Articles from August 2025
Browse all Windows news articles published in August 2025
Critical ANGLE Use-After-Free Fix in Chrome 139 Forces Urgent Edge and Enterprise Patching
Microsoft has confirmed that a freshly disclosed use-after-free vulnerability in the Chromium ANGLE graphics layer, tracked as CVE-2025-9478, is now resolved in the latest Edge stable channel —...
HP Q3 Beat: AI PCs and Windows 11 Upgrades Fuel Recovery, Tariff Pivot Pays Off
HP Inc. on Thursday reported fiscal third-quarter results that beat Wall Street estimates, driven by a surge in demand for AI-capable PCs and a corporate refresh cycle tied to the looming end of...
Microsoft's $75B Azure Milestone Exposes Pitfalls of Automated Financial Analysis
Microsoft’s cloud business crossed a symbolic threshold in fiscal 2025: Azure and other cloud services generated roughly $75 billion in annual revenue, the company confirmed in its year-end...
Windows Backup for Organizations Debuts to Simplify Entra-Device Settings Migration to Windows 11
The mass exodus from Windows 10 ahead of its October 14, 2025 end-of-support deadline has found a new ally, but one that walks a very fine line between productivity booster and operational hazard....
Chrome Canary Introduces Selective Overlay Scrollbar Flashing to Curb Distractions
Chrome Canary has quietly rolled out a new experimental flag that promises to end one of the most persistent annoyances for users of overlay scrollbars: the flickering, strobing chaos that erupts...
Microsoft Teams Gets Tougher: Automatic Blocks for Weaponized Files and Malicious URLs
Microsoft is raising the shield on its flagship collaboration platform. Starting in September, Microsoft Teams will automatically block messages containing weaponizable file types and warn or block...
Microsoft Warns: UEFI Secure Boot Certificates Expire in 2026, Unpatched PCs at Risk
UEFI Secure Boot, the firmware-level defense that keeps Windows PCs free from boot-level malware, faces a critical transition in 2026 when core certificate authorities expire. Microsoft has warned...
The Great Optimizer Myth: How Windows Built-in Tools Make Third-Party Speed Suites Obsolete
The market for PC cleaner and optimizer apps has thrived for decades on a simple promise: click a button, delete junk, and reclaim lost speed. But a growing chorus of Windows experts and community...
Patch Now: Delta COMMGR Critical Vulnerabilities Allow Remote Code Execution via .isp Files
Delta Electronics has issued an urgent security advisory and released COMMGR version 2.10.0 to fix two high-severity vulnerabilities that could let attackers execute arbitrary code on industrial...
Mitsubishi Says No Fix Coming for MELSEC iQ-F Cleartext Credential Flaw (CVE-2025-7731)
A serious vulnerability in Mitsubishi Electric's MELSEC iQ-F series programmable logic controllers leaves credentials exposed in plaintext network traffic, and the vendor has declared it will not...
Unpatchable ICS Vulnerabilities: Mitsubishi, Schneider, Delta Among Vendors in CISA's Nine-Alert Batch
Nine industrial control system advisories released by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on August 28, 2025, expose critical weaknesses in products from Mitsubishi...
No Firmware Fix for MELSEC iQ-F Modbus Flaw CVE-2025-7405 – Windows & OT Teams Must Isolate Now
Mitsubishi Electric has notified customers that it will not release firmware updates to address a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in its MELSEC iQ-F series programmable logic controllers...