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Nvidia has released a display driver hotfix to address recently reported high CPU usage and blue screen issues on Windows 10 and Windows 11 systems. As the company explains, the GeForce Hotfix Driver Version 531.26 fixes higher CPU usage from NVIDIA Container that could be observed after exiting games and random bug checks on some laptop models.
Nvidia confirmed today that it's working to fix a driver issue causing high CPU usage and blue screens of death on Windows systems. The buggy driver is the GeForce Game Ready 531.18 WHQL driver released on February 28th that introduced support for RTX Video Super Resolution.
Nvidia fixed more than two dozen security flaws in its GPU display driver, the most severe of which could allow an unprivileged user to modify files, and then escalate privileges, execute code, tamper with or steal data, or even take over your device. In total, the chipmaker patched 29 vulnerabilities affecting Windows and Linux products, including 10 high-severity bugs.
NVIDIA has released a security update for its GPU display driver for Windows, containing a fix for a high-severity flaw that threat actors can exploit to perform, among other things, code execution and privilege escalation. The latest security update addresses 25 vulnerabilities on the Windows and Linux GPU drivers, while seven flaws are categorized as high-severity.
NVIDIA has acknowledged performance issues affecting systems with NVIDIA GPUs after installing the Windows 11 22H2 Update. The official fix for this known issue is to update the company's GeForce Experience software suite to the 3.26 Beta version, which addresses the problems.
The Windows 11 22H2 feature update released earlier this week is reportedly causing gaming performance issues on systems with NVIDIA GPUs. As detailed in reports shared across several online platforms and on Microsoft's online community, some users experience stuttering and massive lag while playing games due to what looks like significant drops in CPU usage after installing the Windows 11 2022 Update.
NVIDIA has released a security update for a wide range of graphics card models, addressing four high-severity and six medium-severity vulnerabilities in its GPU drivers. The security update fixes vulnerabilities that can lead to denial of service, information disclosure, elevation of privileges, code execution, etc.
NVIDIA has published the source code of its Linux kernel modules for the R515 driver, allowing developers to provide greater integration, stability, and security for Linux distributions. The products supported by these drivers include all models built on the Turing and Ampere architecture, released after 2018, including the GeForce 30 and GeForce 20 series, the GTX 1650 and 1660, and data center-grade A series, Tesla, and Quadro RTX. According to the GPU maker, this is a step toward improving its products' experience on the Linux platform, simplifying the integration process in Linux distributions, debugging, and boosting contribution activity.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced Friday that it settled charges against multinational tech firm NVIDIA for "Inadequate disclosures" of cryptomining's impact on its gaming business. Settled charges are linked to NVIDIA's failure to disclose that much of the company's gaming sales were boosted by cryptomining, with customers increasingly using NVIDIA GPUs to mine for cryptocurrency starting with 2017.
Nvidia's ultra-dense GPU-driven AI training and inference systems are prone to covert and side channel attacks, according to research just published from a team led by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Let's start with the good news: the problems are most pressing for pre-Ampere GPU generation DGX machines and luckily, the major cloud operators have made the DGX switch to Nvidia Ampere-generation DGX machines.