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Microsoft warns October Windows update may break Smart App Control
Microsoft says some users may fail to turn on Smart App Control after installing the October KB5127648 security update.
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Patch Tuesday Triage: How to Rank Hundreds of CVEs With KEV, EPSS and Exposure
A repeatable method for ranking Patch Tuesday CVEs by known exploitation, exploit likelihood and asset exposure, worked through October 2026's record batch.
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Microsoft's October Patch Tuesday fixes more than 1,400 flaws
Microsoft issued fixes for more than 1,400 security vulnerabilities across Windows and other software. Krebs says the batch dwarfs September's record of nearly 1,000.
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Microsoft's October Patch Tuesday fixes a record 1,411 flaws
Microsoft's October 2026 Patch Tuesday addresses 1,411 flaws, with one actively exploited zero-day and two publicly disclosed ones. Krebs reports the batch dwarfs September's near-1,000 fixes.
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Quantum-Safe Certificates: How ML-DSA Is Bloating the Web's Trust Chain
Key exchange got the headlines. Now Chrome and Windows must move certificates to ML-DSA, and every signature is a kilobyte-plus payload. Here is why the trust chain is the hard part.
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Snapdragon X2 Elite: Can Windows on Arm Finally Shake Its Second-Class Stigma?
Qualcomm's Snapdragon X2 Elite promises 3nm efficiency, an 80 TOPS NPU, and faster x86 emulation. Can Windows on Arm finally shed its reputation as the laptop you return?
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The Copilot+ PC Backlash: Why Windows Recall Became a Privacy Nightmare
Microsoft's push for mandatory NPUs introduced Windows Recall, an AI feature that takes screenshots of everything you do. Here is why the security community forced them to kill it.
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The Post-CrowdStrike Reckoning: Evicting Antivirus from the Windows Kernel
The global CrowdStrike outage proved that giving third-party vendors Ring 0 access is a catastrophe. Here is how Microsoft plans to rewrite Windows security and lock them out.
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The Handheld PC Arms Race: Why Windows is Losing a War It Started
The Steam Deck OLED, ROG Ally X, and Legion Go proved handhelds are the future. But Microsoft's refusal to optimize Windows is handing the market to Linux.