Alienware are honoring Intel’s extended warranty now too. Five year warranty on unstable Raptor Lake CPUs.

Intel recently informed us that the impacted 13th and...

Dell and Alienware are honoring Intel’s extended warranty now too. Five year warranty on unstable Raptor Lake CPUs.

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