Today's Top Windows System Articles for 2026-09-20

Techie fixed Wi-Fi dead zone with a drill

When wires and wireless mix, the combination can be electric

www.theregister.com - Articles

Sep 18, 2026 - theregister.com

Critical Orkes Conductor Vulnerability Exploited in Attacks

CVE-2026-58138 is an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability that attackers can exploit via inline workflow definitions. The post Critical Orkes Conductor Vulnerability Exploited in Attack...

SecurityWeek

Sep 18, 2026 - securityweek.com

Microsoft shares a fix for Excel copy-paste not working bug

Microsoft has offered a fix for Excel's failing copy-paste. However, this is only a partial fix for now. Thankfully, the company has a workaround too. Read more...

Neowin

Sep 18, 2026 - neowin.net

Key Themes From Ireland’s Ecommerce Sector, AI, Innovation and Customer Experience

Irish ecommerce businesses are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence, technology and international expansion to compete for customers, while simplifying the buying experience is becoming a g...

Irish Tech News

Sep 18, 2026 - irishtechnews.ie

Employers aren’t giving up on computer science grads. Here’s what they want instead

Not long ago, a computer science degree was widely seen as a golden ticket to a lucrative career. Over the past year, a different narrative has taken hold: In the age of artificial intelligence, that ...

Fast Company - technology

Sep 18, 2026 - fastcompany.com

Microsoft Patches 18 Vulnerabilities in AI, Cloud Products

Microsoft fixed vulnerabilities across Azure and AI-branded products, with privilege escalation flaws accounting for the majority. The post Microsoft Patches 18 Vulnerabilities in AI, Cloud Products a...

SecurityWeek

Sep 18, 2026 - securityweek.com

23 Million User Records Compromised in Gyazo Data Breach 

Gyazo maker Helpfeel said the attacker exploited a vulnerability in its image upload server to gain unauthorized access. The post 23 Million User Records Compromised in Gyazo Data Breach  appeared fir...

SecurityWeek

Sep 18, 2026 - securityweek.com

Gyazo server flaw exploited to steal 23.6 million user records

The Gyazo image-sharing platform has confirmed it suffered a data breach after hackers exploited a server vulnerability that allowed them to steal 23.6 million user records. [...]

BleepingComputer

Sep 18, 2026 - bleepingcomputer.com

AI-Built Exploit and Sign-In Flaw Opened Path to Internal OpenAI Code

Hacktron researchers earned a bug bounty after demonstrating access to OpenAI employee accounts.  The post AI-Built Exploit and Sign-In Flaw Opened Path to Internal OpenAI Code appeared first on Secur...

SecurityWeek

Sep 18, 2026 - securityweek.com

Europe’s e-waste future takes centre stage in Dublin

European policymakers and industry leaders are gathered in Dublin yesterday for a major two-day conference examining how electrical and electronic waste can play a bigger role in Europe’s circular eco...

Irish Tech News

Sep 18, 2026 - irishtechnews.ie

Claude, Anthropic’s AI model, is helping to develop the next version of itself

Anthropic’s Claude is helping the company develop the next, more intelligent version of the model, the artificial intelligence lab said in an announcement Thursday.Claude is leading 26% of Anthropic’s...

Fast Company - technology

Sep 18, 2026 - fastcompany.com

Microsoft Defender update fixes false antivirus alerts in Windows 10, 11, Server

The flaw caused Defender to claim protection was disabled despite functioning normally, potentially generating widespread notification fatigue among administrators managing enterprise fleets. Read mor...

Neowin

Sep 18, 2026 - neowin.net

Windows 11 Security Update Triggers Active Directory Authentication Problems

A recent Windows security update is creating unexpected authentication problems for some organizations that use on-premises Active Directory. After installing the September 2026 security update KB5124...

Petri IT Knowledgebase

Sep 18, 2026 - petri.com

This Week in AI: Capability, Capital, and Consequences

OpenAI expanded into software control, scientific reasoning, and financial services this week, and investors committed billions more to AI companies across the stack, while AI researchers went public ...

Radar

Sep 18, 2026 - oreilly.com

Researchers used Claude to hack OpenAI

Researchers used Claude to reach an OpenAI employee account and sensitive GitHub data.

Ars Technica - All content

Sep 18, 2026 - arstechnica.com

Service Account vs User Account: Default to a Managed Identity for Workloads

Service accounts rarely attract much attention until a password change, server migration, or security issue breaks a workload. That’s why it’s worth choosing the right identity from the get-go because...

