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Windows 10’s October 2025 Sunset: Here’s How to Run Windows Apps on Linux
October 14, 2025 marks the end of support for Windows 10, leaving millions of users without security updates. For many, this deadline is a catalyst to finally migrate their workflows to Linux—but a...
Beta Tool WinBoat Runs Full Windows on Linux via Docker, but Expect Setup Hurdles
For years, Linux users needing Windows applications have relied on compatibility layers like Wine or full virtual machines. A new open-source project called WinBoat takes a different route: it runs...
Windows 11 Slashed Security Incidents by 62%, But VPNs Are Still Essential for Network Defense
Windows 11's hardware-enforced security baseline cut reported security incidents by up to 62%, but it doesn't encrypt your network traffic. That's where a VPN comes in, transforming a hardened device...
RDP Timing Attacks Explode to 30,000 Malicious IPs in Pre-Attack Reconnaissance on U.S. Schools
Last week, threat intelligence firm GreyNoise observed a coordinated scanning campaign targeting Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) services that rapidly escalated from an initial wave of nearly...
KDE Plasma 6.4.3 Adopts Windows-Like Smart Scaling, Nixes Blurry Fractional Defaults
KDE Plasma 6.4.3 lands with a subtle but significant tweak to its automatic screen scale calculator on Wayland: it now rounds down borderline default scale factors to 100%, eschewing the fractional...
Cloud Hosting Offers Mac Users a Full Windows Desktop for POHODA Accounting Without Local VMs
{ "title": "Cloud Hosting Offers Mac Users a Full Windows Desktop for POHODA Accounting Without Local VMs", "content": "Mac users who depend on the Czech accounting package POHODA have long been...
5 VM Myths That Are Wrecking Your Home Lab Setup — and How to Fix Them
Most Windows enthusiasts have heard that virtual machines are too complex, resource-hungry, or insecure for home use. Those claims are largely fiction. Persistent myths around VM technology push...
Emergency Patches Released for Windows RDS DoS Vulnerability (CVE-2025-53722)
Microsoft on August 12, 2025 pushed emergency security updates to fix a critical flaw in Windows Remote Desktop Services that lets attackers crash servers from across the internet—no password or...
Patch Now: Critical Windows PrintWorkflowUserSvc Flaws Allow Attackers to Gain SYSTEM Privileges
Microsoft's December 2024 Patch Tuesday included a fix for CVE-2024-49095, a high-severity elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Windows PrintWorkflowUserSvc service that could give attackers...
New Win32k GRFX Race Condition Lets Attackers Hijack Windows Systems — Patch Now
A race-condition vulnerability in the Windows Win32k GRFX kernel component, assigned CVE-2025-53132, enables local attackers to escalate privileges to SYSTEM and take full control of an unpatched...
Microsoft Patches CVE-2025-50176: DirectX Kernel Type-Confusion Bug Allows SYSTEM Compromise
Microsoft has issued a critical security update for CVE-2025-50176, a type-confusion vulnerability in the DirectX Graphics Kernel (dxgkrnl) that allows an authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary...
Microsoft Warns of DirectX Kernel DoS Flaw That Can Crash Hosts Through Unchecked Graphics Allocations
Microsoft has issued a security advisory for CVE-2025-50172, a vulnerability in the DirectX Graphics Kernel that allows an authenticated attacker to exhaust system resources and cause a...