Articles from August 2025
Browse all Windows news articles published in August 2025
Microsoft Copilot Lands on Samsung 2025 TVs with Animated Avatar, Voice AI, and Visual Cards
Microsoft and Samsung have officially launched Copilot on select 2025 Samsung TVs and Smart Monitors, bringing a voice-powered AI companion with an animated, lip-synced avatar directly to the biggest...
TD SYNNEX and AWS Forge Americas-Wide Pact to Fast-Track AI, Cloud Migration for SMBs and ISVs
TD SYNNEX has signed a multi-year Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services that aims to accelerate cloud migration, artificial intelligence adoption, and AWS Marketplace...
Microsoft's CLOUD Act Confession: Your EU Data Isn't Truly Safe from U.S. Prying Eyes
Microsoft's France officials told a Senate committee that they "cannot guarantee" French citizens’ data would never be transferred to U.S. authorities without French agreement. The June 2025...
RDP Timing Attacks Explode to 30,000 Malicious IPs in Pre-Attack Reconnaissance on U.S. Schools
Last week, threat intelligence firm GreyNoise observed a coordinated scanning campaign targeting Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) services that rapidly escalated from an initial wave of nearly...
Microsoft’s Azure Update Manager: Hotpatching and Dynamic Scoping Arrive, But Rollback Gaps Remain
Enterprise Windows patch management is undergoing a seismic shift as Microsoft retires its legacy update orchestration tools and funnels administrators toward Azure Update Manager (AUM), a service...
Firefox 142.0.1 Rapid Hotfix Restores Tab Dragging, Smashes Platform Crashes
Mozilla rolled out Firefox 142.0.1 on August 27, 2025, a mere days after the feature-packed Firefox 142 release, in a surgical strike meant to quash half a dozen regressions that had power users and...
WSL 2 and WSLg Turn Windows 11 into a Linux Power User's Dream
The days of juggling dual-boot partitions or sluggish virtual machines to get a usable Linux environment on Windows are over. With WSL 2 and the recent addition of WSLg for GUI app support, Windows...
Claude for Chrome Pilot Exposes Residual Prompt Injection Risks for Enterprise AI Browsing
Anthropic has quietly launched a research preview of a Chrome extension that lets its Claude AI assistant operate web browsers—clicking buttons, filling forms, and navigating multi-step...
VCF 9.0 Ships with Free Private AI Services, Broadcom Claims It Beats Public Cloud
Broadcom is staking a dramatic claim: enterprise AI belongs on-premises, and it just made the move a lot cheaper. At VMware Explore 2025 in Las Vegas, the company announced that VMware Private AI...
Microsoft’s Word Now Saves New Docs to Cloud Automatically: What You Need to Know
Microsoft has begun rolling out a fundamental shift in how Word for Windows handles new documents. Starting with Word for Windows Version 2509 (Build 19221.20000) in the Insider channel, every fresh...
NFL’s 2,500 Surface Copilot+ PCs Inject AI Into Every Play Call and Scouting Decision
The NFL has equipped all 32 clubs with over 2,500 Surface Copilot+ PCs, injecting real-time AI analytics directly into the hands of coaches during games, scouting combines, and operational planning....
OpenAI's $30 Billion SoftBank Tranche at Risk as Microsoft Talks Delay Restructuring
A deadlock between OpenAI and its largest strategic partner, Microsoft, over API access, intellectual property rights, and a disputed AGI escape clause has stalled the AI developer’s hotly...