Petri IT Knowledgebase

Sep 18, 2026 - petri.com

Inside Temporal’s journey to a $12.55B valuation, and its bet on building a backbone for AI agents

One of the hottest infrastructure companies in AI today traces its roots to work its founders were doing before the cloud was even a thing. Fresh off a big funding round, Temporal co-founders Samar Ab...

GeekWire

Sep 18, 2026 - geekwire.com

In Other News: Ransomware Developer Sentenced, Plugin4Shell AI Attack, Critical SAP Flaw

Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Mandiant's 2026 AI risk report, PhantomRaven malware used by bug bounty hunter, WordPress plugin bug exploited. The post In Other News: Rans...

SecurityWeek

Sep 18, 2026 - securityweek.com

Here are all of Apple’s official accessories for iPhone 18 Pro, Apple Watch Series 12, more

Today is Apple launch day for a bunch of new Apple products: iPhone 18 Pro, iPhone 18 Pro Max, Apple Watch Series 12, Apple Watch Ultra 4, and AirPods 5. Below, we’ve rounded up all of the official...

9to5Mac

Sep 18, 2026 - 9to5mac.com

Dr Ann Kelleher honoured with prestigious Kay McNulty Award as 2026 Diversity & Inclusion in Tech winners announced

The winners of the 2026 Diversity & Inclusion in Tech Awards (DITAs) was unveiled last night at a ceremony at Dublin’s Gibson Hotel, bringing together more than 300 leaders and representatives from ac...

Irish Tech News

Sep 18, 2026 - irishtechnews.ie

With Siri Recap, Apple threw a punch at OpenAI no one saw coming

John Ternus’ Apple threw a curveball at OpenAI with Siri Recap on Apple Watch, accelerating a conversation about privacy and data protection in an AI-augmented digital era. It’s a move that may yet co...

Computerworld

Sep 18, 2026 - computerworld.com

GhostCode attackers abuse device codes to take over Microsoft 365 accounts

Microsoft 365 users are being tricked into handing over access to their accounts by a new phishing kit, GhostCode, that exploits a weakness in a legitimate device authorization flow. Researchers in eS...

Computerworld

Sep 18, 2026 - computerworld.com

Microsoft fixes the fix that broke Excel paste – partly

Hotfix covers only Excel 2016 and may still come unstuck around conditional formatting

www.theregister.com - Articles

Sep 18, 2026 - theregister.com

Why every AI launch now makes the backlash worse

The past few weeks have seen a host of AI model and tool releases, and—although it might sound cliché at this point—it’s fair to say the abilities of AI today make what was available even six months a...

Fast Company - technology

Sep 18, 2026 - fastcompany.com

A Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Know-How: From First Concept to the Last Unit Sold

Product Lifecycle Management was traditionally akin to a filing system. But with the inception of AI, that role has changed drastically. Every product in the market undergoes three phases: a birth, a ...

Ciente

Sep 18, 2026 - ciente.io

Software Factories, Light and Dark

The following article originally appeared on Addy Osmani’s blog and is being republished here with the author’s permission. A software factory harnesses loops at scale. You can run the loop with human...

Radar

Sep 18, 2026 - oreilly.com

I’ve now completely changed my mind about Apple Glasses

The first smart glasses were Google Glass, launched way back in 2014. The product failed for a number of reasons, but the biggest of these was privacy concerns around video recording capabilities, lea...

9to5Mac

Sep 18, 2026 - 9to5mac.com

Mike Berners-Lee to keynote Techies Go Green conference in Dublin

Techies Go Green, the business sustainability network, has announced that Mike Berners-Lee will deliver the keynote address at its Smarter Energy Challenge conference in Dublin on 14th October. He wil...

Irish Tech News

Sep 18, 2026 - irishtechnews.ie

Why the Future Might Be Deterministic AI and the Need For More Rules, Not Fewer

Deterministic AI combines AI interpretation with rules-based execution. How does it benefit businesses? Let’s start from the ground up.  AI has been offered the front seat. It writes the email. Reads ...

Ciente

Sep 18, 2026 - ciente.io

KDE turns 30 and someone's brought an AI-native desktop proposal

Akademy talk imagines Plasma assembling itself around a personal model of each user

www.theregister.com - Articles

Sep 18, 2026 - theregister.com

Anthropic Relaunches Projects in Claude Code

Anthropic just overhauled Projects in Claude Code, and it signals a massive shift in how AI builds software. Now you can spin up multiple AI agents that work on different parts of a single product- si...

Ciente

Sep 18, 2026 - ciente.io

Mobility Print losing JSON Policy

$1 submitted by /u/thedevarious

Reddit : K-12 Systems Administrators

Sep 18, 2026 - reddit.com

10 Integrations for Your Multichannel Advertising Strategy

Multichannel advertising is only as strong as the systems behind it. Explore 10 integrations that connect intent, CRM, ecommerce, social, search, and attribution data. Multichannel advertising is ever...

