Articles from August 2025
Browse all Windows news articles published in August 2025
48 Windows 11 Keyboard Shortcuts to Supercharge Your Productivity: A Real-World Guide from ZDNET
Keyboard shortcuts have long been the secret weapon of power users, but a new guide from ZDNET distills 48 Windows 11 keystrokes into a practical productivity system that promises to save you hours...
Google Gemini's New Agent Mode, Go, and Immersive View Leak in Testing—Here's What They Do
Google is quietly testing three new experimental modes inside the Gemini web app that could fundamentally change how users interact with the AI assistant. Code-sleuths at TestingCatalog discovered...
New Open-Source AppLockerGen Tool Promises Easier XML Policy Editing — But Beware the Pitfalls
Windows administrators and security engineers struggling with the arcane XML syntax of AppLocker policies have a new ally: AppLockerGen, an open-source Streamlit-based graphical editor that promises...
Microsoft Copilot's 'Study and Learn' Mode Emerges in Code, Hinting at a Built-In AI Tutor
Microsoft is testing a new “Study and Learn” mode inside Copilot, early code traces reveal, adding a dedicated learning companion to the assistant’s mode picker alongside Quick, Think Deeper...
ChatGPT Enterprise Dominates 2025 Enterprise AI Chatbot Market as Google Makes Gemini Free for Workspace
OpenAI’s ChatGPT Enterprise has captured 82% of the global chatbot market share in 2025, maintaining its grip on the enterprise AI sector even after Google shook up the landscape by including its...
SSD Vanishing Act: Windows 11 KB5063878 Sparks Data Corruption Fears
The August 12, 2025 cumulative update for Windows 11 (KB5063878) is triggering a dangerous storage regression: under sustained heavy write workloads, some solid-state drives abruptly stop responding,...
Microsoft Transforms NFL Sidelines with 2,500 Copilot+ PCs and Real-Time AI Analysis
More than 2,500 Surface Copilot+ PCs are heading to NFL sidelines this season, marking a decisive shift in the league's decade-long relationship with Microsoft. The partnership, once defined by...
GNOME 48.3 Drops Nautilus Crash Fixes and Pango Font Wins for Windows
The GNOME project shipped version 48.3 on July 8, 2025, a point release that its own developers call “boring.” And thank goodness for that. In an operating system landscape where feature bloat...
VirtualBox 7.1.12 Unlocks AVX/AVX2 for Windows Guests Under Hyper-V, Cures Kernel Panic on Linux Bridges
Oracle slipped a maintenance update into VirtualBox on July 15, 2025, and while the version bump to 7.1.12 looks modest, it packs a punch for Windows administrators who juggle Hyper‑V and Linux...
GIMP 3.1.2 Lands With Overwrite Paint Mode, Full Photoshop Pattern Import, and PSB Export
GIMP 3.1.2 is the first development build on the road to GIMP 3.2, and it doesn’t waste time proving the project’s new ambitions. Released on June 23, 2025, this snapshot stacks a purpose-built...
KDE Plasma 6.4.3 Adopts Windows-Like Smart Scaling, Nixes Blurry Fractional Defaults
KDE Plasma 6.4.3 lands with a subtle but significant tweak to its automatic screen scale calculator on Wayland: it now rounds down borderline default scale factors to 100%, eschewing the fractional...
Audacity 3.7.4 Crushes Real-Time Effect Crashes, Unlocks Effect Previews on Muted Tracks
Audacity 3.7.4 lands with a stability-first punch, fixing crashes that have plagued real-time effect chains and large project saves, while adding small but impactful workflow improvements. The free,...