Articles from August 2025
Browse all Windows news articles published in August 2025
Microsoft Ditches Android Emulation for Seamless Phone-to-PC Resume in Windows 11
Microsoft has quietly killed Android emulation on Windows and replaced it with something far more elegant: a one-click handoff that resumes your Spotify playback from phone to PC exactly where you...
Microsoft Deploys Surveys Agent Through Frontier Program: AI Now Designs, Distributes, and Analyzes Feedback in Copilot
Microsoft dropped a new AI-powered surveys agent into its Copilot for Microsoft 365 this week, aiming to collapse the entire feedback lifecycle—from drafting to analysis—into a single chat...
Microsoft Brings Windows 365 Cloud PCs to Korea Central Region, Boosting Data Residency and Performance for South Korean Enterprises
Microsoft has quietly—yet materially—expanded Windows 365's regional footprint in Asia by activating the Korea Central Azure region for Cloud PC provisioning. The move, confirmed through updated...
China-Linked Hackers Weaponize Known CVEs to Turn Core Routers into Spy Tools
Seventeen intelligence and cybersecurity agencies from the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, and allied nations issued an extraordinary joint advisory on August 28, 2025, exposing a...
US Cyber Agencies Sound Alarm on PRC Router Firmware Attacks Exposing Global Networks to Stealth Espionage
A joint cybersecurity advisory from CISA, the NSA, the FBI, and international partners has warned that state-sponsored Chinese APT actors are systematically compromising the backbone routers that...
Forgiveness Does Not Erase Memories — It Mutes Their Emotional Power, Researchers Find
When someone wrongs you, the memory of the event can linger for years, triggering fresh waves of hurt each time it surfaces. But new research suggests that forgiveness can quiet that emotional...
Storm-0501 Abuses Entra Connect Sync to Launch Cloud-Based Ransomware, Microsoft Reveals
Storm-0501, a financially motivated threat actor, has pulled off a brazen hybrid attack that began with a compromised on-premises Active Directory, pivoted through Entra Connect Sync to seize Global...
Amazon’s $100B AI Capex: The Hidden Signal That Could Rewrite the Cloud AI Race
A single number buried in Amazon’s financials has Wall Street rethinking the AI hierarchy. Morgan Stanley analyst Brian Nowak points to the company’s ballooning capital expenditures—projected...
Microsoft's $13B AI Run-Rate Fuels Azure Growth, But Capex Pressure Divides Analysts
Microsoft's accelerating AI and cloud machine has hit a new gear: Azure revenue is surging past $75 billion annually, AI services have reached a $13 billion run-rate, and enterprise adoption of...
Windows Live Mail Survives on Windows 11 With IMAP Tricks, But Experts Urge Migration
Windows Live Mail refuses to die quietly. Fifteen years after its last major update, the discontinued email client can still be cajoled into sending and receiving mail on Windows 11—but the process...
Windows 10’s Last Stand: Microsoft’s $30 Extension Now Open for Enrollment
Microsoft has drawn a hard line under Windows 10 support: free operating-system security updates end permanently on October 14, 2025. For the first time in the consumer space, however, individuals...
Canadian Universities Swap AI Bans for Centralized Copilot and ChatGPT Deployments
Nearly eighteen months after emergency memos and ad‑hoc prohibitions swept Canadian campuses, the nation’s largest universities have largely abandoned blanket generative AI bans. In their place,...