Oracle’s quarterly Critical Patch Update landed on October 20, 2026, and this one deserves more attention than the usual “update when you get around to it” security release. The CPU patched 55 separate vulnerabilities in Java SE alone, part of a much larger update covering over 1,200 CVEs across Oracle’s full product line, and per … Read more
Microsoft shipped its October 2026 Patch Tuesday update for Windows 11 on October 13, 2026, and it is a bigger release than the “preview” update from earlier in the month suggested. If you installed last month’s preview update before Patch Tuesday, this is the one that actually matters for most people, since it folds in … Read more
Oracle’s October 2026 Critical Patch Update landed on October 20, 2026, with the usual batch of quarterly Java SE fixes. A day later, Oracle published a second, unscheduled alert: CVE-2026-91403, a 9.1-severity flaw in the part of Java that decides whether a website’s security certificate can actually be trusted. If you run Java on your … Read more
Windows 10 was supposed to go without security patches for most consumers once Microsoft’s one-year, no-cost consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) window closed on October 13, 2026. Instead, on June 25, 2026, Microsoft quietly updated its support page: consumer ESU coverage now runs through October 12, 2027, with no new sign-up step for anyone already … Read more
Microsoft shipped its October 2026 Patch Tuesday updates on October 13, closing out a record-setting month: 1,411 vulnerabilities fixed across Microsoft’s products, around 70 of them rated critical, plus two zero-days — one of which, CVE-2026-96951, Microsoft confirms is already being actively exploited. If you have been putting off this month’s update because the changelog … Read more
For most of its history, YouTube comments supported only text and a small set of emoji. That’s changing. YouTube is rolling out support for GIFs and images directly inside the comment section, announced around the “Made on YouTube” event and now appearing for a growing share of viewers, with multiple outlets reporting a full rollout … Read more
On September 23, 2026, at YouTube’s “Made on YouTube” event, the company rolled out Shorts series — a way to organize your Shorts into TV-style seasons and episodes instead of leaving them as disconnected clips. It extends Creator Shows, the long-form seasons-and-episodes format YouTube introduced in 2025, down to vertical, under-180-second video, and adds custom … Read more
YouTube Shorts just got a structural feature long-form video has had for years: the ability to group individual videos into a proper series with seasons and episodes, instead of leaving viewers to stumble onto a random clip with no way to find the rest. YouTube announced Shorts series at its Made on YouTube 2026 event … Read more
A Windows 11 update that hangs at a percentage, fails repeatedly, or refuses to install at all is one of the most common Windows complaints there is, and September 2026 has been a particularly bad month for it — Microsoft’s own KB5124008 update patched roughly 974 vulnerabilities, the largest single-month total on record, and larger … Read more
YouTube’s homepage has run on one algorithmic feed for almost its entire existence. At the Made on YouTube 2026 event on September 23, YouTube announced Custom Feeds, a feature that lets you describe the kind of feed you want in plain language and get a dedicated homepage tab built around it. Here’s what it actually … Read more
