Articles from April 2026
Browse all Windows news articles published in April 2026
Critical CVE-2026-6919 Exploits DevTools to Break Out of Browser Sandboxes—Patch Chrome and Edge Now
On April 23, 2026, a dangerous vulnerability surfaced in the Chromium engine that powers Chrome, Edge, and most modern browsers. CVE-2026-6919 isn’t the kind of bug that lets a malicious webpage...
SAS Aims to Tame Enterprise AI Sprawl with New Navigator Platform, Coming to Azure Marketplace in 2026
SAS used its Innovate 2026 conference to announce SAS AI Navigator, a standalone SaaS platform designed to bring order to the growing chaos of AI models, agents, and large language model tools inside...
Chrome's Latest Android Fix Isn't Just an Android Problem—Here's Why Windows Users Need to Pay Attention
Google shipped Chrome 147.0.7727.117 for Android on Tuesday, patching a high-severity GPU bug that could let an attacker escape the browser's protective sandbox after first compromising the renderer...
PowerToys 0.99.0 Makes Window Dragging Effortless and Puts Monitor Controls in Your System Tray
Microsoft shipped PowerToys version 0.99.0 this week, and the update’s marquee addition is a tool that lets you reposition and resize any window by holding the Alt key and clicking anywhere inside...
CISA's Latest KEV Update: ScreenConnect Path Traversal and Windows Shell Spoofing Exploited in Wild
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency added two fresh vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on Monday, confirming that attackers are actively exploiting both a...
Canonical Outlines a Privacy-First AI Roadmap for Ubuntu, and It’s Nothing Like Windows Copilot
Canonical has revealed plans to integrate artificial intelligence into Ubuntu over the coming year, but the approach is deliberately divorced from the cloud-dependent, assistant-everywhere model that...
Vectra Warns Azure’s Monitoring Shift Opens a Logging Blind Spot—Here’s What to Do About It
Security researchers at Vectra AI have flagged a behavior in Microsoft’s Azure Monitor Agent architecture that could let an attacker shut off logging for dozens of virtual machines at once—using...
Microsoft Finally Makes Secure Boot Certificates Human-Readable with a Single PowerShell Switch
On April 28, 2026, Microsoft published KB5093574 detailing a small but transformative update to Windows PowerShell: the Get-SecureBootUEFI cmdlet now accepts a -Decoded switch that renders Secure...
Accenture's 743,000-Seat Copilot Rollout: The IT Admin's Playbook for Safe AI Adoption
Accenture has quietly completed the largest known enterprise deployment of Microsoft 365 Copilot, granting roughly 743,000 employees access to the AI assistant across more than 120 countries. The...
Your AI Copilot Just Got a Brain and a Boss: What Microsoft IQ and Agent 365 Really Do
Microsoft’s enterprise AI strategy made a hard pivot this week. On April 28, the company introduced Microsoft IQ and Agent 365, two interlocking efforts that recast its Copilot assistant from a...
OpenAI Breaks Free from Azure Exclusivity: What the New Multi-Cloud Deal Means for You
Microsoft and OpenAI rewrote the rulebook of their partnership late last week, ending a years-long exclusivity arrangement that made Azure the mandatory on-ramp for accessing OpenAI’s models. As...
Microsoft-OpenAI Exclusivity Ends, Unleashing GPT Models on AWS and Google Cloud
On April 28, 2026, Microsoft and OpenAI quietly amended their landmark partnership, ending the exclusive grip Azure held over the commercial distribution of GPT-4, GPT-5, and future frontier models....