Microsoft has acknowledged a critical reliability problem introduced by its August 12, 2025 Windows security rollup that disabled core recovery features on multiple client builds of Windows 10 and Windows 11, and issued an out‑of‑band (OOB) cumulative update — KB5066189 — to resolve failed Reset...
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Microsoft’s August Windows 11 patch cycle has produced two very different but equally alarming headlines this week: an emergency mitigation for enterprise update delivery failures, and community reports that the same cumulative update may be triggering storage devices to become unreadable or...
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