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News Tuesday 20 October Automattic’s 33-hour board revolt, Google update talk and more Today: Automattic's board tried to remove Matt Mullenweg, no confirmed Google October update, AI Mode source preferences and Gemini agents beat Minecraft. October 20, 2026 · 7 min read

News Monday 19 October Touchscreen MacBook Pro date, ChatGPT tracking fix and Pele Today: a 6 November date for the touchscreen MacBook Pro, the ChatGPT tracking bug explained, DeepSeek's search API, OpenAI's robot and a faster Mermaid. October 19, 2026 · 6 min read

News Sunday 18 October Rank Math PRO malware, ChatGPT Slides and Shopify batch shipping Today: malware in Rank Math PRO 3.0.123, ChatGPT Slides, two big open AI models, Shopify batch fulfilment and the first ads in Google's AI Mode. October 18, 2026 · 7 min read

News Tuesday 13 October GitLab’s CVSS 10 fix, SonicWall attacks and 64-day certificates Today: a CVSS 10 GitLab fix, SonicWall attacks, Let's Encrypt's 64-day certificates, Google poisoning rank trackers, Microsoft Maia 300 and the Fitbit Edge. October 13, 2026 · 7 min read

Dev log SEO & AI search Canonical URLs: fix duplicate pages for better SEO When one page opens at several addresses, a canonical tag tells Google which one is real. Here's how to set it up and test it on WordPress and Shopify. October 12, 2026 · 8 min read

News Monday 12 October Zombify exploit, a dead store tag and Search Console delays Today: a Zombify plugin flaw with no fix, an expired tracking domain that hits online stores, Chrome lookalike domains, late Search Console data and Microsoft Decision-1. October 12, 2026 · 6 min read

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News Saturday 10 October Bricksforge attacks, Deno joins Cloudflare and a Gemini agent Today: a Bricksforge flaw under attack, Deno joins Cloudflare, a critical NetScaler fix, Next.js security update news and Google's new Gemini agent. October 10, 2026 · 6 min read

News Friday 9 October GPT-6 for everyone, Claude Haiku 5.5 and an npm wiper worm Today: GPT-6 reaches every ChatGPT user, Claude Haiku 5.5 cuts prices 90%, a Tensorlake npm worm, WooCommerce 11.2 and Google's spam update ends. October 9, 2026 · 7 min read

News Thursday 8 October Ninja Forms attacks, WordPress 7.1.3 and Mistral Large 4 Today: Ninja Forms is under attack, WordPress 7.1.3 fixes seven flaws, Chrome 155 patches 247 bugs, Mistral Large 4 lands and Nano Banana 2.1 halves prices. October 8, 2026 · 7 min read

News Wednesday 7 October Google’s fake author warning, Atlassian fix, ChatGPT watermarks Today: Google warns against fake authors, a critical Atlassian fix, a LibreOffice spreadsheet flaw, ChatGPT watermarks in the EU and Markdown in Google Docs. October 7, 2026 · 7 min read

News Tuesday 6 October Citrix NetScaler zero-day, ChatGPT image ads and Google timelines Today: an exploited Citrix NetScaler zero-day, Rejetto HFS attacks, ads in ChatGPT image generation and Google's real crawl and index timelines. October 6, 2026 · 7 min read