Articles from August 2025
Browse all Windows news articles published in August 2025
Emergency Windows Updates Restore Reset and Recovery Tools Broken by August Patch Tuesday
Microsoft shipped out-of-band cumulative updates on August 19, 2025, to resurrect Windows’ broken recovery tools, just one week after its regular Patch Tuesday releases had inadvertently disabled...
Microsoft Quietly Extends Windows 10 Consumer ESU Through October 2027
Microsoft has quietly rewritten the timeline for its Windows 10 consumer Extended Security Updates program, expanding coverage from a single year to nearly two full years—until October 12, 2027....
CISA's Triple Threat: Mitsubishi HVAC 9.8, Unpatched MELSEC DoS, and Fujifilm Privilege Escalation
Mitsubishi Electric’s air conditioning controllers face a critical authentication bypass with a CVSS severity score of 9.8, leading a trio of industrial control system (ICS) and medical device...
Mitsubishi Electric Confirms Unpatched DoS Flaw in MELSEC iQ-F PLCs, Recommends Network Hardening
Mitsubishi Electric has disclosed a remotely exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability in the embedded web server of its MELSEC iQ-F series programmable logic controllers, tracked under an internal...
Fujifilm Medical Viewer Flaw Allows Unauthorized Access to Patient Scans — CISA Calls for Immediate Upgrade
A severe privilege-escalation vulnerability in FUJIFILM Healthcare Americas’ Synapse Mobility medical imaging viewer could allow remote attackers to bypass role-based access controls and view...
Microsoft Azure Tops $75B Revenue as AI Data Center Buildout Surges
Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform generated $75 billion in revenue during fiscal year 2025, a 34% leap that reflects soaring enterprise demand for AI workloads and the company’s relentless data...
Microsoft Delays Teams Copilot Screen Analysis to 2026 Amid Privacy Uproar
Microsoft has quietly shelved one of its most ambitious Copilot integrations for Teams, delaying a feature that would allow the AI assistant to analyze shared screen content during meetings until at...
Microsoft, Phison Find No Evidence That Windows 11 KB5063878 Causes SSDs to Vanish
After weeks of investigation, Microsoft and SSD controller manufacturer Phison have concluded that they could not reproduce the alarming reports of SSDs vanishing or being corrupted following the...
Forget Filenames: Copilot's New Semantic Search Finds Files by Meaning on AI PCs
Microsoft has begun rolling out a significant update to its Copilot app for Windows Insiders, introducing semantic file search that understands natural language queries and a redesigned home screen...
Windows 11 KB5063878 Update Causes NVMe SSDs to Vanish During Heavy Writes, Microsoft Investigating
Multiple independent reports and reproducible tests have confirmed that the Windows 11 August 2025 cumulative update (KB5063878, OS Build 26100.4946) can cause NVMe SSDs to abruptly disappear during...
Microsoft 365 Copilot for iOS Ditches Editing, Forces Users to Install Separate Word, Excel Apps
Microsoft is stripping editing capabilities from the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on iOS, transforming it into a preview and AI chat wrapper that pushes users toward standalone Word, Excel, and...
Suleyman: The Next AI Crisis Is Machines That Pretend to Be People
{ "title": "Suleyman: The Next AI Crisis Is Machines That Pretend to Be People", "content": "Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft’s AI CEO, has issued a stark public warning: engineers are on the brink...