Articles from December 2025
Browse all Windows news articles published in December 2025
Microsoft and Mistral AI Debut Mistral Large on Azure
Microsoft’s multi‑year pact with Mistral AI and the launch of Mistral Large first on Azure mark a significant milestone in the cloud–AI race: Azure will provide supercomputing infrastructure, commerci
Microsoft Store Awards 2025: Windows AI, Automation and Studio Tools
The Microsoft Store Awards 2025 winners list reads like a snapshot of the Windows ecosystem today: heavyweight AI assistants, studio-grad
Note Taking Beats LLM Alone: Hybrid Learning Wins in Classrooms
A randomized classroom experiment by Cambridge University Press & Assessment and Microsoft Research confirms a simple but crucial point for educators: traditional note‑taking still outperforms using a
Remove RC4 in Windows Kerberos with New Audit Fields and Remediation Tools
Microsoft is moving Windows authentication firmly away from the legacy RC4 cipher and adding concrete detection and remediation tooling so administrators can identify, isolate, and remediate RC4-depen
Windows 11 on Incompatible PCs: Official Upgrades, Bypasses, Risks
If your PC shows as “incompatible” but you’re determined to run Windows 11, the path forward is clearer — and riskier — than most users realize: Microsoft supplies officia
Copilot Pages Version History: Safe AI Drafting in Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365 Copilot Pages now include a built-in version history that lets you browse, compare, and restore earlier drafts o
Redis Lua Scripting CVE-2022-24735 Patch ACLs and Multi Tenant Security
Redis’ Lua scripting subsystem contained a subtle but consequential weakness that let a less‑privileged user inject code which could later execute with the privileges of a higher‑privileged Redis user
Binutils 2.45 CVE-2025-11494: Local Out-of-Bounds Read in ELF x86 Backend
A newly disclosed memory-safety flaw in GNU Binutils 2.45 allows a locally executed, specially crafted ELF file to trigger an out‑of‑bounds read inside the Linker’s ELF x86 backend — a defect tracked
CVE-2022-24736 Redis Lua DoS: Patch, Mitigations, and Best Practices
A malformed Lua script that reaches Redis’ embedded interpreter can trigger a NULL-pointer dereference and crash redis-server, a denial‑of‑service flaw tracked as CVE‑2022‑24736 that was fixed upstrea
CVE-2025-58183 Go archive tar Unbounded Allocations and Azure Linux Attestation
A critical memory-allocation flaw in the Go standard library’s archive/tar package (tracked as CVE-2025-58183) can cause a Go program to perform unbounded allocations when parsing GNU pax-format spars
Linux Rockchip VOP2 Fix Prevents Kernel Crash CVE-2025-38597
A subtle null-pointer check in the Linux DRM driver for Rockchip VOP2 has been fixed after security researchers and maintainers discovered a condition that can be trivially triggered on affected hardw
CVE-2025-38615 ntfs3 fix: Azure Linux is the only affected Microsoft product (so far)
A high‑impact Linux kernel patch landed in mid‑2025 closing a correctness flaw inside the ntfs3 in‑kernel NTFS driver; the vulnerability tracked as CVE‑2025‑38615 arises from a race condition that can