Articles from August 2025
Browse all Windows news articles published in August 2025
Tom Grennan’s Premier League Predictions: When Fandom, Music, and Punditry Collide
A chart-topping musician with a new album and an arena tour might seem an unlikely sparring partner for a battle-hardened football pundit—but that’s exactly what the BBC’s opening-weekend...
GPT-5 Arrives on Windows via Copilot, Promising Deeper Reasoning and Longer Context
On August 7, 2025, OpenAI released GPT-5 — and Microsoft simultaneously flipped the switch across its entire Copilot ecosystem, bringing the new model’s unified fast/thinking modes to Windows 11,...
GPT-4 Can Infer Your Personality from Casual Chat, Study Finds—And That’s Why Windows Copilot Should Stay Personality-Free
GPT-4 can accurately infer your Big Five personality traits—openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism—from just a short conversation. That’s the startling finding of...
Braz de Pina’s 3Tonic Concept Turns Music Theory into a Playful Pocket Synth
A new hardware concept from designer Braz de Pina aims to strip away the intimidation of music theory and replace it with the simple joy of pressing buttons. The 3Tonic is a pocket-sized chord...
HGF’s Microsoft Fabric Gamble: How One IP Firm Is Navigating the P-SKU Sunset and Building a Governed Data Estate
HGF, one of Europe’s largest intellectual property firms, has engaged Simpson Associates to modernize its entire data estate on Microsoft Fabric and deploy Power BI dashboards—a move that will...
Google Chrome 139.0.7258.127 Plugs Aura Use-After-Free (CVE-2025-8882) and Other High-Severity Bugs
Google has deployed a critical stable-channel update for Chrome, version 139.0.7258.127, closing a use-after-free vulnerability in the Aura UI component tracked as CVE-2025-8882. The patch also...
Google Ships Chrome 139 Fix for ANGLE Out‑of‑Bounds Write, Microsoft Edge To Follow
Google has shipped a critical security update for Chrome, version 139.0.7258.127, to plug a dangerous out-of-bounds write flaw in the ANGLE graphics translation layer. Tracked as CVE-2025-8901, the...
Chrome 139 Fixes High-Severity libaom AV1 Heap Overflow; Edge Patch to Follow
Google has rolled out a stable-channel update for Chrome that patches CVE-2025-8879, a high-severity heap buffer overflow in the libaom AV1 codec library. The fix landed on August 12, 2025, in Chrome...
Urgent Chrome 139.0.7258.127 Update Closes V8 Race Condition (CVE-2025-8880) — Patch Now for Windows, Edge, and Chromium Browsers
On August 12, 2025, Google rushed out Chrome 139.0.7258.127 with an urgent fix for CVE-2025-8880 — a high-severity race condition in the V8 JavaScript engine that could hand remote attackers the...
Chrome's File Picker Cross-Origin Leak Prompts Emergency Patch for Windows Browsers
A critical logic flaw in Chromium's File Picker—one of the browser's most sensitive UI components—can be weaponized to leak data across origins, forcing Google and Microsoft to ship urgent...
Microsoft Probes Surface Pro 11 Charging Glitch That Halves Battery Life
A firmware update rolled out in early August 2025 for Snapdragon-powered Surface devices is causing a severe battery charging regression for a subset of Surface Pro 11 owners. The bug removes the...
6 Lightweight Windows Apps That Crush Built-in Tools for Speed and Features
Windows bundled apps get the job done, but for users who demand speed, features, and efficiency, the defaults often fall short. Whether it’s the sluggish Photos app struggling with large RAW...