Articles from June 26, 2026
Browse all Windows news articles published on June 26, 2026
Wacom W9000 Series Pen Touchscreens Get Long-Awaited Linux Driver Support
A new open-source input driver is bringing native support for a family of legacy Wacom pen-enabled touchscreens to the Linux kernel. The wacom_w9000 driver, reportedly merged for the upcoming Linux...
Microsoft Bans Mscenery from Flight Simulator Marketplace After AI Image Scandal
Microsoft abruptly pulled every Mscenery add-on from the Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 and 2024 in-game marketplaces on June 25, 2026. The unprecedented mass removal follows a wave of user...
Microsoft Pledges Ukraine Free Cloud, Cybersecurity Support Through 2027 at Gdansk Summit
Microsoft will continue to provide free cloud computing and cybersecurity services to Ukraine through the end of 2027, the company announced on June 26, 2026, during an event in Gdańsk, Poland. The...
Italy's Antitrust Watchdog Opens Probe into Microsoft Over Covert 365 Copilot Bundling and Price Surge
Italy’s competition authority, the Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato (AGCM), launched a formal investigation on June 26, 2026, into Microsoft over allegations of unfair commercial...
ASIO Director-General Mike Burgess: State Hackers Stole Admin Credentials, Mapped Network for Sabotage
Australia’s top intelligence official has confirmed that a nation-state hacking group quietly infiltrated an Australian critical infrastructure provider, stealing administrative credentials and...
NPUs Storm Windows PCs: The 2026 AI Chip Showdown Redrawing Cloud Economics
By 2026, the neural processing unit (NPU) will be as common in Windows laptops as a webcam. This quiet integration marks the most significant shift in personal computing silicon since the GPU became...
Intel Stock Surges After Trump Reveals Apple Partnership for U.S. Chip Manufacturing
Intel shares soared in early trading on June 18, 2026, following a surprise announcement by President Donald Trump that Apple has agreed to collaborate with the semiconductor giant on domestic chip...
Shadow AI Epidemic: 76% of Workers Already Bring Their Own AI to Work
Three out of four workers are already using AI tools on the job without their employer’s blessing, according to a May 2026 survey that exposes a massive gap between corporate AI policies and actual...
Adobe's Topaz Labs Deal Brings Cutting-Edge AI Video Upscaling to Windows Creators
Adobe will acquire Topaz Labs, the Texas-based AI imaging company, in a deal that brings advanced video upscaling, denoising, and stabilization tools natively into Creative Cloud. The announcement,...
Linux Kernel IPVS Flaw CVE-2026-45850 Gets Microsoft Security Advisory — Here's What Windows Users Need to Know
On May 27, 2026, the Linux kernel security team disclosed a significant vulnerability in the IP Virtual Server (IPVS) subsystem that has now drawn a rare public advisory from Microsoft. Tracked as...
Italian Antitrust Watchdog Targets Microsoft Over Unexplained AI Bundling in 365 Price Hikes
Italy’s competition authority, the Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato (AGCM), opened a formal investigation on June 26, 2026, into Microsoft’s Irish and Italian subsidiaries over...
Nvidia’s 20-Year CUDA Moat: Why Raw Benchmarks Can’t Topple the AI GPU King
Nvidia’s stranglehold on the AI accelerator market doesn’t come from faster silicon—it comes from a software ecosystem 20 years in the making. While AMD routinely ships GPUs with impressive...