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KB5061096: Microsoft’s PowerShell Hotpatch Brings Urgent Fix, But Restart Risk Lingers
Microsoft dropped an out-of-band security update for Windows PowerShell on May 13, 2025, delivering KB5061096 as a rebootless hotpatch for devices enrolled in its Hotpatch program. The catch? If a...
Microsoft Flags Graphics Bug That Lets Attackers Grab System Control—Here’s Your Patching Plan
Microsoft’s latest security update addresses a race condition in the Windows graphics component that could allow an attacker with local access to escalate privileges to SYSTEM level. The...
Two Windows Bluetooth Flaws Could Give Attackers SYSTEM Access: Here’s What to Do
Microsoft has fixed two serious elevation-of-privilege vulnerabilities in the Windows Bluetooth Service that could be chained with other exploits to hand an attacker full control of an unpatched PC....
Microsoft Isn't Launching Windows 12 in 2025—Here's What You're Getting Instead
Microsoft isn’t shipping a product called Windows 12 in 2025. Instead, the company is pouring next-generation AI capabilities into Windows 11 and a new class of Copilot+ PCs—machines with...
Windows 10 Free Upgrade Scam Unleashed Ransomware That Locked Files Until Bitcoin Paid
In late July 2015, as millions of users rushed to upgrade to Windows 10, attackers sent convincing phishing emails offering the free update that instead deployed a ransomware variant known as...
Steam Sets January 2026 Deadline: 32-Bit Windows Support Ends, 0.01% of Players Affected
Valve has confirmed that the Steam client will stop receiving updates on 32-bit versions of Windows starting January 1, 2026, according to a report from Twisted Voxel citing the company. The move...
Firefox 143 Adds Microsoft Copilot and Windows Web Apps—Here’s How They Work
Mozilla shipped Firefox 143 to the stable channel this week, bringing two long-awaited capabilities to the open-source browser: a Microsoft Copilot option inside its AI sidebar, and a Labs experiment...
AMD RDNA4 GPUs Run AI Inference Faster on Linux Than Windows 11, New Benchmarks Show
When Phoronix pitted identical AMD hardware against itself in a cross-platform AI face-off, the results surprised no one who follows open-source driver development: Linux, armed with the latest...
Oracle's $144B Cloud Gamble: How the AI-First OCI Plan Affects Your Windows Workloads
On September 10, Oracle stunned Wall Street with a fiscal 2026 revenue forecast that projects its cloud infrastructure business will reach $144 billion by fiscal 2030—placing it squarely in...
The One-Entry Bluetooth Fix Windows Uses to Keep a 2006 Microsoft Mouse Alive
Microsoft has stashed a tiny, surgical compatibility table inside the Windows Bluetooth stack for one very specific purpose: rescuing the name of a mouse released in the XP era. Raymond Chen, a...
The 10 Open-Source Windows Apps ZDNET Says Every User Should Install Now
ZDNET recently published a curated list of ten open-source Windows applications, each free to download and use, that can replace expensive proprietary software while bolstering privacy and control....
Google’s Experimental Windows App Puts AI Search on Your Desktop—Here’s How It Works
Google has quietly started testing a native Windows application that places a powerful, AI-infused search bar directly on the desktop, summonable from anywhere with Alt + Space. The experiment,...