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Tuesday 20 October 2026 Latest

Automattic’s 33-hour board revolt, Google update talk and more

• Automattic's board tried to remove Matt Mullenweg for 33 hours
• Is there a Google October update? Google's dashboard says no
• Google tests a "Source preferences" button in AI Mode
• Google Posts move higher in the local business panel
• Four Gemini 4 agents beat Minecraft with no human help
• Microsoft 365 E7 will score every AI agent for risk

and 5 more stories

Monday 19 October 2026

Touchscreen MacBook Pro date, ChatGPT tracking fix and Pele

• Apple's touchscreen OLED MacBook Pro could launch on 6 November
• ChatGPT traffic drop in GA4 was a tracking bug, now fixed
• DeepSeek opens a web Search and Fetch API for AI agents
• OpenAI will build a humanoid robot, with a demo planned for 2027
• Obsidian's Pele renders Mermaid diagrams up to 500 times faster
• Cloudflare Workers let you test Cron Triggers locally

and 2 more stories

Sunday 18 October 2026

Rank Math PRO malware, ChatGPT Slides and Shopify batch shipping

• Rank Math PRO 3.0.123 shipped with malware for about 11 hours
• ChatGPT Slides makes decks you can edit together and export
• Shopify lets you fulfil up to 250 orders in one batch
• Google tests ads in AI Mode for Personal Intelligence users
• Google Merchant Center adds a warranty attribute for products
• DeepSeek V4.1-Flash-1017 brings open weights and a 1M context

and 4 more stories

Saturday 17 October 2026

Backuply fix, a critical Chrome patch and Meta’s Mac-ready AI

• Backuply 1.5.9 fixes a SQL injection flaw on 600,000 WordPress sites
• Chrome 155.0.8059.84 fixes a critical Prerender flaw
• BeyondTrust Remote Support zero-day used in attacks since August
• PwnEscape Linux kernel flaw lets guest VMs read host memory
• Google rankings swing, but rank trackers are part of the problem
• Google removes the default Indexing API quota from its docs

and 5 more stories

Friday 16 October 2026

Next.js critical fixes, a Cisco email flaw and Google’s AI links

• Next.js 16.4.1 and 15.5.28 fix two critical code execution flaws
• Cisco Secure Email Gateway flaw CVE-2026-76519 is under attack
• Drupal 11.4.10 fixes critical Field UI flaw CVE-2026-108097
• NGINX 1.30.6 and 1.31.7 fix five flaws
• Nextcloud servers backdoored through the Collabora CODE app
• GitHub Actions lockfiles arrive as GhostAction hits 1,900 accounts

and 6 more stories

Thursday 15 October 2026

Windows zero-day fix, a Ghostscript PDF flaw and ChatGPT traffic

• Microsoft fixes 1,411 flaws, including an exploited Windows zero-day
• Ghostscript flaw lets a PDF upload reach WordPress servers
• Chrome 155 update fixes 37 flaws, seven of them critical
• Ivanti Connect Secure zero-day CVE-2026-104935 is under attack
• ChatGPT visits now show up as direct traffic after GPT-6
• CrUX adds Core Web Vitals that count single-page app clicks

and 5 more stories

Wednesday 14 October 2026

AIOSEO fix, Firefox 158 JPEG XL and ChatGPT’s new sources

• All in One SEO 5.0.2.1 fixes two flaws on 2 million WordPress sites
• SAP fixes CVSS 10 flaw CVE-2026-89111 in its Cloud SDK for Python
• Firefox 158 adds JPEG XL images and CSS typed arithmetic
• Meta launches Muse Wonder, its first frontier AI model
• Gemini 4 Argon now powers AI Mode in Google Search for paid users
• ChatGPT now cites original sources more, Ahrefs data shows

and 3 more stories

Tuesday 13 October 2026

GitLab’s CVSS 10 fix, SonicWall attacks and 64-day certificates

• GitLab fixes CVSS 10 flaw CVE-2026-97229 in self-managed servers
• SonicWall SMA1000 flaw CVE-2026-102255 is now under attack
• Let's Encrypt certificates will last 64 days from February 2027
• Google is feeding rank trackers wrong results, Nozzle says
• Google Discover may become an AI "concierge", a job ad suggests
• Microsoft Maia 300 will run its AI services from 2027

and 5 more stories

Monday 12 October 2026

Zombify exploit, a dead store tag and Search Console delays

• Zombify WordPress plugin flaw has public exploit code and no fix
• Expired ecomtrack.io domain turns old store tags into a malware trap
• Chrome and Edge miss lookalike domains built with two letters
• Google Search Console performance data is up to 67 hours late
• Microsoft Decision-1 makes yes or no AI answers almost free
• Nvidia in talks to buy or back open model maker Reflection AI

and 3 more stories

Sunday 11 October 2026

Claude agents hit real sites, WordPress fixes and Bun 1.4.3

• Anthropic says Claude agents hacked and spammed real websites
• Four WordPress plugins fix critical CVSS 9.8 flaws
• GitHub Actions worm adds fake "security audit" workflows
• Vercel will delete Pro deployments older than 30 days from 23 October
• Cloudflare's Clef-omni AI model reads text, images, audio and video
• Bun 1.4.3 adds bun check, a fast TypeScript type checker

and 5 more stories