Today's Top Windows System Articles for 2026-05-18
Articles for the IT Professional. Each day we look at roughly 100 sites for Windows articles and bring them here.
AI-generated code is 'pain waiting to happen'
The boom is piling up technical debt, warns Lightrun's Moshe Sambol
www.theregister.com - Articles
May 16, 2026 - theregister.com
Kerberos on Linux when users UPN is name@domain.com and not sAMAccountName@REALM.LOCAL
$1 submitted by /u/ryanppax1
Reddit : Sysadmin
May 16, 2026 - reddit.com
JDownloader site got compromised May 6-7, served Python RAT as "Alternative Installer" links
$1 submitted by /u/AsterPrivacy
Reddit : Sysadmin
May 16, 2026 - reddit.com
Microsoft admits Windows 11 drivers were quietly killing your battery and performance without crashing, closes the loophole
Microsoft's new Driver Quality Initiative is finally fixing the problem of Windows laptops overheating or draining its battery while asleep in your bag. Going forward, Windows 11 drivers will be judge...
Windows Latest
May 16, 2026 - windowslatest.com
Excel screen turned black where file should be
Excel screen turned black where file should be. I had minimized the screen for the evening (friday) and this morning the file was listed at the top but there was no content. It was not hidden either V...
Windows 10 Help Forums
May 16, 2026 - tenforums.com
Help with Service Desk Team Leader interview prep - what questions should I expect?
$1 submitted by /u/AvailableNectarine73
Reddit : Sysadmin
May 16, 2026 - reddit.com
After Stumbling From CVE to CVE Will Linux get a Kill Switch?
For the few people who have spent the past weeks living under a security rock, the Linux kernel has found itself the subject of multiple severe bugs in the form …read more
Blog – Hackaday
May 16, 2026 - hackaday.com
I'm finishing the UEFI Certificate update - sharing my experience
$1 submitted by /u/PrettyFlyForITguy
Reddit : Sysadmin
May 17, 2026 - reddit.com
CVE-2026-46483 Vim: Command injection in tar#Vimuntar via missing shellescape {special} flag
Information published.
MSRC Security Update Guide
May 17, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-44283 etcd: Read access via PrevKv in etcd transactions may bypass RBAC authorization checks
Information published.
MSRC Security Update Guide
May 17, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-7210 The expat and elementtree parsers use insufficient entropy for XML hash-flooding protection
Information published.
MSRC Security Update Guide
May 17, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-8368 LWP::UserAgent versions before 6.83 for Perl leak Authorization and Proxy-Authorization headers on cross-origin redirects
Information published.
MSRC Security Update Guide
May 17, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-8328 FTP PASV SSRF, ftpcp() does not use actual peer address, trusts server-supplied PASV host address
Information published.
MSRC Security Update Guide
May 17, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
Googlebook Announcement & Canvas Breach Update
$1 submitted by /u/K12TechTalkPodcast
Reddit : K-12 Systems Administrators
May 17, 2026 - reddit.com
Your Browser Probably Lies to the Big Sites (Blame Chrome)
When you visit certain large sites in Firefox or Safari, the browser may detect your visit and change its behavior. It could be as simple as lying about its identity, …read more
Blog – Hackaday
May 17, 2026 - hackaday.com
What is session level DLP and is it actually useful for GenAI data leaks?
$1 submitted by /u/southway_
Reddit : Sysadmin
May 17, 2026 - reddit.com
How to fall in love with humanity again
A lot of humans are feeling very down on humanity these days. Maybe you’ve met them. Or maybe you’re one of them. I’m talking about those who look around and say: Humans are destroying the planet ...
Technology | Vox
May 17, 2026 - vox.com
Cyber Essentials v3.3 / Danzell (UK) and separate admin account requirement
$1 submitted by /u/tech_london
Reddit : Sysadmin
May 17, 2026 - reddit.com
Why Ideogram stands out in the AI image boom
This article is republished with permission from Wonder Tools, a newsletter that helps you discover the most useful sites and apps. I rely on Ideogram, an AI image generator, to help me create poste...
