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Microsoft Retired a Free Nonprofit Grant. The Data Went With It.
Microsoft's retirement of free nonprofit licenses became a mass data-loss event in 2026 — and the deletion machinery worked exactly as documented.
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Microsoft's August 2026 Patch Tuesday: 400 Flaws, 3 Zero-Days
August's Patch Tuesday lands at 400 fixes — huge, but no new record. Lazarus exploited an afd.sys zero-day to plant a rootkit, LegacyHive gets its patch, and a wormable DNS Server flaw tops the 9.8s.
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Microsoft's July 2026 Patch Tuesday: 570 Flaws, 3 Zero-Days
Microsoft's July Patch Tuesday ships 570 fixes by BleepingComputer's count, 621 by ZDI's — two exploited zero-days in AD FS and SharePoint included. June's all-time record lasted exactly one month, and Microsoft spent the preceding week explaining why: an AI discovery harness now feeds the pipeline, and volumes go up from here.
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Microsoft 365 Prices Rise July 1 — but Not Until You Renew
The first Microsoft 365 price increase since 2022 takes effect July 1 — but most businesses won't pay more until their next renewal, and an early one can lock in today's rate.
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RoguePlanet Gives SYSTEM on Patched Windows. The Bigger Story Is Why.
A researcher dropped a seventh Windows zero-day hours after Patch Tuesday: RoguePlanet spawns a SYSTEM shell on fully-patched Windows 10 and 11, with no CVE and no fix. The exploit is narrower than it sounds — but the disclosure war that produced it is the part worth watching.
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Microsoft's June 2026 Patch Tuesday: A Record 200 Flaws, 3 Zero-Days
The largest Patch Tuesday ever shipped: roughly 200 vulnerabilities, 33 Critical, three publicly disclosed zero-days, and a CVSS 9.8 in Nuance PowerScribe that radiology shops should not sit on. The Secure Boot certificate deadline is 17 days out — this is the last Patch Tuesday before it.
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Cortechs Brings Quantitative MRI Into PowerScribe One
Cortechs.ai and Microsoft will route NeuroQuant and OnQ Prostate results straight into the PowerScribe One report. For radiologists, the real win is ARIA surveillance and prostate RSI findings that land in the report instead of being dictated off a second screen.
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Microsoft's May 2026 Patch Tuesday: 120 Flaws, No Zero-Days
Microsoft's May Patch Tuesday addresses 120 vulnerabilities and contains no zero-days — the first such month since June 2024. Among the Critical fixes are three RCEs at CVSS 9.8 or higher: Netlogon, Windows DNS Client, and Microsoft Dynamics 365. The Secure Boot certificate deadline is 45 days out.
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Microsoft Ships OOB Fix After April Patch Breaks Domain Controllers
Microsoft released emergency out-of-band updates for every supported Windows Server version after April's Patch Tuesday put domain controllers into LSASS-crash restart loops. Here's what broke, which KBs fix it, and who actually needs to act.
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Microsoft's April 2026 Patch Tuesday: 163 Flaws and Two Zero-Days
Microsoft's April Patch Tuesday addresses 163 vulnerabilities — the second-largest monthly release in company history — including an actively exploited SharePoint spoofing zero-day, a publicly disclosed Defender privilege escalation linked to the BlueHammer proof-of-concept, and a wormable TCP/IP RCE. The Secure Boot certificate cliff is 73 days out.