Today's Top Windows System Articles for 2026-05-04

Articles for the IT Professional. Each day we look at roughly 100 sites for Windows articles and bring them here.

Updated on May 3, 2026 at 7:13:13 PM GMT

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Neowin

May 2, 2026 - neowin.net

Article Keywords: powershell, azure, entra, warning, troubleshoot, error, failed, automation, script, ci/cd, pipeline, iac, bicep

Reimagining Azure Governance with Automation & EPAC

🧩 The Challenge: Governance at Scale Managing Azure environments manually introduces: ❌ Policy drift across subscriptions ❌ Inconsistent naming conventions ❌ Delays in compliance enforcement ❌ Human ...

New blog articles in Microsoft Community Hub

May 2, 2026 - techcommunity.microsoft.com

Article Keywords: review::-3, powershell, azure, entra, outage, incident, alert, fix, issue, error, federation, script, pipeline, github actions, terraform

Modernizing Terraform Pipelines on Azure: OIDC Federation for GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps

The secret nobody wants to rotate Most Terraform-on-Azure pipelines we see still authenticate the same way they did three years ago. A long-lived ARM_CLIENT_SECRET sitting in GitHub Actions or Azure D...

New blog articles in Microsoft Community Hub

May 2, 2026 - techcommunity.microsoft.com

Article Keywords: sharepoint, issue, vpn

Solutions for Large Graphic Files

$1 submitted by /u/mgcjr1

Reddit : Sysadmin

May 2, 2026 - reddit.com

Article Keywords: cve::2, security update::2

CVE-2026-7598 libssh2 userauth.c userauth_password integer overflow

Information published.

MSRC Security Update Guide

May 3, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com

CVE-2026-37555

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MSRC Security Update Guide

May 3, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com

CVE-2026-31431 crypto: algif_aead - Revert to operating out-of-place

Information published.

MSRC Security Update Guide

May 3, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com

Article Keywords: cve::2, security update::2, warning, fix

CVE-2026-43058 media: vidtv: fix pass-by-value structs causing MSAN warnings

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MSRC Security Update Guide

May 3, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com

CVE-2026-6845 Binutils: binutils: denial of service via crafted elf file

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MSRC Security Update Guide

May 3, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com

CVE-2026-6846 Binutils: binutils: arbitrary code execution via malformed xcoff object file processing

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MSRC Security Update Guide

May 3, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com

CVE-2025-8224 GNU Binutils BFD Library elf.c bfd_elf_get_str_section null pointer dereference

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MSRC Security Update Guide

May 3, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com

CVE-2025-11083 GNU Binutils Linker elfcode.h elf_swap_shdr heap-based overflow

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MSRC Security Update Guide

May 3, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com

CVE-2026-30656

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MSRC Security Update Guide

May 3, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com

CVE-2026-6842 Nano: nano: local attacker can inject malicious .desktop launcher due to insecure directory permissions

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MSRC Security Update Guide

May 3, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com

Article Keywords: cve::2, vulnerability::2, security update::2

CVE-2026-6843 Nano: nano: format string vulnerability leads to denial of service

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MSRC Security Update Guide

May 3, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com

CVE-2017-20230 Storable versions before 3.05 for Perl has a stack overflow

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MSRC Security Update Guide

May 3, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com

CVE-2025-9403 jqlang jq JSON jq_test.c run_jq_tests assertion

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MSRC Security Update Guide

May 3, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com

CVE-2026-34757 LIBPNG has a yse-after-free in png_set_PLTE, png_set_tRNS and png_set_hIST leading to corrupted chunk data and potential heap information disclosure

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MSRC Security Update Guide

May 3, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com

CVE-2026-32148 Lockfile checksums not verified in Hex allows dependency integrity bypass

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MSRC Security Update Guide

May 3, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com

Article Keywords: powershell, azure, entra, critical, issue, automation, script, ci/cd, pipeline

Automating Azure Naming Standards using API and DevOps Pipelines

Introduction In large Azure environments, one of the most overlooked yet critical governance challenges is resource naming consistency. While organizations define naming standards, enforcing them at s...

New blog articles in Microsoft Community Hub

May 3, 2026 - techcommunity.microsoft.com

Microsoft fixing strange Outlook bug where documents open blank or "corrupt" themselves

Microsoft is fixing a strange Outlook bug where Office documents open blank, fail to load properly due to corruption, or sometimes do not open at all. It has shared workarounds. Read more...

Neowin

May 3, 2026 - neowin.net

Disneyland Deploys Facial Recognition at Select Entrance Lanes to Prevent Pass Fraud

Disneyland has introduced select entrance lanes at its California theme park that use facial recognition technology. Thank you for being a Ghacks reader. The post Disneyland Deploys Facial Recognition...

gHacks

May 3, 2026 - ghacks.net

Solved How to adjust time for noticiations being displayed on screen?

When Windows is loading after login, a notification of a missing program default flashes onto the screen for 1 second. This is not long enough for me to be able to read which one it is talking about. ...

Windows 10 Help Forums

May 3, 2026 - tenforums.com

Article Keywords: rsat, entra, critical, sso

How the race for critical minerals is creating ‘sacrifice zones,’ impacting the world’s poorest people

There is a troubling contradiction at the heart of the global transition to a cleaner, greener, tech-driven future: Modern technologies—everything from AI to wind turbines, as well as cellphones, elec...

Fast Company - technology

May 3, 2026 - fastcompany.com

Microsoft Defender flagging Digicert hash as Cerdigent malware.

$1 submitted by /u/Never_Get_It_Right

Reddit : Sysadmin

May 3, 2026 - reddit.com

Google Pixel 10A vs. Samsung Galaxy A57: Which Midranger Should You Buy?

One is eerily similar to its predecessor, while the other is $50 more expensive than before.

CNET

May 3, 2026 - cnet.com

Article Keywords: review::-3, entra, microsoft 365, critical, fix, error, script, pipeline

How MS Discovery Is Empowering Scientists to Do More

Research and development has traditionally been a slow, sequential, and largely manual endeavour. Scientists formulate hypotheses, design experiments, run computations in constrained environments, and...

New blog articles in Microsoft Community Hub

May 3, 2026 - techcommunity.microsoft.com

Article Keywords: gaming::-3, comparison::-3, powershell, wmi, critical, fix, issue, bug, known issue, workaround, vpn, firewall, script

Norton 360 NortonUI.exe Focus-Steal Bug - Diagnostic Analysis, Confirmed Root Cause

$1 submitted by /u/LiteBitRed

Reddit : Sysadmin

May 3, 2026 - reddit.com

Article Keywords: review::-3, vs ::-3, registry, powershell, azure, entra, critical, alert, fix, issue, bug, troubleshoot, error, failed, latency, firewall, sso, script, pipeline, github actions, bicep

Running GitHub Actions Runners on Azure Container Apps with KEDA Autoscaling

GitHub-hosted runners work well for most scenarios. But as workloads grow, teams often need: Better cost optimization — pay only when jobs run More control over execution environments and installed t...

New blog articles in Microsoft Community Hub

May 3, 2026 - techcommunity.microsoft.com

Microsoft Defender wrongly flags DigiCert certs as Trojan:Win32/Cerdigent.A!dha

Microsoft Defender is detecting legitimate DigiCert root certificates as Trojan:Win32/Cerdigent.A!dha, resulting in widespread false-positive alerts, and in some cases, removing certificates from Wind...