Hacker News with Generative AI: Microsoft Windows

Microsoft patches Windows to eliminate Secure Boot bypass threat (arstechnica.com)
For the past seven months—and likely longer—an industry-wide standard that protects Windows devices from firmware infections could be bypassed using a simple technique. On Tuesday, Microsoft finally patched the vulnerability. The status of Linux systems is still unclear.
"Bush hid the facts" bug (wikipedia.org)
"Bush hid the facts" is a common name for a bug present in Microsoft Windows which causes text encoded in ASCII to be interpreted as if it were UTF-16LE, resulting in garbled text.
Who Is Windows For? (ycombinator.com)
Microsoft Windows exists to drive profits for Microsoft. Windows doesn't really serve users anymore. Everything is a dark pattern. Back in the day, the DOJ would have sued them, but now it's business as usual. As consumers we have no choice but to use this product or the Epic games store and it's absurd.
Microsoft Account to local account conversion guide erased from Windows 11 guide (tomshardware.com)
ExectOS – brand new operating system which derives from NT architecture (exectos.eu.org)
Forget Copilot+, Windows is already tracking everything you do (xda-developers.com)