Articles from 2025
Browse all Windows news articles published in 2025
Discarded Vape Becomes Functional HTTP Server: A Striking E-Waste Wake-Up Call
A discarded disposable vape pen, with its 24 MHz microcontroller and a few kilobytes of memory, now runs a live web server—and the hack is far more than a clever stunt. Engineer Bogdan Ionescu’s...
No-Reboot Fix: Microsoft KB5066360 Hotpatch Resolves Hyper-V PSDirect Security Hole
Microsoft has released KB5066360, a hotpatch that corrects a critical handshake regression in PowerShell Direct without requiring a system restart. The update, which lands on eligible Windows Server...
Microsoft AI Chief Warns Seemingly Conscious AI Could Trigger Psychosis in Windows Users
Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft’s head of consumer AI, has issued a stark operational warning: the gravest near-term danger from artificial intelligence is not that machines will become conscious, but...
Microsoft Embeds Copilot Chat Pane in Office Apps, Turning AI Into a Workplace Utility
Microsoft has flipped the switch on a long-anticipated overhaul of its productivity suite, planting Copilot Chat directly inside Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote. The move, part of a...
BlinkOps agentic automation for Microsoft Sentinel slashes MTTR with no-code micro-agents
Microsoft Sentinel users now have a new weapon in their automation arsenal: BlinkOps’ agentic security platform is available immediately through the Azure Marketplace and the Sentinel Content Hub,...
Oracle's Exadata X11M and AI Cloud Push Are Forcing a Rethinking of the Enterprise Stack
Oracle has quietly executed a pivot from database vendor to integrated cloud and AI infrastructure player, and the implications for enterprise buyers weighing their options against Amazon Web...
MSI Claw 8 AI+ Is Windows’ Best Handheld, but Tariffs and Scarcity Keep It Out of Reach
When reviewers call a device the best Windows handheld ever made, you’d expect to find it on store shelves. But three months after the MSI Claw 8 AI+ launched to rapturous praise for its Lunar Lake...
Windows 10 and 11’s Crucial System Restore Is Often Disabled — Here’s How to Enable It in Under a Minute
Windows 10 and 11 ship with a powerful rollback feature that can undo system-wrecking changes in minutes—but Microsoft often leaves it switched off. System Restore, officially called System...
Forget Windows 12: Microsoft’s 25H2 Update Is a Stealth Lifecycle Reset
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Microsoft Adds Task View to Xbox Controller Long-Press in Windows 11 Insider Builds
Microsoft has quietly begun remapping the Xbox controller’s central Guide button in recent Windows 11 Insider builds, introducing a three-tier input system that signals a major shift toward...
Windows Mobile Plans App Will Vanish in 2026 as Microsoft Hands eSIM Sales to Carriers
Microsoft has set a hard retirement date for its built-in Mobile Plans app: February 27, 2026. After that, the small storefront that lets cellular‑capable Windows laptops and tablets buy data plans...
When AI Confuses You with a Criminal: The Executive’s Guide to Digital Self-Defense
A single sentence from an AI assistant can now brand you a criminal, a political extremist, or a fraud—even if you’ve never set foot in a courtroom. That chilling reality struck Jason Barnard in...