Articles from July 2026
Browse all Windows news articles published in July 2026
The 114% Jump in High-Risk Car Vulnerabilities Is a Wake-Up Call for Windows IT Teams
High-severity automotive vulnerabilities more than doubled between the first and second quarters of 2026, jumping from 75 to 161, according to PCA Cyber Security’s latest analysis. The surge...
Windows 11’s Defender Antivirus Just Matched the Best Paid Suites—and That Changes Everything
Microsoft’s own antivirus, long dismissed as bare-minimum protection, has just earned top scores in independent tests—forcing a rethink of whether Windows 11 users still need to buy security...
Fake Tech Support Posts on Steam Silently Install XMRig Cryptominer on Gamers’ PCs
Attackers are exploiting Steam’s community forums with a new social engineering campaign that tricks players into running malicious PowerShell commands. These commands, disguised as fixes for...
AudioAuditor: Free Windows Tool Exposes Fake Lossless Audio and AI Music
A developer known as Angel2mp3 released AudioAuditor on July 28, 2026—a free, open-source Windows application that bundles a full-featured audio player with a forensic analysis engine capable of...
Turtle Beach’s Modular H.O.T.A.S. Hits Xbox and PC with 73 Programmable Inputs
Turtle Beach announced three new flight-simulation controllers on July 27: the VelocityOne Flightstick II, VelocityOne Dual Throttle, and VelocityOne H.O.T.A.S. system. All launch on September 21,...
How to Unlock 5 Hidden Nvidia RTX Features for Sharper Video, Clearer Calls, and Smoother Games
Your Nvidia RTX graphics card can do much more than render frames in Cyberpunk 2077. According to a recent overview from BGR (July 27), the GPU’s Tensor Cores, dedicated video encoder, and AI...
Your Teams Mobile Calendar Could Disappear in 2026 Unless You Update Now
Microsoft has announced that the Teams apps for iOS and Android must be updated by late October 2026. If an organization or individual fails to do so, the Calendar feature on those mobile devices...
ASRock’s 4U16X-GNR2 Crams 8 NVIDIA B300 GPUs, Two Xeons, and Liquid Cooling Into a Dense AI Node
If you think 4U of rack space is generous, ASRock Rack’s latest server will force you to recalibrate. The 4U16X-GNR2, shown publicly for the first time at a tech event in Taipei and detailed in a...
NVIDIA Pumps $1 Billion Into NAVER to Build a 200MW Sovereign AI Factory in Korea
NVIDIA has agreed to invest $1 billion in South Korean internet giant NAVER, taking a 4.5% stake as part of a plan to transform the company’s GAK Sejong campus into a 200-megawatt AI factory by...
When LDAPS fails: Solving event ID 36884 and the SSL/TLS confusion behind it
An administrator opens Event Viewer on a Windows Server and finds a Schannel error: event ID 36884. The description warns that the certificate received from the remote server does not contain the...
37-Partner Push to Make AI Agents Safe: What Nvidia and Microsoft's New Alliance Means for Windows Users
Nvidia, Microsoft, and 35 other companies on Monday launched the Open Secure AI Alliance, a coalition that pledges to build open-source security tools defenders can run locally—a direct answer to a...
‘My Truck Needed a New Battery at 12,000 Miles’: Cybertruck High-Voltage Failures Raise Charging Questions
A handful of Tesla Cybertruck owners are encountering an alarming problem: high-voltage battery pack failures that require complete replacements, sometimes after just a few thousand miles. Two owners...