Ciente

Sep 18, 2026 - ciente.io

Microsoft fixes Excel's copy-paste bug, but only for a small group of people

Microsoft issued a patch for Excel’s broken copy-paste feature, but the fix only applies to Excel 2016.

Latest from Windows Central

Sep 18, 2026 - windowscentral.com

Your questions about the AI apocalypse, answered

Protesters during a "Stop the AI Race" demonstration calling for a slowdown in the development of advanced artificial intelligence systems outside City Hall in San Francisco, California, on September ...

Technology | Vox

Sep 18, 2026 - vox.com

Twin tech founders who left Seattle for Alaska bet on an AI agent named ‘Walter’ to cover local news

Several years after leaving Seattle’s startup scene to build a “tech outpost” in the Alaskan wilderness, serial entrepreneurs and twin brothers Lee and Lucas Brown, founders of Tune, have set their si...

GeekWire

Sep 18, 2026 - geekwire.com

Microsoft mops up after Patch Tuesday broke logins, audio, Excel

Microsoft fixed hundreds of security flaws in its September Patch Tuesday software updates — but it also introduced some annoying bugs. Now it has fixed some of them with a series of out-of-band updat...

Computerworld

Sep 18, 2026 - computerworld.com

HomeKit Weekly: Homey’s new Device Updates feature shows what Matter was supposed to be all along

Firmware updates have been the weakest link for a decade with smart homes. Every sensor, light bulb, and smart lock in your house runs software that should be updated regularly. This is on top of even...

9to5Mac

Sep 18, 2026 - 9to5mac.com

North Korea's fake job interviews infected 30,000 devices

WaterPlum recruiters used bogus coding tests to backdoor jobseekers and raid more than 7,000 crypto wallets

www.theregister.com - Articles

Sep 18, 2026 - theregister.com

New Android malware can deploy AI to automate device control — and it can even bring itself back from the dead

AI can now serve as the eyes and the hands of a piece of malware and even reinstall components if they're removed.

Latest from TechRadar

Sep 18, 2026 - techradar.com

Researchers used Claude to hack OpenAI employees' ChatGPT accounts

Agentic exploits for the win (again)

www.theregister.com - Articles

Sep 18, 2026 - theregister.com

Cisco Zero-Day Highlights API Endpoint Authentication Issues

The authentication bypass flaw CVE-2026-76460 impacts Cisco's Identity Services Engine (ISE) and received a maximum 10 out of 10 CVSS score.

darkreading

Sep 18, 2026 - darkreading.com

Tech Moves: Ascend promotes Nate Bek; Microsoft Word ‘Agent Mode’ architect exits; TAF names new exec

Ascend promoted Nate Bek to principal, and the technical lead for "Agent Mode" in Microsoft Word left to start his own AI company. Also in this week's roundup: new leaders at Technology Access Foundat...

GeekWire

Sep 18, 2026 - geekwire.com

Run and install AI models on your Windows PC with Microsoft Foundry Local

Microsoft Foundry Local lets you run large language models (LLMs, text-generating AI models) and speech models directly on a Windows PC without sending prompts to the cloud. The runtime handles model ...

4sysops

Sep 18, 2026 - 4sysops.com

New features in Microsoft Desired State Configuration v3.3.0

Microsoft has released Desired State Configuration (DSC) v3.3.0, the latest version of its cross-platform configuration management platform. DSC lets you describe the desired state of a Windows or Lin...

4sysops

Sep 18, 2026 - 4sysops.com

US Army confirms it has 'space control weapons' active in orbit to ensure it 'can operate freely there'

United States confirms weapons are operating in orbit, while withholding their identities, capabilities, deployment dates, numbers, and intended uses.

Latest from TechRadar

Sep 18, 2026 - techradar.com

Aruba WiFi AOS 10.8.1.0 bug

$1 submitted by /u/username____here

Reddit : K-12 Systems Administrators

Sep 18, 2026 - reddit.com

Tiny Dutch startup enlists Samsung as backer as it seeks to dethrone Nvidia AI GPU — but Euclyd won't get its inference chip out till 2028

Samsung joined Euclyd's $231 million funding round as the Dutch startup develops an alternative AI chip architecture for commercial deployment in 2028.

Latest from TechRadar

Sep 18, 2026 - techradar.com

How to Get from AI-Assisted to AI Native

When considering the history of AI, Richard Sutton observed that brute force and compute scale has always trumped human expertise, and when you look for it, you can see this “bitter lesson” play out t...

