Articles from July 1, 2026
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Microsoft Defender in 2026: The Best Free Antivirus That Comes With Windows 11 — And Its Limits
Microsoft Defender once was the security equivalent of the \"I have a friend\" excuse. You’d tell your tech-savvy relatives to ditch it immediately and install something — anything — else. That...
ARToken Panel: How a React-Based Phishing Kit Is Hijacking Microsoft 365 Sessions via Device Code Attacks
Cisco Talos has unearthed a menacing new threat actor panel dubbed ARToken, a React-based operator dashboard that streamlines the entire kill chain for compromising Microsoft 365 accounts. Tightly...
Microsoft Delivers Urgent KB5095093 Fix for Windows 11 Emoji Panel as Google Retires Tenor's API
The Windows 11 emoji panel’s GIF search abruptly stopped functioning after Google deprecated the Tenor API on June 30, 2026, but Microsoft had already shipped a preview update—KB5095093 on June...
Apple’s New Creator Studio AI Update Aims to Lure Windows Users with Cross-App Intelligence
Apple has dropped a significant update to its Creator Studio subscription, rolling out AI-assisted features across its entire professional creative suite on June 30, 2026. The $12.99-per-month...
Supreme Court to Decide How Far Courts Can Rein in Apple's App Store Fees
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear Apple's appeal of a contempt ruling that could define the limits of judicial power over App Store payment practices, a decision with direct implications for...
Amex Points Now Redeemable Inside Apple Pay for iPhone and iPad Purchases
American Express cardholders can now dip into their Membership Rewards points directly at checkout when using Apple Pay on iPhone and iPad. The long-awaited integration, which went live on June 30,...
Portuguese Restaurant Kiosk Borked by Windows Code-Signing Check on WinRestKioskWPF.exe
A restaurant kiosk in Portugal ground to an unplanned halt on July 1, 2026, when Windows threw up a full-screen security warning refusing to run WinRestKioskWPF.exe. The error, photographed by a...
Rufus 4.15 Final Release Fixes ARM64 Boot Crashes and Adds RISC-V 64 Support
Rufus, the indispensable bootable USB creation tool for Windows users, rolled out its final update on June 30, 2026. Version 4.15 arrives as a swan song from developer Pete Batard, packing critical...
Azure Security Researcher Matthew Jensen Earns MVR Status After Exposing Entra ID Vulnerabilities in Zero Day Quest
On June 30, 2026, Microsoft’s Security Response Center (MSRC) published an in-depth profile of Matthew Jensen, a cloud security researcher whose path from hands-on IT administration to discovering...
HP Deploys OpenAI's Agentic AI to Revolutionize Windows Fleet Governance
HP Inc. made a decisive move yesterday, dramatically expanding its OpenAI Frontier partnership to infuse agentic artificial intelligence into the core of its Windows enterprise fleet management...
OpenAI Slashes AI Inference Costs by Over 50% with New Software Breakthrough
OpenAI engineers have reportedly developed a software optimization that cuts the inference cost of existing AI models by more than half, a move that could dramatically alter the economics of...
Nordic IT Leader Tieto Earns Microsoft Copilot Specialization, Strengthening Enterprise AI Credentials
Tieto, the Nordic technology services powerhouse, announced on July 1, 2026 that it has attained the Microsoft Copilot specialization under the Solutions Partner for Modern Work designation. The...