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Microsoft has confirmed that the August 2026 .NET Framework cumulative update causes some WPF-based applications to throw a System.IO.FileFormatException when printing or exporting to PDF/XPS with fonts like Calibri. The bug affects current Windows 10 and 11 releases as well as Windows Server versions from 2012 through 2025, and Microsoft is still working on a permanent fix.
Valve LLC was formally registered on August 24, 1996, by two ex-Microsoft employees, Gabe Newell and Mike Harrington, who left secure jobs to bet on making games. They funded the venture with personal savings, a stock sale, borrowed money, and a deal with publisher Sierra On-Line that gave up 30% of revenue and their intellectual property. That gamble led to Half-Life in 1998 and eventually Steam, which began as a simple patch-delivery tool before becoming the dominant PC gaming storefront.
Microsoft has released a temporary fix for a bug introduced by its August 2026 Windows 11 updates (KB5121003 and later) that caused games like ARC Raiders, MARVEL Tōkon: Fighting Souls, and The Finals to crash, freeze, or trigger system restarts. The company traced the problem to a driver file called inpoutx64.sys, commonly bundled with RGB lighting peripherals, which conflicts with recent changes made to the Windows kernel. Users can now manually disable this driver through the Windows Registry while Microsoft works on a permanent patch.
A free, high-performing AI model called Ox Alpha appeared on OpenRouter this week, listed only as a 'stealth model' built by an anonymous third party for coding and agentic tasks. Stripe CEO Patrick Collison praised it publicly, fueling widespread speculation across X and Reddit about its origin, with theories ranging from China's Z.ai GLM models to an unreleased Microsoft MAI build.
Microsoft ended free premium Office licenses for smaller nonprofits worldwide, and many organizations discovered their stored data—including Word, Excel, and OneDrive files—had been permanently deleted without adequate warning. Ronald Khosla, who runs the environmental venture fund Canopy, says he was told by Microsoft support that his data could be recovered, only to later learn it was gone for good.