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Microsoft has quietly begun the wider rollout of Windows 11, version 25H2 — the 2025 Update — and the move is more than a routine version bump: it resets support clocks for older consumer releases, removes legacy components, and lays groundwork for a controlled, AI-first evolution of the desktop...

Chromium’s V8 type‑confusion flaw tracked as CVE‑2025‑13223 is listed in Microsoft’s Security Update Guide because Microsoft Edge (the Chromium‑based browser) consumes Chromium’s V8 engine — the Security Update Guide entry is the downstream signal that tells Edge customers whether Microsoft has...

Microsoft has quietly issued an out‑of‑band (emergency) Windows update to fix a string of problems that left some Windows 10 PCs unable to enroll in Extended Security Updates (ESU) and — in at least one case — falsely warned users that their installation had already “reached the end of support.”...

Microsoft has quietly given millions of Windows 10 PCs a one‑year lifeline: eligible consumer devices can still receive free, security‑only updates through October 13, 2026 — but you must enroll, meet precise requirements, and accept a few trade‑offs to claim them. Background / Overview...

This week’s Microsoft story cycle read like a case study in modern tech PR: a single phrase from a Windows executive sparked a broad, public backlash; a short Copilot ad turned into an accessibility and messaging fiasco; and beneath the noise Microsoft quietly shipped a stack of important fixes...

Microsoft users should update now: a critical heap‑overflow in the Microsoft Graphics Component (GDI+) and a high‑risk Chromium/V8 flaw in Microsoft Edge are part of November’s emergency Patch Tuesday and expose both desktop machines and document‑processing servers to remote code execution...

A recently assigned vulnerability, CVE-2025-13042, is a high-severity flaw in Chromium’s V8 JavaScript engine described as an “inappropriate implementation” that can lead to heap corruption when a user loads specially crafted HTML; it was fixed upstream in the Chrome 142 branch, and Microsoft...

Microsoft’s November Patch Tuesday delivered a compact but urgent security package: 63 vulnerabilities were fixed across Windows and Microsoft products, including an actively exploited Windows kernel zero‑day (CVE‑2025‑62215) and a critical GDI+ remote code execution bug (CVE‑2025‑60724), plus...

Microsoft has issued a narrowly targeted emergency update — KB5071959 — to repair a broken Windows 10 ESU enrollment path that was preventing eligible consumer PCs from signing up for Extended Security Updates via the in‑OS enrollment wizard, restoring the ability for those systems to receive...

Microsoft has issued an out‑of‑band Windows 10 update, KB5071959, to repair a bug that was preventing eligible consumer PCs from enrolling in the Extended Security Updates (ESU) program — a timely fix that restores the update path for machines that otherwise could not receive November’s critical...

Microsoft has released KB5068781 — the first cumulative security rollup for Windows 10 distributed through the Extended Security Updates (ESU) program — advancing 22H2 systems to Build 19045.6575 and delivering a targeted set of security and servicing fixes for ESU‑enrolled devices. This update...

Microsoft has shipped the November 2025 security rollup and an urgent out‑of‑band (OOB) patch that fixes a bug which prevented some Windows 10 PCs from enrolling in the consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) program — a release that also closes an actively exploited Windows kernel zero‑day and...

Microsoft has quietly shipped an out‑of‑band (OOB) update — KB5071959 — that repairs a broken enrollment wizard preventing some Windows 10 consumer PCs from joining the Extended Security Updates (ESU) program, restoring the ability for eligible devices to receive post‑end‑of‑support security...

Chromium’s CVE-2025-12726 — labelled “Inappropriate implementation in Views” — appears in Microsoft’s Security Update Guide because Microsoft Edge (Chromium‑based) consumes upstream Chromium code, and the Security Update Guide entry is the downstream, vendor‑specific signal that Edge builds have...

Chromium’s CVE-2025-12727 — described as an “inappropriate implementation in V8” — appears in Microsoft’s Security Update Guide because Microsoft Edge (the Chromium‑based browser) consumes upstream Chromium code; the Security Update Guide entry tells Edge customers whether the Edge release they...

Microsoft has shipped November’s Patch Tuesday for Windows 11: the combined monthly cumulative for the current servicing baselines arrives as KB5068861 for Windows 11 versions 25H2 and 24H2, and Microsoft’s Release Preview channel received the focused preview package KB5067112 for 23H2 —...

Microsoft has published an advisory for CVE‑2025‑60721, a high‑severity elevation‑of‑privilege flaw that targets the new Windows Administrator Protection elevation flow and can let a local, authenticated attacker obtain administrative‑equivalent privileges by abusing a privilege context...

Microsoft’s public advisories list CVE-2025-60713 as a genuine, high‑priority vulnerability in the Windows Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS) that can allow a local, low‑privileged user to elevate to higher privileges through an untrusted pointer dereference in RRAS — administrators must...

Microsoft has published a security update addressing CVE-2025-62452, a heap-based buffer overflow in the Windows Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS) that Microsoft describes as allowing an attacker to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable systems reachable over the network — administrators...

Microsoft’s one‑year lifeline for Windows 10 — the Consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) program — is now rolling out to eligible PCs, and the enrollment process is deliberately simple: open Settings > Update & Security > Windows Update and click “Enroll now,” then choose whether to link your...