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Windows 11 Patch Shuts Down Live Broadcasts; NDI Users Must Switch Protocols
Live video production pipelines across the globe seized up this week after Microsoft’s August 2025 security update for Windows 11 introduced a crippling regression in NDI streaming. The cumulative...
KB5063878 Triggers Cross-Vendor NVMe SSD Disappearances, Phison Disowns Forged Warning
A forged internal memo claiming Windows 11’s August cumulative update was catastrophically destroying Phison-based SSDs was publicly disowned by Phison this week, even as the storage controller...
Patch Now: Microsoft's netbt.sys Kernel Flaw (CVE-2025-55230/47996) Grants Attackers Full Control
A local elevation-of-privilege flaw in the Windows MBT Transport driver—the kernel component behind NetBIOS over TCP/IP—can hand attackers full SYSTEM rights, and while Microsoft’s July 2025...
KB5063878 Triggers SSD Failures During Heavy Writes; Phison Pursues Legal Action Over Forged Advisory
SSD reliability on Windows 11 took a sharp hit this week after Microsoft's August 12 cumulative update, KB5063878, was linked to NVMe drives vanishing under sustained write loads. Phison, a leading...
Corsair, SanDisk, Kioxia NVMe Drives Vanish Under Load After Windows 11 Update KB5063878
A routine Patch Tuesday deployment spiraled into a storage crisis this week as Windows 11 update KB5063878 was linked to a wave of SSD and HDD failures, drive disappearances, and data...
KB5063878 Triggers NVMe SSD Failures on Windows 11 24H2—Here’s How to Protect Your Data
Microsoft’s August 2025 security update for Windows 11 24H2 is triggering severe storage regressions that can cause NVMe SSDs to vanish mid-write, and in some cases the damage is permanent....
Emergency Windows Updates Restore Reset and Recovery Tools Broken by August Patch Tuesday
Microsoft shipped out-of-band cumulative updates on August 19, 2025, to resurrect Windows’ broken recovery tools, just one week after its regular Patch Tuesday releases had inadvertently disabled...
Microsoft, Phison Find No Evidence That Windows 11 KB5063878 Causes SSDs to Vanish
After weeks of investigation, Microsoft and SSD controller manufacturer Phison have concluded that they could not reproduce the alarming reports of SSDs vanishing or being corrupted following the...
Microsoft Issues Out-of-Band Fix for Windows Reset Failures Caused by August Updates
Microsoft has released an emergency out-of-band update to address a regression that left many Windows 10 and Windows 11 PCs unable to complete critical recovery operations. The patch, designated...
KB5066189 and KB5066188: Microsoft’s Emergency Out-of-Band Patches Fix Broken Windows Recovery After August 2025 Rollouts
Microsoft shipped out-of-band (OOB) cumulative updates on August 19, 2025, to repair a critical regression in Windows’ built-in reset, cloud reimage, and RemoteWipe capabilities that had been...
Microsoft Releases Emergency Out-of-Band Updates After August Patch Tuesday Breaks Windows Recovery
Microsoft shipped urgent out-of-band (OOB) updates on August 19, 2025, after its August Patch Tuesday cumulative rollups caused built-in Windows recovery tools—Reset this PC, cloud reimage, and MDM...
Microsoft Fixes Broken Windows Reset and RemoteWipe with Urgent Out-of-Band Updates
Microsoft shipped three emergency out-of-band cumulative updates on August 19, 2025 to repair a critical regression that had rendered Windows’ built-in recovery tools inoperative across multiple...