Articles from August 2025
Browse all Windows news articles published in August 2025
Microsoft Edge Canary Upgrades Scareware Blocker with Default-On Scam Site Blocking and URL Sharing
Microsoft has quietly upgraded its experimental Scareware Blocker in Edge Canary to not only interrupt tech-support scams but to block entire scam websites and optionally send detected URLs to...
FreePBX Zero-Day Exploited in Wild: CISA Orders Emergency Patching for CVSS 10 RCE
CISA on August 29, 2025, added a critical vulnerability in Sangoma’s FreePBX telephony platform to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog, warning that attackers have been exploiting the...
Microsoft Debuts In-House AI Models MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-Preview, Shifting Dependence from OpenAI
Microsoft has officially entered the in-house foundation model arena, unveiling MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-preview, two AI models built to power Copilot and Azure services while reducing the company’s...
Kerberos CVE-2025-26647 Hardening Causes Authentication Chaos: The Full Story of Audit-to-Enforce and NTAuth Requirements
Microsoft’s April 2025 security updates introduced mandatory Kerberos protections for CVE-2025-26647, but the enforcement phase triggered a cascade of authentication failures across enterprise...
AWS's AI Dilemma: Why Scale Alone Can't Win the Cloud War
Amazon Web Services posted $30.9 billion in quarterly revenue and grew roughly 17 percent year over year—numbers that would crown almost any other technology business. Yet the same quarter revealed...
MFA Mandate Expands to Azure CLI, PowerShell, and IaC: The Clock Ticks for DevOps Migration
Microsoft is extending mandatory multi-factor authentication (MFA) beyond the Azure portal and into the command-line tools and automation interfaces that power cloud operations. Starting with its...
Windows 11 Insiders Gain AI-Powered Screenshot-to-Excel Conversion, Gated to Snapdragon Copilot+ PCs
Microsoft rolled out Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.5770 to the Dev Channel on August 29, packing a handful of productivity and accessibility upgrades that put AI-driven text actions and a...
Windows 11 Canary Build 27934 Repairs Black Flash Crashes, But Breaks Reset this PC
Microsoft's latest Windows 11 Insider Preview for the Canary Channel, Build 27934, landed on August 29, 2025, bringing with it a trio of much-needed stability fixes—and one glaring, deal-breaking...
KB5050094 Rescues USB Audio After Windows 11 24H2 Meltdown, But AI Features Demand Scrutiny
Microsoft’s January 28 preview cumulative update, KB5050094, finally restored audio to thousands of Windows 11 devices rendered mute by the 24H2 servicing stack, as the company simultaneously...
Windows 11 Gets a Sign-In Facelift and Power User Shortcuts in Latest Previews
Microsoft has shipped two new Insider preview builds—22635.4440 in the Beta Channel and 27754 in the Canary Channel—that overhaul the Windows Hello sign-in experience, tidy up the taskbar, and...
Microsoft Injects AI into File Explorer and Search in Massive Copilot Update for August 2025
Microsoft has taken its most aggressive step yet to weave generative AI into the fabric of Windows with the August 2025 feature drop for Microsoft 365 Copilot. The update lands not as a single...
Microsoft Intune Now Pushes Windows Updates During OOBE Setup via KB5065847
Microsoft’s August 29, 2025 OOBE update (KB5065847) marks a decisive shift in Windows 11, version 24H2 and Windows Server 2025 provisioning. Managed devices that meet eligibility rules can now...