Articles from July 2026
Browse all Windows news articles published in July 2026
Delinea Platform Now Lets You Veto an AI Agent's Risky Move Before It Strikes
Delinea has added a new layer of security that lets enterprise teams approve or block an AI agent’s actions in real time—after authentication but before the agent touches a production database,...
US Lawmakers Push Permanent DUV Ban for China: What It Means for Windows Hardware and AI Server Supply
U.S. lawmakers introduced a bill in April 2026 that would impose a permanent, country-wide ban on exporting deep ultraviolet (DUV) immersion lithography equipment to China and threaten to disrupt...
Researchers Propose On-Chip Vibrations to Link Distant Qubits Across a Silicon Wafer
On June 15, 2026, a paper in APL Quantum laid out a blueprint for connecting far-flung quantum bits without any wiring at all. The team from the University of Warwick and Canada’s National Research...
OpenAI’s Safety Classifier Blocked a Developer’s Bug Investigation — Here’s What Windows Users Need to Know
On July 29, 2026, security researcher Daniel Fox Franke found himself fighting an unexpected adversary while hunting down a segmentation fault in the open-source tool ripgrep. His AI assistant,...
Steam Deck OLED Finally Streams HDR from PC: Valve Beta How-To
Valve has finally unlocked high-dynamic-range streaming for its most vibrant handheld. A Steam Beta update released on July 29 lets owners of the Steam Deck OLED receive HDR video from a remote...
CISA Flags Actively Exploited Cisco Firewall Manager Flaw—Patch Immediately
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on July 29 added a hardcoded password vulnerability in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog,...
Why Microsoft’s Intel 18A Test Chip Isn’t the Windows Hardware News You Think It Is
Intel has officially completed the Pentagon-backed RAMP-C pilot on its next-generation 18A manufacturing process, a milestone that saw Microsoft, Nvidia, and IBM successfully tape out test chips. But...
Dell VEP4600: Old Edge Appliance Still Delivers for Network Services, But Not Heavy VMs
A new review by ServeTheHome proves that a 2018-era Dell edge appliance can still hold its own in branch-office networking—but don't expect it to run a cluster of Windows Server VMs. The Dell...
Kratos Phishing Kit: How Two Image Files Betray Microsoft 365 Attacks
In late July 2026, cybersecurity researchers at ANY.RUN uncovered a surprisingly simple way to spot one of the most persistent phishing operations targeting Microsoft 365 users. The Kratos...
Why Disney Is Ditching GitHub Copilot and What It Means for Windows Developers
Disney has notified its U.S. technology employees that it will remove GitHub Copilot from the list of approved AI coding tools later this summer, according to an internal message seen by Business...
HP Reveals 30 Percent of Its PCs Remain on Windows 10: Your Upgrade and Security Action Plan
HP has put a number on the Windows 10 migration gap: 30 percent of its PC installed base still runs the older operating system, HP CFO Karen Parkhill told investors during the company’s May 2026...
Hands-On: Collabora Office Edits Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Files on Android Without a Cloud Account
MakeUseOf put Collabora Office—a free, open-source Android suite built on the LibreOffice engine—through its paces with real-world Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files. The results, published in...