Articles from August 2025
Browse all Windows news articles published in August 2025
Wine 10.14 Brings vkd3d 1.17 with Shared Memory Support, Experimental Metal Backend for macOS
Wine 10.14 landed this week with a critical vkd3d upgrade that introduces HLSL shared memory support and—for the first time—an experimental Metal Shading Language backend, offering a glimpse of...
Missouri AG Demands AI Giants Hand Over Chatbot Ranking Secrets in Trump Bias Probe
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey has launched an unprecedented legal broadside against artificial intelligence developers, sending formal demand letters to OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Meta...
Windows Security Blank or Unresponsive? Try These 9 Fixes Before Reinstalling Windows
Windows Security, the graphical face of Microsoft Defender, can suddenly refuse to open—leaving you staring at a blank window, a grayed-out interface, or simply nothing at all. The problem, widely...
Clear App Data, Re-link Cloud, Reboot Router: The Fix for My Family Cinema ‘Not Connected’ Errors
A steady stream of My Family Cinema (MFC) users hitting the dreaded “Not connected” screen on their TV boxes and Firesticks has found that the fix doesn’t require technical heroics. Community...
No Universal SSD Death: Microsoft and Phison Clear August Update, but Forensic Questions Linger
Microsoft and SSD controller maker Phison have both concluded that the August 2025 Windows 11 cumulative update, tracked as KB5063878, did not trigger a wave of SSD failures across the Windows...
Vivaldi CEO Declares War on AI in Browsers: 'Web Browsing Belongs to People, Not Bots'
{ "title": "Vivaldi CEO Declares War on AI in Browsers: 'Web Browsing Belongs to People, Not Bots'", "content": "Jon von Tetzchner, the outspoken CEO of Vivaldi Technologies, has drawn a line in...
Naked with a Tie: How Satire and Oral Traditions Preserve Peradeniya University’s Unique Identity
In a Sri Lankan hill‑country campus, a student once walked into a formal high‑table dinner wearing only a tie. The act was a silent rebellion against a dress code imposed by a colonial past, and...
How Digital Echo Chambers Fuel the MAGA Cult of Personality
A 2024 CBS News/YouGov poll revealed a startling statistic: 71% of Donald Trump’s most loyal supporters said they trusted him more than family, friends, or religious leaders to tell them...
Microsoft's Copilot Free Tier Now Runs on GPT-4 Turbo, Offering 128K Context and April 2023 Cutoff
Microsoft has silently shifted the free tier of its Copilot AI assistant onto OpenAI's GPT-4 Turbo model, a move that brings a dramatically larger context window, more recent training data, and...
Microsoft’s MAI-Voice-1 Generates a Minute of Audio in Under a Second, Debuts in Copilot Today
Microsoft has quietly shipped two in-house AI models into consumer-facing Copilot experiences, marking a dramatic pivot from pure producer of cloud infrastructure for OpenAI to a builder of its own...
Forgotten Windows VR Headsets Get a SteamVR Lifeline via Oasis Driver
On August 29, 2025, owners of Windows Mixed Reality headsets got an unexpected reprieve. A new native SteamVR driver called Oasis, developed by former Microsoft mixed reality engineer Matthieu...
PowerToys Replaces Paid Windows Utilities: The Hidden Trade-Offs
Microsoft’s PowerToys, once a collection of experimental utilities, has quietly matured into a comprehensive, free toolkit that replaces a surprising number of paid Windows productivity apps. A...