Articles from August 2025
Browse all Windows news articles published in August 2025
Brad Smith Pledges Independent Investigation After Azure Surveillance Allegations Surface
Brad Smith, Microsoft’s president, has personally pledged to launch an externally supervised investigation into how the company’s Azure cloud services may have been used by Israeli military...
Windows Server Security: BeyondTrust's 10-Year Report Uncovers Recurring RCE and EoP Threats
A decade of Microsoft security bulletins reveals a stubborn truth: the same handful of vulnerability classes keep hammering Windows Server environments, and defenders who ignore these patterns do so...
Windows 11 KB5063878 Triggers UAC Prompts for Signed MSI Patches, Disrupting University Labs with Error 1730
Microsoft’s August 12, 2025 cumulative update for Windows 11 24H2 (KB5063878, build 26100.4946) has retroactively broken a decades-old application deployment pattern, forcing per-user MSI repairs...
King Slashes 200 Jobs—Laid-Off Staff Say They Trained the AI Now Replacing Them
Roughly 200 employees at Candy Crush studio King were told their jobs are at risk in early July, and multiple internal sources claim the very AI tools they helped build are now being positioned to...
41% of Workers Are Overwhelmed by AI Expectations—Here’s How Peer Networks Can Turn the Tide
Nearly half of employees say learning to use artificial intelligence at work feels like another full-time job, and 41% are overwhelmed by the pace of change. A career expert says the most powerful...
Microsoft Defender Achieves Top Lab Scores, Smart App Control Makes Paid Antivirus Optional
Microsoft Defender has quietly evolved into a security platform that outperforms many paid antivirus suites in independent lab tests—and now it packs an execution control feature called Smart App...
VLC 3.0.23 Adds Dark Mode and AV2 Decoder: Here Are 9 Open-Source Apps Every Windows Setup Needs
VideoLAN’s VLC media player just received its 24th update to the 3.0 branch, bringing a dark mode option for Windows and Linux, native ARM64 support for Windows, and a massive number of stability...
Windows 10 19045.6276 Preview Delivers Backup GA, ESU Controls, and a 2026 Secure Boot Wake-Up Call
Microsoft has pushed Windows 10 build 19045.6276 (KB5063842) to the Release Preview channel, delivering a small but strategic update that signals the general availability of Windows Backup for...
As Microsoft Unveils AI-Powered Semantic Search, Windows 11 Pro Licenses Plummet to $15
Microsoft is injecting its Windows 11 operating system with a powerful dose of AI at the exact moment third-party vendors are flooding the market with Windows 11 Pro licenses for as little as $15....
MSI Cubi NUC AI 2MG Tested: Intel Core Ultra 7 258V, Arc Graphics, and AI NPU in a 0.8-Liter Skeleton
MSI has begun shipping its Copilot+ certified Cubi NUC AI 2MG mini PC, and early hands-on testing reveals a palm-sized desktop that pairs Intel’s latest Core Ultra 200-series silicon with an...
Stop Blindly Running 'python --version' on Windows: A Complete CMD Guide
A missing python --version response in Windows Command Prompt can stall a project before it even starts. Whether you're setting up a fresh environment or debugging a legacy script, knowing exactly...
KB5064080 Mends Broken Explorer Views and Brings Backup to the Enterprise
Microsoft shipped an optional preview cumulative update for Windows 11 23H2 in the Release Preview Channel that tackles a string of reliability bugs—from File Explorer showing only a single folder...