Articles from 2026
Browse all Windows news articles published in 2026
Host-Crashing QEMU Bug Hits Windows Guests: Patch CVE-2026-3842 Now
A virtualization vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-3842 lets a Windows guest on a QEMU/KVM host trigger an out-of-bounds memory write that crashes the host process, Microsoft confirmed in an advisory...
BusyBox 1.38.0 DoS Flaw Strikes Embedded Shells — Here’s How Windows Admins Should Respond
A newly disclosed vulnerability in the BusyBox 1.38.0 ash shell can be exploited remotely to crash devices and infrastructure critical to many Windows-centric networks. CVE-2026-38754, published by...
OpenSSL’s Key-Leaking DHX Flaw Puts Windows Apps at Risk: Here’s How to Respond
On June 9, 2026, a low-severity rating masked a serious cryptographic bug: OpenSSL’s DHX key validation could let an attacker reconstruct your private Diffie-Hellman key if the conditions are...
Microsoft Tests Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 Model for Copilot; Azure Launch Plans Revealed
Microsoft has begun internally testing Moonshot AI’s newly released Kimi K3 large language model for possible use in Copilot and plans to host the open-weight system on Azure, according to a July...
Teams Impersonation Scam Costs Pune Firm ₹56 Lakh, Call Saves ₹1.5 Crore
On July 13, a chief financial officer in Pune transferred ₹56 lakh to fraudsters after receiving a Microsoft Teams message that appeared to come from her company’s Italy-based CEO. The scheme...
Forget Flagships: Why the Ryzen 5 9600X and Radeon RX 9070 Are July 2026’s Smartest 1440p Gaming Duo
For months, PC builders chasing the 1440p holy grail found themselves caught between overpriced GPUs and CPUs that demanded more than they offered. That changed in July 2026. According to a new...
A 12x Speed Leap: How Kinaxis Turned a 3-Hour Supply Chain Wait Into a 17-Minute Task
On March 31, 2026, supply chain software maker Kinaxis reported an eye-opening result: a massive semiconductor planning model that once took more than three hours to calculate finished in roughly 17...
NVIDIA's Quiet Fiber Grab Could Build a Private AI Internet—And Change How Windows Shops Use GPUs
NVIDIA is reportedly buying up huge swaths of unlit long-haul fiber across the United States, potentially up to 100 fiber pairs, in a move that could give the company a private national backbone for...
You Can Now Set Up Windows 11 Using Only a Braille Display
{ "title": "You Can Now Set Up Windows 11 Using Only a Braille Display", "content": "Windows 11 Beta build 28020.2539, released on July 20, 2026, quietly delivers a milestone for accessibility:...
Google Search Can Now See Your Files and Tabs—Here's What Windows Users Need to Know
At Google I/O on May 19, 2026, the company rolled out the biggest redesign of its search box in more than a quarter-century. The new field dynamically expands for longer, natural-language questions,...
Microsoft Word vs Google Docs in 2026: The Feature Gap Is Smaller Than Ever, So Focus on Your Workflow
In 2026, Microsoft Word and Google Docs are no longer separated by a vast desert of missing features. Both now offer AI-powered writing assistants — Copilot in Word and Gemini in Docs — along...
EU Demands Open AI on Android by 2027, Apple Withholds Siri in EU
The European Commission has ordered Google to grant rival AI assistants substantially deeper access to Android by July 2027, while separately requiring the company to share anonymized Google Search...