Radar

Sep 18, 2026 - oreilly.com

Virginia governor wakes up to fact datacenters have become political cancer

Executive order puts the kibosh on NDAs, limits permitting, and calls for stiffer environmental protections

www.theregister.com - Articles

Sep 18, 2026 - theregister.com

Desperate DHS Demanded Info On Beanie Cap Buyers While Trying To Prosecute Journalists

Some day we’ll look back at this and laugh. I mean, I would hope so. The DOJ and DHS are still trying to put people in jail for protesting a church whose pastor was also an ICE officer. Ultimately, th...

Techdirt

Sep 18, 2026 - techdirt.com

Intel Arc driver adds Silent Hill: Townfall and EA FC 27 support

Intel has released the 32.0.101.9030 graphics driver that adds support for EA Sports FC 27 and Silent Hill: Townfall alongside Dragon's Dogma 2 bug fixes. Read more...

Neowin

Sep 18, 2026 - neowin.net

NYT Connections hints and answers for Saturday, September 19 (game #1196)

Looking for NYT Connections answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, plus my commentary on the puzzles.

Latest from TechRadar

Sep 18, 2026 - techradar.com

UAE Cyber Chief Says Country Faced 640,000 Cyberattacks in One Day

The UAE faced 640,000 cyberattacks in one day, its cyber chief says, highlighting risks from unpatched software, ransomware, and deepfakes. The post UAE Cyber Chief Says Country Faced 640,000 Cyberatt...

TechRepublic

Sep 18, 2026 - techrepublic.com

Hackers Are Using Passkey Updates as a New Microsoft Phishing Hook

Microsoft warns attackers are using passkey and MFA update requests to phish employees, hijack sessions, and access Microsoft 365 data. The post Hackers Are Using Passkey Updates as a New Microsoft Ph...

TechRepublic

Sep 18, 2026 - techrepublic.com

On Chip Debug for (Some) MicroPython

If you’ve used MicroPython much, you know that debugging usually amounts to printing a few things out, trying your code out, and then repeating. But [ghi-electronics] wants you to have …read more

Blog – Hackaday

Sep 19, 2026 - hackaday.com

RFK Jr. Assclown Jambaroo: Anti-Vaxxer Bullshit, A New Panel Of Misfits, EMFs, & Chemtrails, Oh My!

Well, as we previously discussed was going to occur, RFK Jr. gave his keynote speech and appearance at the Children’s Health Defense conference of anti-vaxxer conspiracy-mongers, and he was certainly ...

Techdirt

Sep 19, 2026 - techdirt.com

The AI threat keeping scientists up at night

AI will be the death of me. And you. And everyone we know. At least, this is what a growing number of technologists and policymakers fear.  Last week, a lead researcher at Anthropic declared that th...

Technology | Vox

Sep 19, 2026 - vox.com

Microsoft’s research boss reveals why Windows 11 features don’t show up, and his fix half works

Windows 11 has rolled out multiple new features, including a resizable Start menu, a movable taskbar, the ability to remove Bing from Windows Search, and major performance improvements. But the catch ...

Windows Latest

Sep 19, 2026 - windowslatest.com

How to make IKEA and Philips Hue smart lights play nicely together, from simple hub pairing to fun DIY hardware hacks

From simple hub pairing to adventurous DIY hacks, here are four ways to use your Philips Hue and IKEA smart lights together in perfect harmony.

Latest from TechRadar

Sep 19, 2026 - techradar.com

Firefox 156 arrives with a forest of forks in its wake

From Waterfox to LibreWolf and Pale Moon, there's a browser for almost every Mozilla dissenter

www.theregister.com - Articles

Sep 19, 2026 - theregister.com

CISA adds three actively exploited Linux kernel flaws to KEV

CISA has added three Linux kernel vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog after receiving evidence that attackers are using them in the wild. The agency has not disclosed whethe...

4sysops

Sep 19, 2026 - 4sysops.com

Windows 11 26H1 gets Cloud rebuild for unbootable PCs

Windows 11 Insider Experimental 26H1 build 28120.3032 adds Cloud rebuild, allowing administrators to reinstall Windows and device drivers from WinRE even when the installed system will not start. The ...

4sysops

Sep 19, 2026 - 4sysops.com

Public Linux kernel exploits put four local-root flaws on patch lists

Public exploit code for four Linux kernel vulnerabilities now gives local users a path to root on unpatched systems. The flaws—DirtyAH6, TUNderflow, PPPoEject, and DiagSpill—have upstream fixes, but n...

