Articles from 2025
Browse all Windows news articles published in 2025
The Windows Declutter Blueprint: Safe Steps to Free Gigabytes Without Sacrificing Stability
Windows installations are notorious for accumulating junk. Over time, update remnants, restore points, indexing databases, and preinstalled bloatware can consume tens of gigabytes and slow down even...
How NZ Finance Teams Are Using AI to Cut 275 Hours Per Employee—and the 10 Tools Leading the Charge
New Zealand finance teams are no longer asking whether AI belongs in the back office. They’re asking which tool will shave the most hours off the month-end close, which platform will turn messy...
From Scrabble Cheating to Minivan Packing: 6 Gemini Live Hacks That Show Multimodal AI’s Promise and Perils
Pointing your phone’s camera at a Scrabble board to get real-time word suggestions, asking it to identify a Barred Owl’s call, or even demanding it tally golf scores as you play — these...
Meet Flyoobe, the 334 KB Toolkit That Bends Windows 11’s OOBE to Your Will
Flyoobe 1.11.361 lands with a singular promise: slide past Windows 11’s TPM, Secure Boot, and CPU generation checks while reshaping the out-of-box experience into something you actually control....
Microsoft's $80 Billion AI Bet Divides the IT Industry Into Clear Winners and Losers
Microsoft plans to pour $80 billion into AI-capable data centers in fiscal 2025 alone, a sum that crystallizes the hyperscaler arms race and forces every corner of the IT industry to confront an...
1,224 Vulnerabilities, 129+ PoCs: Inside the Patch Tuesday Deluge Threatening Enterprise and ICS Systems
Security teams faced a firestorm last Patch Tuesday as Cyble tracked 1,224 new vulnerabilities in a single week—more than 129 of them accompanied by public proof-of-concept code that accelerates...
73 Windows 11 Shortcuts to Master Before October's Windows 10 Shutdown
With the clock ticking toward Windows 10’s final security update on October 14, 2025, millions of users face a choice: migrate to Windows 11 or pay for extended support. But there’s a silver...
Microsoft Lifts 9-Month Windows 11 24H2 Hold for Dirac Audio PCs
Microsoft has officially removed the compatibility hold that prevented thousands of PCs with Dirac Audio from installing Windows 11 version 24H2, ending a nearly nine–month upgrade freeze that...
CVE-2025-53136: Windows 11 Update Leaks Kernel Pointers, Defeating KASLR
Microsoft's attempt to seal a kernel security hole has backfired. A patch originally shipped in October 2024 to fix CVE-2024-43511 inadvertently created a new vulnerability—tracked as...
Firefox’s Enterprise-Only AI Kill Switch Betrays Consumer Trust, Sparks Privacy Backlash
Mozilla has quietly armed IT administrators with a supported, one-click method to disable every generative AI feature in Firefox—but regular users who crave the same simplicity are being told to...
Windows 11 Insider Update Delivers Smoother Auto-Hide Taskbar, Tests Copilot Suggestions in Start
Microsoft is using its latest Windows 11 Insider preview builds to simultaneously fix a years-old taskbar annoyance and experiment with turning the Start menu into a promotional surface for its...
Windows 11 25H2: Sudo, Wi-Fi 7, and Native Archives Arrive, but Copilot+ AI Still Gated
Microsoft began rolling out Windows 11 version 25H2 this week, delivering a lightweight enablement package that activates several practical features seeded into the 24H2 codebase—including a native...