Articles from August 2025
Browse all Windows news articles published in August 2025
Windows 11 August 2025 Patches: Recall, Click to Do, and PowerShell 2.0’s Last Stand
Microsoft closed out August 2025 with two Windows 11 updates that pack more AI into everyday tasks and quietly start pulling a decades-old scripting engine. The Patch Tuesday release KB5063878 (build...
How a Windows 11 Update Triggered SSD Panic, QLC's Density Leap, and NVIDIA's AI Rendering Pivot
A single week’s PC hardware headlines packed a handful of overlapping bombshells: a Windows 11 update that sparked panic over vanishing SSDs, a massive leap in QLC NAND density, NVIDIA’s pivot to...
uBlock Origin Vanished from Edge—Here’s the Fix and What It Means for MV2 Extensions
For a handful of hours this week, uBlock Origin—the widely trusted, open-source content blocker used by millions—simply disappeared from Microsoft Edge. The extension’s author, known as...
Microsoft’s Hidden Power Plan Eliminates Micro-Latency on Windows Workstations — Here’s How to Enable It Safely
A concealed power profile buried inside Windows 10 and Windows 11 can slash micro-latency by ruthlessly disabling energy-saving features. Known as the Ultimate Performance power plan, it first...
Microsoft's MAI Models: The First-Party AI Push to Outgrow OpenAI
Microsoft has deployed two first-party AI models — MAI-Voice-1 for speech generation and MAI-1-preview as a consumer-focused foundation model — marking a deliberate strategic shift away from...
SMB Signing Defaults, AES-256 Encryption Arrive as Microsoft Retires CIFS
Microsoft has flipped the switch on mandatory SMB signing for all outbound connections, a quiet but decisive blow against the 30-year-old CIFS dialect that still haunts enterprise networks. Windows...
Windows 11 25H2 Brings On-Device AI Agent 'Mu' and Legacy Tool Removal to Release Preview
Microsoft has seeded Windows 11 version 25H2 to the Release Preview channel, signaling that the next annual feature update is nearing finalization with a focus on stability, manageability, and...
Microsoft Copilot Now Reads and Connects Multiple Files for Free on Windows 11 and Web
Microsoft has quietly equipped its Copilot assistant with the ability to reason across multiple files at once, bringing a ChatGPT-like multi-document analysis workflow to the web and Windows 11 app...
Copilot Deep Research Slashes Literature Review Time to Minutes, Adds Enterprise Controls
Microsoft has unveiled a new Copilot capability that condenses the most grueling phase of literature reviews—the initial discovery and synthesis of sources—into a five-to-ten-minute,...
Inside Windows' Hidden Ultimate Performance Power Plan: How It Works, When to Use It, and Why It's Not for Everyone
Microsoft’s most aggressive power plan has been sitting in Windows for years, but for the vast majority of users, enabling it would be a mistake. Introduced in 2018 alongside Windows 10 Pro for...
Thunder Lizard AI Roguelike Hits 10 FPS, But Real-Time Rendering's Latency and Consistency Barriers Remain
Jeff Schomay's weekend experiment—pumping the ASCII-based roguelike Thunder Lizard through generative AI models to transform its sparse characters into photorealistic, lava-lit jungles in real...
PowerToys offers the safest key disable in Windows 11, while registry edits provide permanent, system-level blocking.
A stuck key can turn a productive day into a frustrating mess—whether it’s a Windows key interrupting your game or a phantom Alt+Shift switching languages mid-sentence. Microsoft’s own...