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Cyble’s weekly vulnerability roundup — circulated this week — reports an exceptionally high-volume disclosure period that compresses the defender’s window for triage: hundreds to more than a thousand new CVEs in seven days, dozens of high‑severity flaws, and a growing list of public proofs‑of‑concept (PoCs) already circulating. This surge forces security teams to move from checklist patching to threat‑informed prioritization and rapid containment. Background / Overview Cyble publishes a...

DisplayFusion is the tool many power users reach for when Windows’ built‑in multi‑display controls no longer cut it: it adds per‑monitor taskbars, fine‑grained wallpaper control, window positioning profiles, scripted automations and a long list of niceties that turn a clumsy multi‑monitor desktop into a predictable, repeatable workspace. This guide explains how to set up DisplayFusion, breaks down the key features you’ll actually use, validates technical details you should know before...

Treat this as a fire alarm: four national security agencies have issued coordinated, high‑urgency guidance telling organizations that on‑premises and hybrid Microsoft Exchange Server environments are being actively targeted and must be hardened immediately — and that a separate, critical Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) vulnerability is already being exploited in the wild. Background / Overview Microsoft Exchange Server occupies a privileged position in enterprise infrastructure: it...

Microsoft’s optional October preview for Windows 11, KB5067036, has been tied to a reproducible regression that leaves Task Manager’s underlying taskmgr.exe processes running after the window is closed — and repeated open/close cycles can spawn multiple hidden Task Manager instances that quietly consume memory and sometimes CPU, degrading responsiveness on some systems. Background / Overview KB5067036 was released as an optional, non-security preview cumulative update on October 28, 2025 and...

Microsoft’s recent optional preview update (KB5067036) introduced a surprising regression: closing Task Manager with the window “X” can leave the underlying taskmgr.exe process running, and each reopen spawns another live instance — producing duplicate Task Manager processes that quietly consume memory and, in aggregate, can degrade system performance on affected Windows 11 devices. Background / Overview The issue first surfaced after the October 28, 2025 preview roll‑out identified as...

The Windows 11 October 2025 update quietly but decisively reshapes everyday Windows workflows: it closes several longstanding usability wounds while folding deeply integrated AI — voice, vision, and agentic actions — into the core desktop experience. What arrives in this release is not merely feature polish; it’s a deliberate move to make Copilot a first‑class system assistant, to make the Taskbar and update flow reliably fast, and to give gamers and knowledge workers new in‑context help...

A veteran tinkerer has taken Windows 7 and stripped it down to an almost absurd extreme — a bootable x86 image that reports an on-disk size of just 69.0 MB — a proof‑of‑concept that vividly demonstrates the technical boundary between what an operating system needs to boot and what it needs to be useful. Background and overview Windows has always been a layered platform: a compact kernel and a set of core services on top of which sits a large, complex user‑mode runtime and a sprawling...

Google’s long-running experiment with tab groups has taken another practical step: Chrome Canary now lists closed saved tab groups inside the “Add tab to group” context menu, and will — in reported builds — move selected tabs into those closed groups and close them from the active window automatically to reduce clutter. This small but consequential change, visible in the latest Canary builds, joins a broader set of experiments that tie Chrome more tightly to Google’s Gemini AI stack (new NTP...

KPMG will begin measuring how staff use company AI tools and will include those measurements in annual performance reviews starting with the 2026 cycle, a significant shift that formalizes the expectation that consultants and professional-services staff must not only use generative AI but demonstrate measurable value from it in their day-to-day work. The move—reported across multiple major news outlets and described by KPMG’s internal AI leaders as tracking usage through enterprise tools...

Microsoft’s top AI executive, Mustafa Suleyman, used a high‑profile platform and a published essay this autumn to draw a firm line: current generative systems do not possess consciousness and, he argues, should never be treated as if they do. His intervention reframes the argument from abstract metaphysics to practical product design — warning that building systems that convincingly seem conscious would create immediate social, legal and mental‑health harms long before any settled science of...

