Articles from 2026
Browse all Windows news articles published in 2026
Four-Hour Azure West US Outage Traced to Network Change, Rollback Brings Recovery
On July 23, 2026, at 14:44 UTC, Microsoft Azure’s West US region began experiencing intermittent connectivity failures and increased latency that rippled across dozens of critical services. A...
ThinManager Path Traversal Bug (CVE-2026-11917) Fixed: What Windows Admins Need to Do Now
A high-severity path traversal vulnerability in Rockwell Automation’s ThinManager platform received patches on July 14, with the advisory republished by CISA on July 21. The flaw, tracked as...
Chrome’s Red Underlines Disappeared? Here’s How to Restore Spell Check on Windows, Mac, and Mobile
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Microsoft Retires Old Edge Password Menus—Here’s Where Your Passwords Live Now
Microsoft has quietly retired the Wallet and Authenticator-based password interfaces within Edge, consolidating everything under a single 'Microsoft Password Manager' hub inside the browser’s...
Panduit IntraVUE’s 10.0-Rated Flaws Demand Immediate Isolation—Here’s Your Action Plan
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency released an urgent advisory on July 23, 2026, warning that multiple flaws in Panduit IntraVUE—a network monitoring tool deeply embedded in...
Critical Flaw in Johnson Controls C•CURE 9000 Allows Takeover—Patch Now, CISA Warns
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued an urgent advisory on July 23, 2026, warning that a critical vulnerability in Johnson Controls’ C•CURE 9000 and victor...
Windows Servers at Risk: lib60870 Flaw Lets Attackers Crash Industrial Communications
On July 23, 2026, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued an advisory warning that a single malformed network message can crash software using one of the most widely...
Acer’s New TravelMate Claims ‘Sub-1kg’—But That Depends on the Screen You Pick
Acer has taken the wraps off a refreshed business laptop lineup, anchored by a machine that claims to slip under the elusive 1-kilogram mark. The TravelMate P6 14 AI, as first reported by Absolute...
Windows Workstations at Risk: libIEC61850 1.6.2 Closes Critical Flaws in Widespread Industrial Protocol Library
On July 23, 2026, MZ Automation released version 1.6.2 of its open-source IEC 61850 protocol library, patching several high-severity vulnerabilities that had been present in all releases from 1.0.0...
That 'Best Server CPU' Guide Is Going Viral. Here's What It Gets Wrong About Used Xeon and EPYC Chips
A buyer’s guide claiming to name the 12 best server CPUs for August 2026 has been making the rounds, and it prominently recommends processors like the Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4, Xeon E5-2699 v4, and...
Intel Xeon 6 Servers Now Run Compressed Llama 3.3 70B at 3.86 Tokens/s, Cutting Latency in Half
On July 23, 2026, Multiverse Computing demonstrated that its CompactifAI-compressed version of the Llama 3.3 70B large language model can run on a single Intel Xeon 6 processor with...
Johnson Controls XAAP Android Vulnerability Puts Local Data at Risk: Here's the Fix
Johnson Controls has released a critical update for its XAAP Android application, addressing a vulnerability that could expose sensitive data stored on the device. The flaw, tracked as...