Windows 11 24h2
The latest Windows 11 24h2 coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Windows 11 KB5094126 Update Triggers Boot Failures and BitLocker Lockouts Across Orgs
The June 2026 Patch Tuesday rollout has turned into a firefight for IT administrators as Windows 11 updates KB5094126 and KB5093998 cause blue screens of death, system freezes, and BitLocker recovery...
Windows 11 24H2 Stops ‘Hot Bag’ Sleep Drain with Wake Source Throttling
Windows 11 version 24H2 delivers a long-awaited fix for one of laptop users' most persistent frustrations: the dreaded \"hot bag\" scenario. Microsoft has quietly introduced a suite of changes to...
Microsoft’s June 2026 Patch Fixes Secure Boot Bypass Threatening VSM Secrets
Microsoft addressed a serious security feature bypass in Windows Secure Boot with the June 2026 Patch Tuesday updates. Tracked as CVE-2026-45654, the vulnerability carries an Important severity...
Windows 11 June Update Adds NPU Monitor, Low-Latency Audio & Shared Bluetooth
Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday for June 2026 lands on June 9, and it’s packing more than the usual security bulletins. Codenamed internally as a “quality-of-life” refresh, this cumulative update...
Windows 11 KB5089573 Ends 20-Year User Folder Name Truncation
After decades of user complaints, Microsoft finally gives Windows 11 installers a simple way to set the C:\Users folder name. The optional May 26, 2026 preview update KB5089573 for Windows 11...
Intel Copilot+ PCs Get Major AI Camera Boost with KB5096571 Update
Microsoft has begun rolling out KB5096571, an automatic update for Windows 11 24H2 that targets the Image Processing AI component on Intel-powered Copilot+ PCs. Released on May 26, 2026, the update...
KB5096137: The Windows Update That Gives Snapdragon Laptops an AI Brain Boost
Microsoft has released KB5096137, an automatic update for Windows 11 version 26H1, upgrading the Qualcomm QNN Execution Provider to version 2.2605.2.0. The patch fine-tunes how Snapdragon-powered PCs...
KB5096136 lands on Windows 11 26H1: A quiet AI update that matters for AMD Ryzen AI PCs
Microsoft released KB5096136 this week, a small automatic update for Windows 11 version 26H1 that bumps the AMD Vitis AI Execution Provider from version 2.2604.1.0 to 2.2605.2.0. While the change...
Microsoft Just Updated the Local AI Model on Your AMD Copilot+ PC—Here’s What You Need to Know
Microsoft has quietly released KB5096570, a fresh servicing update that bumps the Phi Silica AI component to version 1.2604.515.0 for AMD-powered Copilot+ PCs running Windows 11 version 26H1. The...
Assassin’s Creed Origins crack forces Windows users to disable Secure Boot, install custom keys.
A new pirated release of Assassin’s Creed Origins Gold Edition has surfaced, engineered explicitly for Windows 11 version 24H2. The crack bundles Ubisoft’s official 1.62 game patch with a fresh...
KB5089549 Fixes Windows 11 Explorer Freeze After Sign-In
Microsoft has released KB5089549, a cumulative update for Windows 11 versions 24H2 and 25H2, fixing a maddening bug that caused explorer.exe to freeze or crash immediately after sign-in, leaving the...
Secure Boot Certificate Upgrade: 2011 Keys Expire 2026—Act Now
Every Windows PC that relies on Secure Boot faces a hard deadline in the summer of 2026. On July 1, 2026, the root certificate that has authenticated the Windows boot process since the days of...