Articles from August 2025
Browse all Windows news articles published in August 2025
How Microsoft's Windows 10 Creators Update Rollout Really Unfolded: April 11 Start, Key Features, and the April 4 Myth
Microsoft’s Windows 10 Creators Update didn’t arrive on April 4, 2017, despite what some headlines claimed. The real story is a carefully orchestrated phased rollout that began on April 11—with...
AI Governance Market Tops $8.7B by 2029 as Microsoft HAX Toolkit Comes of Age
Global spending on AI governance software is on course to reach $8.7 billion by 2029, according to MarketsandMarkets, as the EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act imposes hard compliance deadlines on...
Microsoft's AI-First Windows Overhaul: Hudson Valley, Annual Updates, and NPU Requirements
Microsoft is preparing a sweeping AI-centric overhaul of Windows that returns the operating system to an annual release cadence, with a new platform codenamed Germanium paving the way for the Hudson...
Microsoft Launches Urgent Probe Into Azure Cloud’s Role in Palestinian Mass Surveillance
Microsoft has launched an urgent external review after media investigations alleged that Israel’s Unit 8200 used a customized Azure cloud environment to ingest and analyze massive volumes of...
Stetson Bennett’s 2-TD Night Powers Rams Past Cowboys; Joe Milton Injured Late
The Los Angeles Rams opened their 2025 preseason with a 31-21 victory over the Dallas Cowboys Saturday night at SoFi Stadium, a game defined by Stetson Bennett’s sharp passing and a late injury...
Dreamspace Launches AI App Builder: No-Code, On-Chain, with Microsoft Azure and Base
Dreamspace opened its public beta today, offering a fully integrated platform that lets non-technical creators generate, deploy, and monetize on-chain applications using nothing more than natural...
Windhawk Mod Instantly Fixes Windows 11 File Explorer’s White Flash in Dark Mode
A split-second of blinding white light is the last thing anyone expects from a dark mode. Yet for millions of Windows 11 users, opening a new File Explorer window or tab delivers exactly that: a...
GPT-5 Supercharges Windows Copilot with Deeper Reasoning, But a Sodium Bromide Poisoning Exposes Critical Safety Flaws
A man nearly died after following an older ChatGPT model’s dietary advice—replacing table salt with toxic sodium bromide—just as Microsoft rushes to weave OpenAI’s most advanced reasoning...
Microsoft's AI Push Overshadows 10 User-Requested Productivity Features Windows Still Lacks
Microsoft executives are painting a future where Windows understands your intent, responds to voice commands, and becomes an ambient, multimodal AI assistant. But while the company dreams big, a...
Half Your CPU Cores Missing in Task Manager? The msconfig Trap and How to Escape It
You fire up Task Manager to check performance, and your stomach drops. Your shiny 8-core processor is showing only 4 cores. Before you assume the worst—a faulty chip or a motherboard on the...
Windows Server 2025 KB5062553 Update Sparks IRQL BSOD on AMD EPYC Servers, HPE DL325 Hit
Server administrators managing HPE ProLiant DL325 systems are reporting critical system crashes after applying the July 2025 cumulative update for Windows Server 2025. The update, cataloged as...
Microsoft Hires Covington & Burling to Probe Azure's Role in Israeli Spy Unit Surveillance
Microsoft has hired the U.S. law firm Covington & Burling to lead an independent investigation into whether its Azure cloud platform was used by Israel’s elite signals intelligence unit, Unit...