Articles from August 2025
Browse all Windows news articles published in August 2025
CISA Flags Urgent Patches for Exploited Citrix Session Recording and Git Flaws
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added three vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog on August 25, 2025, signaling active exploitation of flaws...
Screenvision Executes 12-Week Multi-Cloud Shift to Azure and OCI, Powering Cinema Ad Modernization
Screenvision Media, one of the largest cinema advertising networks in the United States, has completed a high-speed migration of its core business systems to a dual-cloud architecture spanning...
Windows 10 ESU Enrollment Opens: Free Options and $30 Bridge to 2026
Microsoft has quietly flipped the switch on a consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) program, giving individual users three distinct enrollment paths to keep receiving critical security patches...
YouTube Secretly Altered Shorts Using Machine Learning—Now an Opt-Out Is on the Way
YouTube’s quiet experiment to polish Shorts clips with machine learning has ignited a firestorm among creators who say the platform altered their work without permission—and without disclosure....
Protests and Arrests at Microsoft HQ as Azure Surveillance Claims Prompt External Audit
Redmond, Washington — Microsoft’s campus became the scene of a dramatic confrontation this week as employee-led protesters occupied public spaces, splashed red paint on the company’s iconic...
Microsoft Unveils Two Free Ways to Keep Windows 10 Secure Until 2026
Windows 10 users gained two completely free paths to an extra year of security patches today, as Microsoft opened a consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) program that also accepts Microsoft...
September 2025 Update Brings Default OOBE Quality Patching to Windows 11 — Here's How to Manage It
Microsoft will begin installing Windows quality updates during the out-of-box experience (OOBE) by default for eligible Microsoft Entra-joined and Entra-hybrid-joined devices running Windows 11,...
KB5063878 Update Sparks SSD Corruption and Streaming Failures: A Complete Guide to Uninstall and Mitigation
Phison has confirmed it is investigating reports of SSDs disappearing or becoming permanently inaccessible after heavy file transfers on Windows 11 systems running Microsoft’s August cumulative...
Inside Musk's Macrohard: The AI Agent Factory Taking Aim at Microsoft's Empire
Elon Musk has fired a trademark salvo that is both a joke and a declaration of war. On August 1, 2025, an entity linked to Musk filed for the word mark MACROHARD with the United States Patent and...
August 2025 Windows Updates Break NDI Streaming; Microsoft Urges RUDP Workaround
Live production crews and streamers are scrambling after Microsoft’s August 2025 cumulative updates inflicted severe stuttering, lag, and choppy audio on NDI-based video transport—a critical...
The Hidden 7 GB Windows 10/11 Reserves for Updates — and How to Get It Back
If you’ve ever wondered why your 128 GB SSD seems to run out of space faster than expected, a Windows feature called Reserved Storage might be the culprit. Microsoft quietly reserves up to 7 GB of...
Windows 11’s ‘God Mode’ Master Control Panel: The Hidden Shortcut That Saves Power Users Dozens of Clicks
A single hidden folder name unlocks a comprehensive index of over 200 Windows settings, administrative tools, and troubleshooting utilities — and it has been hiding in plain sight for more than a...