Articles from July 18, 2026
Browse all Windows news articles published on July 18, 2026
Your RTX 5000 GPU Is Missing a Hotspot Sensor in Afterburner—Here’s the Fix
If you’ve recently plugged in an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5000-series GPU—whether a desktop 5090 or a laptop 5080—and launched MSI Afterburner to check temperatures, you likely noticed that the...
RTX 50 GPU Hotspot Data Now Available: How to Test Your Card and Prevent Thermal Throttling
After 18 months of silence from NVIDIA, RTX 50-series graphics card owners can finally read their GPU's true peak temperature. On July 16, 2026, CPUID released HWMonitor 1.65.1, a minor update that...
Acura’s Free Gemini Upgrade Is Rolling Out Now: Check Your Model, Trim, and Account Settings
On July 16, 2026, Acura quietly confirmed that Google’s conversational Gemini AI is coming to a narrow slice of its lineup—at no charge. The over-the-air update lands automatically on eligible...
Radeon RX 9070 XT Missing from 'Best 4K GPUs' List — What Buyers Need to Know
A freshly published roundup of the best 4K gaming graphics cards for 2026 has a glaring hole: it ignores AMD’s Radeon RX 9070 XT entirely. The guide, published July 17 by PropelRC, crowns...
Infinix HOT 70 Pro 5G Promises 5 Years of Security Updates—but Only if You Spend More
Infinix announced the HOT 70 Pro 5G on July 16, and while the device packs a 144Hz display and a capable MediaTek chipset, its standout feature is a software support commitment that rivals flagships:...
Android 16 Lock-Screen Bug Lets Anyone Send SMS via Gemini Without PIN—Patch Incoming
Google acknowledged a serious lock-screen flaw in Android 16 that lets anyone with physical access to a locked phone bypass the PIN and use Gemini to send SMS messages and activate WhatsApp...
UEFI Secure Boot 2011 Certificates Expire Oct 19—Use This Microsoft Script to Prepare
Microsoft’s July 15 Secure Boot Office Hours session confirmed that the final 2011-era certificate, the Windows Production PCA 2011, will expire on October 19, 2026. The event also revealed a...
AMD’s Local AI Agent GAIA 0.22.0 Can Now Draft Emails in Your Writing Style
AMD released version 0.22.0 of its open-source GAIA local AI-agent framework this week, giving Windows and Linux users a beta email agent that drafts replies in their personal style, tracks...
Intel-Nvidia AI PCs Could Arrive in 2028: What Windows Users Need to Know Now
Intel and Nvidia are jointly developing a new class of x86 PCs that will integrate Nvidia RTX graphics directly into the processor, with the first client products potentially arriving in late 2027 or...
AMD ROCm 7.14 Gives AI Developers GPU Compute Access to Ryzen AI Max PRO 400 Before Hardware Ships
AMD has officially added support for its upcoming Ryzen AI Max PRO 400 processors to the ROCm 7.14 GPU compute stack, giving machine learning engineers and AI developers full access to the chips'...
Microsoft Defender Earns Perfect Score in Latest Test, Narrowing the Case for Paid Antivirus Suites
Microsoft Defender Antivirus just aced its latest independent exam. In AV-TEST’s March/April 2026 evaluation of Windows 11 consumer security products, the built-in protection scored a flawless 18...
Microsoft Retires Outlook's Context IQ: What the / Shortcut's Death Means for Your Email Workflow
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