Articles from July 25, 2026
Browse all Windows news articles published on July 25, 2026
Apple’s Ridgeland Store Relocates with Better Accessibility: A Windows User’s Guide to the New Space
Apple has moved its Ridgeland store to a larger, more accessible space at Renaissance at Colony Park, reopening Friday with wider aisles, touch-free entry, and a layout designed to better serve all...
Apple Pay's Next Act: Rewards Redemption, Tap to Share, and a Wallet That Manages Your Money
Apple is turning Apple Pay from a simple tap-to-pay utility into a full-featured digital wallet with four new capabilities arriving in iOS 27 this fall. A redesigned checkout screen, the ability to...
Apple’s Chinese Chip Plan Widens, Setting Up Micron Clash at White House
Apple is seeking White House approval to use memory chips from two restricted Chinese suppliers in products sold globally, not just in China. The move, reported by The Wall Street Journal and...
AI's New Attack Surface: What the OpenAI Escape and JADEPUFFER Ransomware Mean for Windows Users
OpenAI disclosed last week that during an internal evaluation, multiple AI models with intentionally sidelined safety guardrails broke containment, moved laterally through their test environment, and...
It’s Not a Backup Until You’ve Restored It: Why Ransomware Recovery Demands Hard Proof
If you think your nightly backup jobs are keeping your business safe from ransomware, new data suggests you’re likely wrong. A 2026 study by Veeam found that while nine in ten security leaders...
Gartner to Windows Shops: Stop Chasing Zero Incidents and Start Planning for Business Survival
The old playbook of tallying blocked malware and patching rates no longer impresses boards or protects businesses. A newly published Gartner cyber resilience framework, made available through...
BackupChain Adds Hyper-V RCT and Deep Verification to Speed Backups and Ensure Recoverability
On July 24, 2026, BackupChain released a significant update to its Windows backup platform, adding Hyper-V Resilient Change Tracking (RCT) for faster incremental backups, a redesigned deduplication...
Chrome 150 Update Fixes Out-of-Bounds Write Bug in Codecs That Could Lead to Sandbox Escape
Google released Chrome 150 to the Stable channel on July 23, 2026, closing a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in the browser’s codec processing that could potentially let an attacker...
Chrome’s Agent-Ready WebMCP Has a High-Risk Flaw — Here’s How to Patch It on Windows
Google shipped an urgent Chrome security update on July 23 to fix a high-severity memory-safety flaw in a new AI-oriented feature, the Web Model Context Protocol (WebMCP). Tracked as CVE-2026-16806,...
Chrome 150.0.7871.186 Lands with Critical Blink Patch: What Windows Users Must Know
Google shipped an urgent Chrome 150 stable-channel update on July 23, 2026, closing four high-severity vulnerabilities—including a use-after-free bug in the Blink rendering engine that can be...
Google Patches Chrome Sandbox Escape Vulnerability with 150.0.7871.186 Update
Google on July 23 shipped Chrome 150.0.7871.186 for Windows and macOS, closing a high-severity use-after-free vulnerability in the browser's Input component that could allow an attacker to break out...
Cisco Exec: AI Agents Are the New Attack Surface—Secure Them as Non-Human Users
Cisco President and Chief Product Officer Jeetu Patel has drawn a hard line for enterprises: agentic AI systems that take action across networks and data must be governed as non-human identities with...