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Microsoft rolls back buggy Patch Tuesday update, Spotify hikes prices, May Games with Gold

April 26, 2021

Hi folks! Here's the April 26 edition of the newsletter.

Microsoft has rolled out a fix that should revert the gaming performance impact of the last Patch Tuesday update, KB5001330. It's using a relatively new method to fix known issues, too.

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint has been enhanced using advancements in Intel Threat Detection Technology to detect cryptojacking attacks via machine learning heuristics based on CPU telemetry.

Spotify is e-mailing premium users in the UK and other regions to let them know that prices will increase from April 30. Existing customers will start paying the new prices in June instead of May as a thank you. Read more...

In collaboration with Spotify, Facebook is introducing a miniplayer that'll allow people to play music and podcasts from within the Facebook app. The feature is available on both iOS and Android.

Microsoft is preparing to kick off the May Games with Gold waves, and today it announced the free games Xbox Live Gold and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers will gain during the upcoming month.

Microsoft has published a detailed advisory, recommending customers to keep their Exchange Server instances updated at all times and to plan maintenance windows to apply security patches.

Apple has announced $430 million in U.S. investments over the next five years. With this money, it hopes to create 20,000 new jobs, improve areas around the country, and invest in education.

AMD's 21.4.1 Adrenalin driver that launched recently has a lot of new and cool features. The new driver apparently also reduces the power draw of the latest Radeon GPUs by a ton when not gaming.

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