Unlike driver updates, BIOS releases typically arrive far less often—usually when vendors add support for new CPUs, but also occasionally to improve stability and performance, or to address security ...

HP ProBook customers are not happy with the recent firmware update, version 1.17, which is seemingly bricking and killing devices. An HP repair technician allegedly blamed Microsoft's Windows Update.

HP announced today it was stopping the deployment of BIOS updates containing Meltdown and Spectre patches and reissuing older BIOS versions. HP's announcement comes after Intel issued an update to its ...

Dell and HP have heeded Intel's advice and stopped deploying BIOS updates carrying its buggy patch for the Spectre attack. HP, the world's biggest PC maker, has updated its advisory for the Meltdown ...

As Intel, AMD, and other CPU manufacturers have started releasing CPU microcode (firmware) updates for processor models affected by the Meltdown and Spectre patches, those updates are trickling down ...