Articles from 2025
Browse all Windows news articles published in 2025
Microsoft Flags Kernel UAF in Linux NBD Driver – Patch Now to Protect WSL2 and Azure VMs
Microsoft has published an advisory for CVE-2025-68372, a use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel’s Network Block Device (NBD) driver that can crash systems running affected kernels,...
Microsoft BitLocker Gets Hardware Crypto Offload: Up to 70% CPU Savings for NVMe
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Microsoft Bets $80 Billion on AI: How Copilot Will Reshape Your Windows Experience
Microsoft is staking $80 billion on artificial intelligence this fiscal year—a staggering bet aimed at weaving Copilot into every corner of Windows and Office, and converting millions of enterprise...
Microsoft’s Copilot Can Now Write Captions, Plan Posts, and Edit Video — Should You Trust It?
Microsoft has quietly turned its Copilot AI into a full-fledged social media assistant, capable of writing platform-optimized captions, building content calendars in Excel, and even producing...
Linux Kernel NTFS Patch Stops Sanitizer-Alarmed Information Leak
A newly disclosed kernel fix addresses a quiet but dangerous flaw in Linux’s built-in NTFS driver that could expose sensitive memory when the system mounts an untrusted USB stick or disk image. The...
Indian Railways Fare Hike from December 26: Pay 2 Paise Extra per km on Mail/Express – Full Breakdown
Starting today, December 26, 2025, Indian Railways has implemented a small but broad fare rationalisation that increases basic fares for millions of long-distance passengers. The hike adds 2 paise...
Microsoft Copilot Studio's November Update: GPT-5 Chat Goes Live, Human Checkpoints Arrive, and Agent 365 Takes Control
Microsoft’s November 2025 updates to Copilot Studio bring three things that change the game for enterprise AI: production-grade GPT-5 Chat in the US and EU, human-in-the-loop review checkpoints...
Microsoft Warns of Kernel Bug in Linux BPF That Degrades Network Speed—WSL Users Should Update
Microsoft’s Security Response Center (MSRC) has published an advisory for CVE-2025-68725, a flaw in the Linux kernel’s BPF (Berkeley Packet Filter) test infrastructure that can trigger continuous...
Linux Kernel Race in mac_hid Driver: How a Mouse Setting Can Crash Your System and What to Do
The Linux kernel's mac_hid driver, a small piece of code that emulates mouse buttons on vintage Apple hardware, harbored a subtle but dangerous race condition. When multiple processes simultaneously...
Linux Kernel eBPF Crash Patched: CVE-2025-68742 Fix and What Windows Users Must Know
A race condition that could crash Linux kernels under specific eBPF workloads has been fixed. The patch, tagged CVE-2025-68742, resolves a null-pointer dereference in the softirq execution path—a...
GFS2 Users Face Deadlock Risk: Kernel Patch Removes Dangerous Memory Allocation Flag
A patch landed in the Linux kernel’s stable trees on December 24, 2025, fixing a subtle but dangerous memory allocation mistake in the GFS2 clustered filesystem. The vulnerability, tracked as...
CVE-2025-68746: Tegra QSPI Driver Race Condition Threatens Linux Kernel Security
A newly disclosed vulnerability in the Linux kernel's Tegra QSPI driver has security researchers and system administrators on high alert. CVE-2025-68746, with a CVSS score of 5.5 (Medium severity),...