Articles from July 29, 2026
Browse all Windows news articles published on July 29, 2026
Lenovo's Next Budget All-in-One Could Bring Six New Colors and Qi Charging to Windows 11 Desktops
Exclusive renders obtained by Windows Latest show that Lenovo is preparing a new IdeaCentre all-in-one PC with six color finishes, including four muted pastel options, and a design that hints at the...
Microsoft’s Unified Copilot App Is Coming This Year: Chat, Code, and Agents in One Place
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella confirmed during a July 29 earnings call that the company is building a unified Copilot “super app” — a single interface combining its AI chat, coding assistant, and...
The YellowKey BitLocker Bypass Is Fixed—Here’s How to Make Sure Your PC Is Secure
Microsoft quietly fixed a critical BitLocker encryption bypass vulnerability—tracked as CVE-2026-45585 and nicknamed YellowKey—in its June 2026 Patch Tuesday updates. The patch closes a...
Microsoft's $41B Bet Pays Off: Copilot Hits 30M Paid Seats, Azure Tops $100B
Microsoft CFO Amy Hood told employees in a July 29 memo that the company’s massive AI investments are beginning to pay off, revealing that Microsoft 365 Copilot now has over 30 million paid seats...
Microsoft’s AD FS DKM ACL Hardening: What You Need to Do Before October 13
On July 14, 2026, Microsoft released a security update that quietly starts auditing access controls on a sensitive Active Directory Federation Services container. For the next three months, Windows...
Delinea Platform Now Lets You Veto an AI Agent's Risky Move Before It Strikes
Delinea has added a new layer of security that lets enterprise teams approve or block an AI agent’s actions in real time—after authentication but before the agent touches a production database,...
US Lawmakers Push Permanent DUV Ban for China: What It Means for Windows Hardware and AI Server Supply
U.S. lawmakers introduced a bill in April 2026 that would impose a permanent, country-wide ban on exporting deep ultraviolet (DUV) immersion lithography equipment to China and threaten to disrupt...
Researchers Propose On-Chip Vibrations to Link Distant Qubits Across a Silicon Wafer
On June 15, 2026, a paper in APL Quantum laid out a blueprint for connecting far-flung quantum bits without any wiring at all. The team from the University of Warwick and Canada’s National Research...
OpenAI’s Safety Classifier Blocked a Developer’s Bug Investigation — Here’s What Windows Users Need to Know
On July 29, 2026, security researcher Daniel Fox Franke found himself fighting an unexpected adversary while hunting down a segmentation fault in the open-source tool ripgrep. His AI assistant,...
Steam Deck OLED Finally Streams HDR from PC: Valve Beta How-To
Valve has finally unlocked high-dynamic-range streaming for its most vibrant handheld. A Steam Beta update released on July 29 lets owners of the Steam Deck OLED receive HDR video from a remote...
CISA Flags Actively Exploited Cisco Firewall Manager Flaw—Patch Immediately
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on July 29 added a hardcoded password vulnerability in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog,...
Why Microsoft’s Intel 18A Test Chip Isn’t the Windows Hardware News You Think It Is
Intel has officially completed the Pentagon-backed RAMP-C pilot on its next-generation 18A manufacturing process, a milestone that saw Microsoft, Nvidia, and IBM successfully tape out test chips. But...