Articles from September 2025
Browse all Windows news articles published in September 2025
Microsoft's Paint App Now Hides a Secret AI Test Lab—But You Can't Sign Up Yet
Microsoft has quietly begun inviting Windows 11 users to join a new opt-in program called Windows AI Labs, designed to let early adopters test experimental AI features directly inside native apps...
Windows 10 Free Upgrade Scam Unleashed Ransomware That Locked Files Until Bitcoin Paid
In late July 2015, as millions of users rushed to upgrade to Windows 10, attackers sent convincing phishing emails offering the free update that instead deployed a ransomware variant known as...
Zoom’s AI Companion 3.0 Will Now Take Notes in Microsoft Teams and Google Meet — Here’s What That Means for Your Workflow
Zoom’s annual Zoomtopia event this week delivered a clear message: the company is done being just a video service. AI Companion 3.0, a new cross-platform notetaking tool, and photorealistic avatars...
Microsoft's AKS Automatic Aims to Slash Kubernetes Downtime with Opinionated Defaults
Microsoft this week rolled out AKS Automatic, a new managed mode for Azure Kubernetes Service that ships clusters preconfigured with production-grade defaults, automated scaling, and integrated...
Flight Simulator 2024 on PS5: The Real Story Behind the November Rumors
A fresh retail leak suggests Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 could touch down on PlayStation 5 this November, but the rumor crashes headfirst into a sobering reality: the sim’s 2024 launch on Xbox...
Why Roblox Shift Lock Fails and How to Restore Camera Control on Windows
The Shift Lock camera feature in Roblox on Windows 10 and 11 has been breaking for a growing number of players, leaving them unable to aim or move properly in third-person. But a clear sequence of...
Paint's New 'AI Labs' Sign-Up Hints Microsoft Is Opening On-Device AI Tests to All Windows 11 Users
Microsoft has quietly inserted a “Microsoft AI Labs” sign-up prompt into the Settings menu of its Paint app on Windows 11, inviting users to register for experimental AI features without...
Windows Security’s Quiet Rise: The Built-In Protections That Make Paid Antivirus Optional
Microsoft’s built-in Windows Security suite has reached a tipping point. Once dismissed as a bare-bones scanner, it now layers ransomware controls, cloud-driven threat intelligence, app-execution...
Slow Azure Connections? Blame the Internet's Fragile Undersea Backbone
Microsoft Azure customers across Asia, the Middle East, and parts of Europe woke up to sluggish cloud performance on September 6 after multiple submarine fiber-optic cables in the Red Sea were...
Don’t Expose Your Server: How to Enable Remote Desktop on Windows Server 2019 the Secure Way
Microsoft shipped Windows Server 2019 with Remote Desktop disabled by design. That decision wasn’t an accident — it was a response to years of ransomware gangs, brute-force bots, and accidental...
Classic File Explorer Title Bars Are Back in This ExplorerPatcher Pre-Release
The latest pre-release build of ExplorerPatcher restores the classic File Explorer title bar on Windows 11 22H2 and later, fixes a broken weather widget, and improves compatibility with other...
UK’s Largest AI Supercomputer: Nscale, Microsoft, NVIDIA Plan 23,040-GPU Campus
Nscale, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and OpenAI have unveiled plans for the UK’s largest AI supercomputer—a 23,040-GPU campus in Loughton, Essex—alongside a sovereign compute platform called Stargate UK....