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The latest Sandbox coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Sandboxie Plus 1.16.9 & Classic 5.71.9: Major Stability Update Fixes Longstanding Issues
The Sandboxie project has released significant stability-focused updates for both its modern and legacy branches, addressing numerous compatibility and reliability issues that have plagued users for...
Firefox 143 Update Turns Favorite Sites into Windows Taskbar Apps, Adds Copilot
Mozilla has shipped Firefox 143 with a feature Windows users have requested for years: the ability to pin any website to the taskbar as a standalone web app. The update—rolling out now through the...
Nano11 Downsizes Windows 11 to a 2.29GB ISO — Here’s What You Lose
A new script called nano11 can compress a full Windows 11 installation into a 2.29GB ISO — a fraction of the original 7GB — by surgically removing everything from Xbox games and Solitaire to...
CVE-2025-53136: Windows 11 Update Leaks Kernel Pointers, Defeating KASLR
Microsoft's attempt to seal a kernel security hole has backfired. A patch originally shipped in October 2024 to fix CVE-2024-43511 inadvertently created a new vulnerability—tracked as...
Windows 11 Beta Build 26120.6682: Copilot Prompt Box, Emoji 16, and Critical Fixes Arrive
Microsoft dropped Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.6682 (KB5065782) into the Beta Channel on September 12, 2025, equipping Copilot+ PCs with an on-device prompt box inside the Click to Do...
CVE-2025-55319: How Agentic AI in Visual Studio Code Can Enable Remote Code Execution
A newly listed vulnerability in Microsoft’s Security Response Center, CVE-2025-55319, pulls back the curtain on a dangerous new class of attacks: prompt injections that weaponize agentic AI...
The Norwegian Legal AI Blueprint: How Vaults, Tenant Isolation, and Human Review Keep Data Safe
Norwegian law firms are plunging into generative AI, but they’re not leaving compliance to chance. A newly enforced Lawyer Act, the country’s strict Personal Data Act (PDA/GDPR), and the EU AI...
Windows 11's Security Paradox: How UAC, Smart App Control, and VBS Can Weaken Your Defenses
Microsoft has equipped Windows 11 with a formidable arsenal of built-in security features, but a growing body of evidence—from community audits to formal benchmark studies—shows that four of...
Microsoft Copilot's Policy Flaw Allows Blocked AI Agents to Resurface, Creating Governance and Audit Nightmares
Enterprise administrators who thought they had locked down Microsoft 365 Copilot agents are discovering that tenant-wide "No users can access" settings have been silently ignored for certain agents,...
KB5062553 Fails to Install on Windows 11? Proven Fixes for Error 0x800f0922 and More
Windows 11’s July 2025 cumulative update KB5062553 is refusing to install on a significant number of PCs, triggering rollbacks and cryptic error codes like 0x800f0922, 0x80073712, and 0x80071a2d....
Copilot Agent Blocking Broken: Admins Discover Policies Fail Across Teams, Outlook
Organizations relying on Microsoft Copilot's agent policies to restrict AI access are confronting a stark reality: the controls have been breaking silently. In recent weeks, multiple independent...
SharePoint, Cisco, Apple Zero-Days Headline 908-CVE Weekly Vulnerability Barrage
Security researchers tracked 908 new vulnerabilities in the last seven days, more than 188 of which already have publicly available proof-of-concept exploits, according to Cyble’s latest weekly...