Fast Company - technology
May 17, 2026 - fastcompany.com
Tycoon2FA hijacks Microsoft 365 accounts via device-code phishing
The Tycoon2FA phishing kit now supports device-code phishing attacks and abuses Trustifi click-tracking URLs to hijack Microsoft 365 accounts. [...]
BleepingComputer
May 17, 2026 - bleepingcomputer.com
‘The Comeback’ creator Michael Patrick King warns AI may be creativity’s extinction event
Michael Patrick King has spent decades writing about people navigating worlds where everything feels transactional. With the colossally successful Sex and the City, which spawned multiple films and th...
Fast Company - technology
May 17, 2026 - fastcompany.com
Classic 7 is Windows 10 LTSC cosplaying as Windows 7
Uncanny rebuild resurrects the 2009 desktop, complete with support, updates, and licensing questions
www.theregister.com - Articles
May 17, 2026 - theregister.com
Security researcher says Microsoft built a Bitlocker backdoor, releases exploit
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Hacker News
May 17, 2026 - techspot.com
Overwhelmed - Macrium Reflect
Windows 11 Forum
May 17, 2026 - elevenforum.com
spent way too much time fixing an oversized EBS volume because of one bad statefulset change
$1 submitted by /u/logicclyx
Reddit : Sysadmin
May 17, 2026 - reddit.com
Apple Watch Series 12 probably won't get a major update
A new report claims that Apple intends to make few changes to the current Apple Watch Series 11, beyond a new Watch face.Apple WatchesPrevious reports have said that the Apple Watch Series 12 may get ...
AppleInsider News
May 17, 2026 - appleinsider.com
Notifications stopped working, getting errors
Windows 11 Forum
May 17, 2026 - elevenforum.com
Oops. Tripped over myself upgrading VMs without upgrading tpm
$1 submitted by /u/sccmjd
Reddit : Sysadmin
May 17, 2026 - reddit.com
Apply Known Issue Rollback (KIR) in Windows 11
Windows 11 Forum
May 17, 2026 - elevenforum.com
Powershell Question
Windows 11 Forum
May 17, 2026 - elevenforum.com
CGA As You Have Never Seen It Before
An old-style graphics system as found on many 8-bit computers and on early PC graphics cards drew its characters by retrieving their bitmaps from a ROM. With a little sideways …read more
Blog – Hackaday
May 17, 2026 - hackaday.com
Windows 11 update failed. Boot up loop
Windows 11 Forum
May 17, 2026 - elevenforum.com
Checking For Dell Driver Updates.
Windows 11 Forum
May 17, 2026 - elevenforum.com
Random local web server access failure — ping works but HTTP fails for some users only
$1 submitted by /u/Remote-Damage3544
Reddit : Sysadmin
May 17, 2026 - reddit.com
Microsoft confirms the new Secure Boot folder in Windows 11 isn’t a bug, you don’t need to delete it
New “SecureBoot” folder created by Windows 11 KB5089549 is expected behavior for Secure Boot certificates update and not a known issue. The post Microsoft confirms the new Secure Boot folder in Window...
Windows Latest
May 17, 2026 - windowslatest.com
Architectural patterns for graph-enhanced RAG: Moving beyond vector search in production
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has become the de facto standard for grounding large language models (LLMs) in private data. The standard architecture — chunking documents, embedding them into a ...
VentureBeat
May 17, 2026 - venturebeat.com
Check, Enable or Disable TRIM Support for SSD Drives in Windows 11
Windows 11 Forum
May 17, 2026 - elevenforum.com
garlin's PowerShell scripts for updating Secure Boot CA 2023
Windows 11 Forum
May 17, 2026 - elevenforum.com
The Boring Stuff is Dangerous Now
AI agents capable of discovering and exploiting obscure vulnerabilities are emerging alongside developers producing vast amounts of potentially flawed AI-generated code, forcing defenders to adapt acc...