Articles from 2026
Browse all Windows news articles published in 2026
How to Restore a Vanished Bluetooth Adapter in Windows 11’s Device Manager
You open Device Manager to check a Bluetooth problem, and the entire Bluetooth category is gone. No radio adapter, no paired devices — just silence. It’s a surprisingly common frustration on...
Surface Hub 3, Rally Board, or Flip Pro? Navigating Digital Whiteboards for Windows Workplaces
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Drag-and-Drop Attack Steals Microsoft 365 Access After You Pass MFA
Cybercriminals have figured out how to hijack Microsoft 365 accounts without ever touching a password—even if you've completed multi-factor authentication. A technique called ConsentFix, detailed...
Meta Quest’s Horizon+ Now Includes Xbox Game Pass — But There’s a 10-Hour Cloud Limit
Starting July 21, 2026, Meta is baking a starter edition of Xbox Game Pass directly into its Quest VR headset subscription, Horizon+, giving owners access to over 50 Xbox games streamed through the...
Critical Siemens Opcenter X Bug Lets Attackers Forge Admin Tokens, CVSS 10 — Patch V2604 Now
Siemens has released an emergency fix for its cloud manufacturing platform Opcenter X after discovering that attackers could forge JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) to impersonate any user — including...
Your FactoryTalk Directory Might Be Trusting Forged Tokens — Here’s the Fix
July 21, 2026 — Rockwell Automation has disclosed a critical flaw in its FactoryTalk Services Platform (FTSP) that lets a low‑privilege user craft a malicious JSON Web Token and impersonate any...
Samsung’s First Clip-On Earbuds Slip to Fall 2026 — What Windows Users Need to Know
Samsung won’t introduce its first clip-on, open-ear earbuds at the July 22 Galaxy Unpacked event in London. A new report from Korea’s Electronic Times says the company has pushed the launch to...
Samsung's Wider Galaxy Z Fold 8 Promises a Pocketable Tablet — and a Better Windows Companion
Samsung will announce a redesigned Galaxy Z Fold 8 at its July 22 Unpacked event that abandons the tall, narrow silhouette of previous book-style foldables for a shorter, wider body, according to...
Why Patching to CADRA V2511 Alone Won’t Secure Your Engineering Workstation
Siemens released a crucial security update for its CADRA design and drafting software on July 14, 2026, fixing seven severe zlib-related vulnerabilities that affect all versions older than V2511. But...
Urgent: Rockwell Patches Three Studio 5000 Vulnerabilities—Check Your Version Now
Rockwell Automation has patched three vulnerabilities in its Studio 5000 Logix Designer software—the Windows-based engineering platform for Logix 5000 controllers—that could let a malicious ACD...
Malicious UDP Traffic Can Take Down Rockwell Ex I/O Adapters—Update to Firmware 3.012 Now
On July 14, 2026, Rockwell Automation disclosed a high-severity denial-of-service vulnerability in its 1718-AENTR and 1719-AENTR EtherNet/IP adapters. The flaw, CVE-2026-9140, allows an...
Rockwell’s 1734-OB8 Module Bug Forces Hardware Migration—Here’s Your Game Plan
Rockwell Automation disclosed on July 21, 2026, that its widely used 1734-OB8 eight-point digital output module contains a denial-of-service vulnerability—and there’s no firmware fix coming....