Digital Trends

How the Blue Screen of Death became your PC’s grim reaper

There’s nothing more startling than your PC suddenly locking up and crashing to a Blue Screen of Death. Otherwise known as a Blue Screen, BSOD, or within the walls of Microsoft, a bug check screen, ...
TechCrunch

Windows killed the Blue Screen of Death

You’re laughing. Windows killed the Blue Screen of Death and you’re laughing. Yes, the iconic Windows error screen is getting a makeover nearly 40 years after its ...
Forbes

Windows 11 Update Fiasco: Microsoft Confirms Blue Screen Of Death. Here’s What To Do

Have you seen the dreaded Blue Screen of Death on your Windows 11 PC since installing an update? You’re not alone, and Microsoft has now confirmed the problem. It did so in a support document, spotted ...
Forbes

Microsoft Didn’t Kill Blue Screen Of Death, But What’s Coming May Be A Problem

You know the drill: out of nowhere you see a screen that tells you your Windows device has hit “a problem and needs to restart.” It’s known as the Blue Screen of Death and recently it was thought that ...
Dark Reading

ClickFix Campaign Serves Up Fake Blue Screen of Death

Threat actors are using the social engineering technique to deploy the DCRat remote access Trojan against targets in the hospitality sector.
The New York Times

:( Microsoft’s ‘Blue Screen of Death’ Is Going Away

The blue screen that stressed computer users for more than three decades is giving way to a black one. By Sopan Deb For millennials, blue can be a significant color. It is associated with clues left ...
Digital Trends

Windows’ infamous blue screen of death is changing

The infamous Blue Screen of Death — oft-shortened to BSOD — is changing, and many fans aren’t happy with its new look. While seeing the BSOD was never a good thing, the long-time version displayed a ...
NPR

Microsoft Windows' iconic blue screen of death is being retired

Business Microsoft Windows' iconic blue screen of death is being retired June 27, 20255:08 PM ET Heard on All Things Considered By ...
CNN

Microsoft is retiring the infamous ‘blue screen of death’

The dreaded “blue screen of death” that has tormented millions of Windows users for decades is being put to rest. Microsoft is ditching the notorious feature that appears on Windows computers in the ...

Hackers use 'Blue Screen of Death' malware to target victims

This script downloads the malware and other malicious tools, disables Windows Defender, and displays the real booking website to throw the victim off. There doesn’t seem to be a specific name for the ...
MacRumors

Apple Mocks Windows PCs in Humorous New 'Blue Screen of Death' Ad

Apple today shared a new "Blue Screen of Death" ad that appears to mock a major Windows computer outage that occurred last year, following a faulty CrowdStrike security update. Macs were unaffected, ...