Articles from September 2025
Browse all Windows news articles published in September 2025
Microsoft Account Hacks Bypass 2FA: The Datacenter IP Mystery Explained
A growing number of Microsoft account holders are discovering successful sign-ins from IP addresses inside Microsoft's own network—despite having two-factor authentication (2FA) enabled and...
Outlook Notifications Stopped? Blame January Windows Updates, Fix with KB5052093 and This Complete Workflow
A wave of silent Outlook alerts struck Windows 11 and 10 users in early 2025 after a string of cumulative updates left notifications disabled, delayed, or completely missing. For many, the culprit...
Laid Off by Microsoft? Try Using ChatGPT to Cope, Xbox Exec Posted — Then Deleted It
A senior Xbox Game Studios producer published—and swiftly deleted—a LinkedIn post urging colleagues laid off by Microsoft to use generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Copilot to manage not just...
2009 White House RDFa Push: How Machine-Readable Markup Foreshadowed Modern Open Government Data
On January 20, 2009, as a new administration took office, something subtle but significant happened in the source code of WhiteHouse.gov. Technology reporters inspecting the newly relaunched site...
Windows 11 Privacy and Speed: 5 Default Settings to Turn Off Immediately
Every new Windows 11 laptop arrives with a suite of features enabled out of the box—but many of those “conveniences” quietly trade away your privacy, system resources, and attention. A short...
Last Windows 10 WinRE Updates Arrive: KB5065918, KB5065307, KB5065845 Target Legacy Versions
Microsoft quietly pushed out a trio of Safe OS Dynamic Updates on September 9, 2025, aiming to shore up the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) on some of the oldest still-supported Windows 10...
India’s Sovereign Cloud Race Heats Up as TCS and C-DAC Announce OpenStack Alliance
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) have inked a Memorandum of Understanding to build India’s sovereign cloud – a domestic,...
Mastercard Introduces Agent Pay and AI-Enhanced Fraud Detection for Autonomous Commerce
Mastercard is betting that the next generation of e-commerce won't be clicked by humans—it will be negotiated and paid for by AI agents. The payments giant today announced a comprehensive framework...
Microsoft Defender Antivirus Now Matches Paid Suites in Protection, Lab Tests Confirm
Independent test labs now rank Microsoft’s built-in antivirus among the top performers for both protection and system impact, erasing years of reputation as a bare-minimum solution. AV‑TEST...
DJI Ends Support for Virtual Flight Sim, Pushing Windows Drone Pilots Toward Free and Pro-Grade Alternatives
DJI officially stopped maintaining its Virtual Flight app on March 21, 2024, a quiet move that forces thousands of drone photography newcomers to reconsider their training tools on Windows PCs. The...
From Windows 11 to macOS: A Pragmatic Migration Driven by Raycast and Workflow Efficiency
For years, Windows 11 has been the operating system of choice for countless professionals, but for João Carrasqueira, a writer and creative, the nagging interruptions and subscription upsells...
How a Misleading Shelf Sticker Sparked a National Misinformation Firestorm Over SARA Aid
A short video clip showing beer bottles on a supermarket shelf adorned with official-looking SARA and MyKasih stickers sent Malaysian social media into overdrive this month, forcing the Ministry of...