Articles from August 2025
Browse all Windows news articles published in August 2025
Microsoft Tackles Windows 11’s Painful ‘Flashbang’ Popups with Long-Awaited Dark Mode Update
Microsoft has quietly begun addressing one of Windows 11’s most jarring visual flaws: the blinding white file-operation dialogs that shatter the Dark Mode experience. In recent Insider preview...
Windows 11 Build 26100.5061 Brings Dark Mode to Legacy File Dialogs via Staged Rollout
Microsoft has taken a long-awaited step toward visual consistency in Windows 11 by introducing dark theme support for legacy file-operation dialogs in the latest Insider preview builds. The change,...
CISA's August 19 ICS Alert: Siemens Desigo CC SAML Bypass, Tigo Hardcoded Credentials, and EG4 Inverter Firmware Risks Exposed
Four industrial control system advisories released by CISA on August 19, 2025, pack an urgent punch for critical infrastructure operators, exposing dangerous flaws across building management...
Siemens Urges Patching of Desigo CC and SENTRON as CodeMeter Flaws Enable Remote RCE and Privilege Escalation
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Mendix SAML Signature Bypass Allows Remote Account Hijacking; Siemens Urges Immediate Patches
Siemens on August 14, 2025, disclosed a critical vulnerability in its Mendix SAML module that could allow unauthenticated attackers to bypass cryptographic signature verification and hijack user...
Microsoft Lays Off 9,000 as Nadella Dumps Gates' Software Factory for AI 'Intelligence Engine'
Microsoft is not struggling. It just posted $76.4 billion in quarterly revenue, netted $27.2 billion, and saw its market cap brush past $3.8 trillion. Yet CEO Satya Nadella is cutting roughly 9,000...
Microsoft Hires Covington & Burling to Investigate Azure AI’s Role in Israeli Surveillance Operations
Microsoft has commissioned an external legal review led by the law firm Covington & Burling LLP to investigate allegations that its Azure cloud platform and artificial intelligence tools were...
Ditch Subscriptions: 10 Open-Source Windows Apps That Put You Back in Control
Microsoft’s Windows ecosystem has long been defined by its vast library of third-party software, but for many power users, the real magic lies not in glossy subscription suites, but in the...
WSL2 Deep Dive: Real Linux Kernel, GUI Apps, and the Performance Trade-off That Matters
Microsoft’s WSL2 delivers a genuine Linux kernel inside a lightweight VM, giving developers near-native performance and full GUI app support—but only if you keep your project files in the right...
Phison Investigates as Windows 11 KB5063878 Causes NVMe SSDs to Vanish Mid-Write
Phison has confirmed it is investigating a storage regression tied to Microsoft’s August cumulative update for Windows 11 24H2 that makes NVMe SSDs disappear during heavy sustained write...
Free Cheltenham Workshop Shows Gloucestershire SMEs How to Pilot AI in 60 Days
On Thursday, 25 September 2025, senior business leaders from across Gloucestershire will gather at The Site coworking space in Cheltenham for a two-hour breakfast workshop designed to turn AI...
Navatar Embeds AI-Powered Deal Intelligence into Outlook, Slack, and Salesforce for M&A Advisors
Navatar on August 19, 2025, launched a fully AI-powered CRM designed to meet merger and acquisition advisory professionals where they already work—inside Microsoft Outlook, Slack, and Salesforce....