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Microsoft's August .NET patch broke printing in Windows apps. Here's what to do.
A security fix shipped this month is causing crashes when Windows Presentation Foundation apps try to print or export to PDF using common fonts like Calibri.

Microsoft brings back a Classic Outlook look for people stuck on the new app
A new toggle inside Outlook on the web and the New Outlook for Windows lets users switch to a theme that mimics the old client, easing a migration many staff have resisted.

Microsoft Pushes 22 Security Fixes, Six Rated Maximum Severity
A batch of patches covers Microsoft's cloud and identity products, with six flaws scoring a perfect 10 out of 10 on the severity scale. Most fixes apply automatically, but one Defender vulnerability is still waiting for a patch.

Microsoft Confirms Critical Entra ID Flaw Was Exploited, Says No Customer Action Needed
Redmond patched a perfect-10 remote code execution bug in its cloud identity service and says the fix was applied on its side.

Microsoft probes Windows 11 August update after gamers report crashes in ARC Raiders and The Finals
The KB5121003 patch is under investigation after players on 24H2 and 25H2 reported freezes, access-violation errors and sudden reboots.

Four Critical Security Flaws Exploited in Apple, Microsoft, and VMware Products
CISA warns of active exploitation of severe vulnerabilities in popular software, affecting millions globally.

Windows Defender Crashed Mid-Scan After Buggy Update, Microsoft Ships Fix
A faulty signature update knocked out Microsoft's built-in antivirus on Windows 10 and 11 machines this week, leaving scans failing and some users reinstalling their operating system before a patch arrived.

CISA Orders Urgent Fixes for Four Actively Exploited Flaws in Windows, VMware, and macOS
Four security holes, all being actively abused by real attackers right now, need patches immediately. Two hit Microsoft, one VMware, one Apple.

Microsoft trims Windows 11 right-click menu and retires a tool long abused by hackers
Faster File Explorer and a cleaner context menu land in Insider builds, while the old WMIC command tool, a favourite of attackers, gets pulled from Windows 11.

Microsoft pulls a 30-year-old Windows tool that hackers loved
WMIC, a command-line utility abused by ransomware crews to wipe backups and disable antivirus, is gone from fresh installs of Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2.

GitHub hit by widespread outage, breaking builds and logins for hours
The world's biggest code-sharing site started throwing errors on Monday morning, and developers everywhere felt it.

Certighost: The Windows Certificate Flaw That Hands Attackers the Keys to the Kingdom
A newly disclosed bug, CVE-2026-54121, lets any ordinary staff account quietly promote itself to top-level control of a Windows network by abusing the company's certificate server.

Windows Server 2022 has one year left of mainstream support
Microsoft is telling administrators to plan the jump to Windows Server 2025 before the October 2026 cutoff, when the older release moves to extended support only.

$58 Certificate, Four Flaws: Researchers Show How SCCM Can Hand Attackers the Keys to an Entire Company
A security research team chained together four weaknesses in Microsoft's enterprise device-management software to reach full system control, starting with nothing more than a standard company login.

AI Is Spitting Out Working Exploits for $3.61. Microsoft Says the Old Playbook Is Dead.
A senior Microsoft security chief told Black Hat USA that AI tools have made finding and weaponising software flaws so cheap and fast that the entire industry's approach to defence needs to change, starting now.