Articles from December 2025
Browse all Windows news articles published in December 2025
Unpatched Linux Kernel Bug in AF_UNIX Sockets Opens Door to Local Host Crashes (CVE-2023-54082)
A race condition in the Linux kernel’s Unix domain socket code—tracked as CVE-2023-54082—can be exploited by any logged-in user to trigger a kernel panic, forcing a system crash. The flaw,...
CVE-2025-68358: Linux Btrfs Race Condition Could Lock Up Filesystems—And What It Means for Windows
{ "title": "CVE-2025-68358: Linux Btrfs Race Condition Could Lock Up Filesystems—And What It Means for Windows", "content": "On December 24, 2025, the Linux kernel community disclosed a race...
CVE-2025-68728: Linux Kernel NTFS Driver Fix Blocks Uninitialized Memory Exposure
The Linux kernel’s built-in NTFS file system driver just received a crucial patch to stamp out a memory initialization bug that could expose uninitialized memory to attackers or trigger kernel...
Microsoft Flags Kernel UAF in Linux NBD Driver – Patch Now to Protect WSL2 and Azure VMs
Microsoft has published an advisory for CVE-2025-68372, a use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel’s Network Block Device (NBD) driver that can crash systems running affected kernels,...
Microsoft BitLocker Gets Hardware Crypto Offload: Up to 70% CPU Savings for NVMe
{ "title": "Microsoft BitLocker Gets Hardware Crypto Offload: Up to 70% CPU Savings for NVMe", "content": "Microsoft has quietly enabled a hardware-accelerated mode for BitLocker in the latest...
Microsoft Bets $80 Billion on AI: How Copilot Will Reshape Your Windows Experience
Microsoft is staking $80 billion on artificial intelligence this fiscal year—a staggering bet aimed at weaving Copilot into every corner of Windows and Office, and converting millions of enterprise...
Microsoft’s Copilot Can Now Write Captions, Plan Posts, and Edit Video — Should You Trust It?
Microsoft has quietly turned its Copilot AI into a full-fledged social media assistant, capable of writing platform-optimized captions, building content calendars in Excel, and even producing...
Linux Kernel NTFS Patch Stops Sanitizer-Alarmed Information Leak
A newly disclosed kernel fix addresses a quiet but dangerous flaw in Linux’s built-in NTFS driver that could expose sensitive memory when the system mounts an untrusted USB stick or disk image. The...
Microsoft Copilot Studio's November Update: GPT-5 Chat Goes Live, Human Checkpoints Arrive, and Agent 365 Takes Control
Microsoft’s November 2025 updates to Copilot Studio bring three things that change the game for enterprise AI: production-grade GPT-5 Chat in the US and EU, human-in-the-loop review checkpoints...
Microsoft Warns of Kernel Bug in Linux BPF That Degrades Network Speed—WSL Users Should Update
Microsoft’s Security Response Center (MSRC) has published an advisory for CVE-2025-68725, a flaw in the Linux kernel’s BPF (Berkeley Packet Filter) test infrastructure that can trigger continuous...
Linux Kernel Race in mac_hid Driver: How a Mouse Setting Can Crash Your System and What to Do
The Linux kernel's mac_hid driver, a small piece of code that emulates mouse buttons on vintage Apple hardware, harbored a subtle but dangerous race condition. When multiple processes simultaneously...
Linux Kernel eBPF Crash Patched: CVE-2025-68742 Fix and What Windows Users Must Know
A race condition that could crash Linux kernels under specific eBPF workloads has been fixed. The patch, tagged CVE-2025-68742, resolves a null-pointer dereference in the softirq execution path—a...