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Telegram adds 70 million users over WhatsApp outage; Windows 11 install could fail - and AMD CPUs see up to 15% performance hit

Telegram adds 70 million users over WhatsApp outage; Windows 11 install could fail - and AMD CPUs see up to 15% performance hit

October 06, 2021

Wednesday October 6.

Twitch suffers massive data breach, sensitive details leaked — www.neowin.net

Twitch has reportedly been the target of a massive data breach. The publicly leaked data contains encrypted credentials, source code for some software, and payout details related to popular streamers.

AMD processors hit by performance issues on Windows 11, patch on the way

AMD has said that its CPUs are taking a performance hit on Windows 11 systems and that it has teams working on the issues. Patches should be released later this month through Windows.

Your Windows 11 install could fail with 0x8007007, 0x800F0830 errors but there may be fixes — www.neowin.net

Users are reporting that Windows 11 installs are failing on their systems with error codes that read "0x8007007f" or "0x800F0830 - 0x20003". Luckily, there seems to be an easy fix for the first one.

Telegram gained 70 million new users during WhatsApp outage on Monday

Telegram founder, Pavel Durov, has revealed that the platform saw 70 million new users sign up during the WhatsApp outage that struck on Monday. WhatsApp and Facebook were offline for several hours.

Google to host a Pixel event on October 19 at 10 a.m. PT — www.neowin.net

Google has announced its next Pixel event stating that it will take place on October 19 at 10 a.m. PT. It will showcase the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro and unveil pricing for these devices.

New Edge Dev build adds voice typing support on Windows 11 and more

Edge Dev version 96.0.1032.0 is now rolling out with a few new features such as support for voice typing on Windows 11, improvements to moving tabs across profiles, and a bunch of bug fixes.

Mozilla releases Firefox 93 with AVIF image support

Mozilla has released Firefox 93 with AVIF image support, SmartBlock 3.0, warnings against insecure downloads and performance improvements. Your installation should automatically update to Firefox 93.