Articles from 2026
Browse all Windows news articles published in 2026
Windows 11 KB5079473 March 2026: Patch Tuesday Failures and GPU Driver Conflicts
Microsoft's March 10, 2026 cumulative update for Windows 11, labeled KB5079473, has triggered widespread installation failures and GPU performance regressions across multiple hardware configurations....
Windows 11 KB5079473 March Update Causes System Instability: User Reports & Microsoft's Response
Microsoft's March 2026 cumulative update KB5079473, released on March 10, has triggered widespread reports of system instability across Windows 11 installations. The update, part of Microsoft's...
Microsoft Azure First to Validate NVIDIA NVL72 Rack for Trillion-Parameter AI Models
Microsoft Azure has become the first public cloud provider to achieve production validation for NVIDIA's NVL72 rack-scale AI system, marking a significant milestone in the race to deploy massive AI...
Kick ICT FY25 Results: Revenue Dips 6% to £27M While Margins Improve Under Private Equity Strategy
Glasgow-headquartered managed service provider Kick ICT reported a 6% revenue decline to £27.0 million for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2025. The company's EBITDA margin improved despite the...
Storm-2561 Campaign Targets VPN Users with SEO-Poisoned Trojanized Clients
Microsoft's threat intelligence team has identified a resurgence of credential harvesting attacks targeting VPN users through sophisticated SEO poisoning techniques. The cybercrime group tracked as...
Zlib 1.3.2 Patches CVE-2026-27171 CPU Exhaustion Flaw Affecting Windows Apps
A newly assigned vulnerability identifier, CVE-2026-27171, exposes a critical logic error in zlib's CRC combination functions that can lead to complete CPU exhaustion. The flaw affects all zlib...
CVE-2026-3381: Critical Perl Module Vulnerability Exposes Windows Systems to Supply Chain Attack
A critical vulnerability in the Compress::Raw::Zlib Perl module has been identified as CVE-2026-3381, exposing Windows systems that rely on Perl applications to potential supply chain attacks. The...
CVE-2026-31802: Critical Path Traversal Vulnerability in Node.js tar Library Threatens Windows Systems
A critical path traversal vulnerability in the widely used Node.js tar library has been assigned CVE-2026-31802, exposing Windows systems to potential arbitrary file writes and remote code execution....
Windows 11 Boot Regression Triggers BitLocker Lockouts, Microsoft Issues OOB Fix
Microsoft has confirmed a serious Windows 11 servicing regression that can render the system drive inaccessible, effectively locking users out of their C: drive. The company has released out-of-band...
MacBook Neo 8GB RAM Controversy: How Apple's Unified Memory Challenges Windows Laptop Assumptions
When Apple's $599 MacBook Neo shipped with just 8GB of unified memory, Windows users reacted with predictable skepticism. The immediate assumption was that such limited RAM would cripple performance,...
Windows 11 Dev Channel Update KB5079464 Expands Settings with Microsoft 365 Integration
Microsoft's latest Windows 11 Dev Channel build KB5079464 introduces significant changes to the Settings app's account management interface, bringing deeper Microsoft 365 integration and subscription...
Microsoft's Agent-Aware Internet Vision: AI-Native Infrastructure for Windows and Beyond
Microsoft's vision for an \"Agent-Aware Internet\" represents a fundamental rethinking of how digital infrastructure should evolve to accommodate the explosive growth of AI agents. The company's...