Microsoft's role in OpenAI's ascent moved from tutor to lifeline: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman this week credited Satya Nadella's early conviction and Microsoft's multi‑billion dollar backing as decisive factors that enabled the company to scale from a research lab into the powerhouse behind ChatGPT and the latest frontier models. Background OpenAI and Microsoft began a formal commercial relationship in 2019 when Microsoft announced a $1 billion strategic investment and an exclusive cloud...

Mustafa Suleyman’s recent public intervention — bluntly separating intelligence from consciousness and urging engineers to stop building systems that appear to feel — has shifted a heated philosophical debate into the realm of product design and regulatory urgency, forcing Microsoft and its peers to confront not just what AI can do, but what it should be allowed to look like when doing it. Background / Overview Over the last year, Microsoft has accelerated the rollout of Copilot features...

Google Chrome’s grip on the web is no longer an unassailable fact — a perfect storm of regulatory pressure, platform-level competition, and a sudden rush of AI-first browsers is forcing Chrome to defend not just market share, but the very business model that made it dominant. Background For more than a decade Google Chrome has been the default choice for billions of users, building an ecosystem around speed, extensions, and deep integration with Google services. That dominance is measurable...

Microsoft has confirmed that recent Windows updates include stricter identity checks that can break NTLM and Kerberos authentication on systems that share duplicate machine Security Identifiers (SIDs), causing repeated credential prompts, failed logins, inaccessible SMB shares and broken RDP sessions on Windows 11 and Windows Server builds updated after August 29, 2025. Background / Overview Microsoft’s official support note (KB5070568) explains that updates released on and after August 29...

Amazon’s control plane hiccup last month was small in code and huge in consequence: an automated DNS-management race condition inside Amazon DynamoDB created an empty DNS record for the service’s regional endpoint, leaving thousands of services unable to resolve a key API hostname and setting off a 15‑hour cascade of failures that underlined how modern internet resilience is now inseparable from hyperscaler design choices. Background / Overview The incident began in the AWS US‑EAST‑1...

When Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform went dark on the afternoon of October 29, 2025, the interruption did not feel like a garden‑variety outage. It arrived as a vivid, global reminder that the internet — and modern business — now rides on a surprisingly small number of centralized control planes. Beginning around 16:00 UTC (12:00 p.m. Eastern), an inadvertent configuration change in Azure Front Door (AFD), Microsoft’s global edge and application delivery fabric, triggered cascading failures...

LinkedIn will start using public profile data from members in the European Union and other regions to train its generative AI models — a change that goes live on November 3, 2025 and is enabled by default unless users take action to opt out. Background LinkedIn’s parent company, Microsoft, has steadily folded generative AI features into the professional network’s product suite over the past two years. The platform says the purpose of the new data policy is to improve content-generation...

Microsoft has quietly closed a small but long‑standing Windows annoyance: the “Update and shutdown” option — which for many users installed updates only to leave PCs powered on instead of off — now behaves as labeled after Microsoft included a servicing fix in preview builds and the October 28, 2025 preview package (KB5067036). Background / Overview For roughly the past few years a recurring complaint surfaced across forums, help desks and social media: when users chose Update and shut down...

Mixed Reality Link for Windows 11 has arrived in a form that finally feels usable for everyday work: Microsoft’s streaming bridge turns a Meta Quest 3 or Quest 3S into a portable, multi‑monitor Windows workstation, and the result is surprisingly competent for free software that requires no special hardware beyond a supported PC and a Quest headset. Background / Overview Microsoft first shipped Mixed Reality Link as a preview that let a Quest headset stream a Windows 11 desktop in late 2024...

Microsoft’s Windows 11 preview has quietly pushed the Xbox Full Screen Experience (FSE) onto MSI’s Claw handheld family, expanding the console‑style, controller‑first shell beyond the Asus devices that shipped with it — but practical limits, buggy preview plumbing, and the growing strength of SteamOS mean the arrival is more milestone than finish line. Background / Overview The Full Screen Experience is not a new operating system — it’s a layered shell inside Windows 11 that places a single...