4sysops

Sep 19, 2026 - 4sysops.com

ShinyHunters hacks Clop leak site, threatens to extort ransomware gang

The ShinyHunters extortion gang breached the Clop (aka Cl0p) ransomware operation's data leak site, defacing the Tor site and allegedly stealing server data and the private keys for its onion service....

BleepingComputer

Sep 19, 2026 - bleepingcomputer.com

BragJack attacks hijack AI browser agents through malicious extensions

BragJack, a proof-of-concept attack from Forever Security's Gal Weizman, hijacks the AI assistants in Chrome, Edge, Opera Neon, Perplexity Comet, and Claude in Chrome using one malicious extension. Th...

BleepingComputer

Sep 19, 2026 - bleepingcomputer.com

Someone used Claude to build a potential bioweapon. The real threat is much deeper

Today’s frontier AI models know everything–how to safely thaw a frozen chicken breast, re-shingle your roof, and treat your dog’s ragweed allergies, if my recent chat history is any indication. Appa...

Fast Company - technology

Sep 19, 2026 - fastcompany.com

Forget the AI Slowdown—the Vulnerability Explosion Is Already Happening

AI labs are toying with an industry-wide pact to slow development. Meanwhile, widely available AI chatbots are already helping uncover a tidal wave of security flaws.

WIRED

Sep 19, 2026 - wired.com

Apple @ Work: Enterprise oassword management is still hard, and Dashlane’s new Vault Enforcement aims to fix it

Apple @ Work is exclusively brought to you by Mosyle, the only Apple Unified Platform. Mosyle is the only solution that integrates in a single professional grade platform all the solutions necessary t...

9to5Mac

Sep 19, 2026 - 9to5mac.com

Black Panther 3: release date, confirmed cast, and everything else we know about the Marvel Phase 7 movie so far

Black Panther 3 is one of three films confirmed to be part of MCU Phase 7 — here's what we know about it.

Latest from TechRadar

Sep 19, 2026 - techradar.com

Reacher season 5: everything we know so far about the hit Prime Video show's return

Thankfully, Reacher season 5 was renewed before season 4 was even released on Prime Video — and the book it will be based on is a corker.

Latest from TechRadar

Sep 19, 2026 - techradar.com

‘The fixes are architectural, not bigger pipes’: OpenSSL President on what businesses can expect and how to prepare for a post-quantum internet

I spoke to Tim Hudson, President of OpenSSL Corporation, to learn more about how business can prepare for a post-quantum internet and the logistical problems involved in securing post-quantum encrypti...

Latest from TechRadar

Sep 19, 2026 - techradar.com

Our top iPhone 18 Pro accessories to upgrade your setup [Updated]

We are taking look at some of the iPhone 18 Pro accessories we are picking up for ourselves this year before Friday’s delivery day. If you ask me Apple’s AirTag 2 and a fresh set of AirPods Pro 3 (or ...

9to5Mac

Sep 19, 2026 - 9to5mac.com

Agentic security is the billion-dollar challenge for some clever startup to solve

High time to stop kicking the security can down the road, investor tells The Reg

www.theregister.com - Articles

Sep 19, 2026 - theregister.com

Disk Drives 100% -- done everything I can

I do computer maintenance. I have recently had a series of computers (two of them in-shop right now) where the hard drive is pegged 100% and is not yielding to the usual stuff. These are HDDs, not...

Windows 10 Help Forums

Sep 19, 2026 - tenforums.com

Broken Sword creator chose human artists over AI for all 55,000 new frames of animation in the upcoming 2 remake — 'People are going to seek out human-crafted art'

Co-founder Charles Cecil says humans are better at capturing emotion and character than AI tools.

Latest from TechRadar

Sep 19, 2026 - techradar.com

garlin's PowerShell scripts for updating Secure Boot CA 2023

Windows 11 Forum

Sep 19, 2026 - elevenforum.com

Accessing web pages

Windows 11 Forum

Sep 19, 2026 - elevenforum.com

Windows 11’s Defender kept falsely saying your antivirus was off, and Microsoft just fixed it

On some PCs, Windows 11 has been incorrectly warning that Microsoft Defender is turned off, even when it isn't, for almost two months. The post Windows 11’s Defender kept falsely saying your antivirus...

Windows Latest

Sep 19, 2026 - windowslatest.com

Samsung SSD 990 Pro 2TB won't update Firmware in Samsung Magician software

Windows 11 Forum

Sep 19, 2026 - elevenforum.com

Windows 11 Insider Experimental (Future Platforms) build 29671.1000 - Sept. 18

Windows 11 Forum

Sep 19, 2026 - elevenforum.com