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Microsoft’s Security Response Center has added CVE‑2025‑60716 to its November Patch Tuesday advisories: a use‑after‑free flaw in the DirectX Graphics Kernel that allows an authenticated local attacker to elevate privileges to SYSTEM if they win a race condition, and Microsoft rates the issue as...

Microsoft’s deadline drama for Windows 10 users has just entered a new, urgent phase: the free consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) enrollment and the first post‑retirement Patch Tuesday together create a narrow window where machines that haven’t moved to Windows 11 or enrolled in ESU could...

Microsoft has quietly updated Windows 11’s taskbar battery indicator so it finally tells you useful information at a glance: the icon is now color-aware and you can choose to show an exact battery percentage in the system tray. This isn’t a flashy new AI feature or a hardware tweak — it’s a...

Microsoft’s November Patch Tuesday for Windows 11 arrives as more than a security roll-up — it’s a staged feature drop that folds several visible UI overhauls and new AI-backed experiences into the servicing stack for both Windows 11 version 24H2 and 25H2, with many capabilities gated behind...

Windows 11’s update cycle has recently felt less like a steady march of security and feature improvements and more like a sequence of stumbles: high‑impact regressions, recovery environments rendered unusable, and encryption systems asking ordinary users for recovery keys they never saved. The...

The October 2025 cumulative update for Windows 11 (KB5066835) shipped critical security patches — but it also introduced multiple regressions that broke localhost HTTP/2 connections for developers, disabled USB input inside the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE), interfered with File...

Microsoft’s October 28, 2025 preview cumulative—KB5067036 (OS Builds 26200.7019 for 25H2 and 26100.7019 for 24H2)—has started landing for Windows 11 devices and brings a dense mix of visible shell changes, on‑device and cloud‑assisted AI actions, accessibility improvements, and a broad set of...

Microsoft’s October Patch Tuesday left a small but vocal swath of Windows administrators staring at a blunt, alarming notice in Settings: “Your version of Windows has reached the end of support,” even on machines that remained legitimately entitled to security updates — including systems in the...

For more than a decade, a tiny but persistent mismatch between label and behavior in Windows finally has a clear fix: the “Update and shutdown” command will now, in the scenarios Microsoft addressed, actually power the PC off instead of leaving it running or returning to the desktop after...

Microsoft has quietly fixed one of the little Windows annoyances that quietly cost users battery life, trust, and occasional midnight trips back to the PC: the long‑running “Update and shut down” workflow that sometimes restarted machines instead of powering them off has been corrected in...

Windows 11 users on recent preview builds are reporting a strange and persistent regression: closing Task Manager with the window “X” sometimes does not terminate taskmgr.exe, and each reopen can spawn another live Task Manager process — producing dozens of background taskmgr.exe instances that...

Microsoft’s quiet but sweeping change to File Explorer — disabling the Preview pane for files flagged as coming from the Internet — is a security-first response to a proven NTLM credential‑theft vector that landed in the October 2025 Patch Tuesday updates and immediately rippled through...

Microsoft has acknowledged a serious regression in its October 14, 2025 cumulative update for Windows 11 (KB5066835) and is rolling an emergency fix after the patch broke two very different but critical areas of the platform: local HTTP/2 (localhost) connections used by developers and many...

Microsoft’s October Patch Tuesday rollout cratered into an operational crisis for many Windows 11 users and administrators after the October 14 cumulative update (KB5066835) introduced multiple high‑impact regressions — most notably rendering USB keyboards and mice useless inside the Windows...

Microsoft’s October cumulative update for Windows 11, KB5066835, landed as a record‑sized Patch Tuesday release intended to close roughly 175 security holes — including multiple zero‑day flaws — but within hours the patch sparked a wave of regressions that broke critical developer workflows...

A Windows 11 security update released in mid‑October 2025 (KB5066835, OS build 26100.6899) has introduced a serious regression: USB keyboards and mice can become completely unresponsive inside the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE), leaving users unable to navigate recovery menus when they...

Lian Li owners reporting a disappearing L‑Connect 3 UI after Patch Tuesday’s October cumulative (KB5066835) now have a practical — if temporary — workaround: pause Windows Update, remove KB5066835, and reboot. Background / Overview Microsoft shipped the October 14, 2025 cumulative update for...

Microsoft shipped a quiet — but consequential — set of Windows Recovery updates on Patch Tuesday that close out Windows 10’s maintenance window while also exposing a fresh reliability problem on Windows 11: final WinRE dynamic updates for Windows 10 (KB5068164 and the Safe OS packages such as...

Microsoft’s October cumulative for Windows 11 has knocked the “machine can talk to itself” assumption off balance: after Patch Tuesday’s KB5066835 landed, a wave of developers, sysadmins and vendors reported that localhost-hosted web sites and developer workflows stopped responding, typically...

Windows 10’s official support end is a hard deadline — but for organizations wrestling with legacy, mission‑critical applications, the moment is not a verdict of doom; it’s a call to action with practical, fast, and defensible options to keep apps running securely while you plan longer‑term...