Articles from February 2026
Browse all Windows news articles published in February 2026
South Africa's 2026 IT Budget Crisis: 5 Levers to Protect Spending & Drive Growth
South African boards heading into 2026 face a stark, immediate choice: treat technology spending as an engine for growth—or as the single greatest controllable threat to next year’s balance...
Intel Bartlett Lake-S: 12 P-Core LGA1700 CPU for Industrial Windows Systems
Intel's Bartlett Lake-S processors have emerged as a surprising final chapter for the LGA1700 platform, offering a 12 P-core configuration specifically designed for industrial and embedded...
Windows 11 Local Account Bypass Removed: What It Means for Privacy & Enterprise Deployment
Microsoft's latest Windows 11 Insider builds have quietly removed a long-standing workaround that allowed users to set up Windows with a purely local account during the Out-of-Box Experience (OOBE),...
Microsoft Copilot Tasks: How AI Agents Will Automate Your Work in Windows and Microsoft 365
Microsoft's vision for artificial intelligence is evolving from conversational chatbots to autonomous agents that can plan and execute complex workflows. The company's latest initiative, Copilot...
Linux ksmbd Security Patch Fixes Critical Connection Leak (CVE-2026-23228)
The Linux kernel development community has addressed a significant security vulnerability in its in-kernel SMB server implementation, ksmbd, with a patch that fixes an active connection accounting...
Linux Kernel CVE-2026-23222: OMAP Crypto Driver Fix & Memory Safety Implications
A recently disclosed vulnerability in the Linux kernel, tracked as CVE-2026-23222, has highlighted ongoing challenges in memory safety within critical system components. The vulnerability...
Linux iSCSI Target UAF Race Fixed: CVE-2026-23216 Patch Analysis
The Linux kernel security landscape has seen another critical vulnerability addressed with the recent patch for CVE-2026-23216, a use-after-free race condition in the SCSI target iSCSI subsystem....
OCaml Marshal Vulnerability: Critical RCE Patch for Windows Developers
The OCaml programming language, widely used in financial systems, verification tools, and security-critical applications, has disclosed a severe vulnerability in its Marshal deserialization module...
Linux kernel ksmbd infinite loop bug CVE-2026-23220 forces urgent patch for SMB DoS risk
A critical vulnerability in the Linux kernel's in-kernel SMB server implementation, ksmbd, has been identified and assigned CVE-2026-23220, posing a significant denial-of-service risk to systems...
Linux Kernel Data Race Fix: How READ_ONCE/WRITE_ONCE Patched Bonding Driver Vulnerability
A subtle but significant data race vulnerability in the Linux kernel's bonding driver has been quietly patched this month, demonstrating how modern kernel development tools like syzbot and KCSAN are...
CVE-2026-22999: Linux QFQ Kernel UAF Vulnerability Analysis and Windows Implications
A significant memory safety vulnerability has been identified in the Linux kernel's networking subsystem, cataloged as CVE-2026-22999, which exposes critical systems to potential exploitation through...
Replacing Windows Shell with Cairo Desktop: A Complete Guide to Pros, Risks & Installation
The Windows desktop environment, with its familiar Start menu, taskbar, and file explorer, is so deeply integrated into the operating system that most users never consider it can be replaced....