Articles from May 2026
Browse all Windows news articles published in May 2026
Bill Ackman's Microsoft Bet: Why Azure, Copilot, and AI Capex Make MSFT a Top 2026 Pick
Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square Capital Management has quietly built a multibillion-dollar position in Microsoft (MSFT) during the first quarter of 2026, a strategic pivot that saw the hedge fund...
Windows 11 Revives Dockable Copilot Sidebar with New Admin Block Policies
Microsoft is reviving a dockable Copilot sidebar in Windows 11, undoing a short-lived move that turned the AI assistant into a standalone web app. The returning sidebar snaps to the left or right...
CVE-2026-43414: Local Attackers Can Exploit Linux qla2xxx Bug for Kernel Takeover
The Linux kernel’s qla2xxx SCSI host bus adapter driver carries a critical memory‑management flaw that, when triggered, can free the same kernel object twice—a classic double‑free condition....
May 1 CVE: Linux MPTCP MSG_PEEK|MSG_WAITALL combo causes CPU soft lockup DoS
A newly published Linux kernel vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-43029, exposes a denial-of-service vector that can paralyze systems through an infinite spin in Multipath TCP (MPTCP) receive...
2026 Free AI Image Generators Face Daily Quotas and Hidden Licensing Traps
Microsoft Copilot Designer, Google Gemini, Leonardo AI, and a handful of other platforms now dominate the free AI image generator scene. But the real story isn’t about which one renders the...
WSL 2.7.7 and 2.7.5 Preview Bring Linux Kernel 6.18, VHD Access Fixes, and WSLg Package Update
{ "title": "WSL 2.7.7 and 2.7.5 Preview Bring Linux Kernel 6.18, VHD Access Fixes, and WSLg Package Update", "content": "Microsoft has pushed out not one but two new preview builds of Windows...
GitHub Copilot battles Cursor, Claude Code as agentic coding reshapes 2026
GitHub Copilot, once the unchallenged leader in AI-assisted coding, is losing ground to a new wave of autonomous coding agents. By May 2026, tools like Cursor, Claude Code, and OpenAI Codex are...
Microsoft Opens Greenwood Cyber + AI Lab in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on May 21, 2026.
Microsoft and Black Tech Street officially opened the doors to the Greenwood Cyber + AI Lab on May 21, 2026, inside the historic Greenwood Entrepreneurship at Moton building in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The...
Dell, Microsoft Unveil Production-Ready Agentic AI with Governance, Edge Focus
Agentic AI is no longer a lab experiment. For the week ending May 23, 2026, real-time analytics vendors, cloud providers, and infrastructure giants pivoted their messaging from proof-of-concept to...
AMD RX 9070 XT Green Screen Crashes Plague Windows 11 Users
A wave of instability reports is hitting owners of Sapphire's Nitro+ Radeon RX 9070 XT graphics cards, with Windows 11 Pro users documenting frequent and seemingly random driver crashes. The failures...
Why Google Gemini Beats Bing Copilot in AI Search: Distribution Wins Over Demo Power
Microsoft stunned the tech world in February 2023 when it infused OpenAI's GPT-4 into Bing, creating a conversational search engine that could answer complex questions, generate text, and even create...
AudioHijack Attack Uses Hidden Audio to Inject Malicious Commands into Voice AI
A team of researchers from Zhejiang University, the National University of Singapore, and Nanyang Technological University has pulled back the curtain on AudioHijack, a stealthy new attack that...