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Microsoft's November 2026 Patch Tuesday addressed 1,235 vulnerabilities, including CVE-2026-124194, an actively exploited Outlook spoofing zero-day. The release includes 66 critical flaws and 296 remote code execution bugs, with roughly 639 affecting Windows components, following 1,411 fixes in October.
Waze and Garmin have partnered to let cyclists using Garmin smartwatches or Edge bike computers broadcast their location via LiveTrack directly to Waze. Drivers running Waze will get an in-app notification and see a moving icon when a cyclist with the feature enabled is nearby. The feature is opt-in, automatically deactivates when the ride ends, and Waze says it does not share the cyclist's name, identity, or route.
Grindr will roll out a premium subscription tier called Edge on November 17, priced at $120 a month and limited to 1 percent of its global monthly users, with early access starting today. The tier includes AI-driven features such as Insights, which estimates compatibility and reply likelihood, and Reconnect, which resurfaces past connections, alongside a redesigned interface. CEO George Arison disclosed the plan during a Reddit AMA, where he also criticized the US government's handling of inflation and affordability.
RTings reports that 14 of 16 LG WOLED televisions in its long-running burn-in test, all manufactured between 2020 and 2022, have developed a defect it calls 'edge rot,' where pixels along the screen edges progressively darken in a mold-like pattern. Three Samsung QD-OLED sets in the same test showed no such symptoms. RTings says it cannot yet determine whether newer LG WOLED panels, whose manufacturing reportedly improved in 2024, are affected, since its test period ended in 2025.
A long-term durability test by RTINGS ran 16 WOLED TVs from 2020-2023 for 18,000 hours, roughly a decade of typical use, and found 14 developed what it calls 'edge rot'—dead pixels or dark clusters along the screen borders. The defect appeared independent of on-screen content, unlike burn-in, and affected older LG Display WBC panels more than newer WBE ones, while Samsung's three QD-OLED sets showed no dead pixels at all.
Google Health Premium subscribers can turn off the app's AI Coach through the Feature privacy controls menu or via Google Health settings under Coaching. Users can also opt for reduced
Apple TV has ordered a third season of 'Knife Edge: Chasing Michelin Stars,' announced the same day its second season finale aired. The new season will run eight episodes, following the show's format of profiling restaurants worldwide as they pursue Michelin Star recognition. Host Jesse Burgess, with executive producer Gordon Ramsay, will return for the next run.
Startup Underdog launched Woof, a 31.7MB text-to-speech model with 31 million parameters that runs entirely in a browser without internet access. The company showcased it through a retro-themed browser game where users can type text for the model to speak and manipulate a music tuner, all voiced by Woof. Underdog made the model open for download, and the demo follows the company's earlier release of Bark, a 167MB speech-to-text model for edge devices.
A commentary piece argues that products and services are typically designed for an 'average' user, often excluding people at the margins. It suggests that examining who has been left out of design decisions can reveal opportunities for innovation.
Microsoft has published specifics behind its earlier claims that 8GB Windows 11 machines now run up to 20% more responsively and 40% faster at multitasking. Since January, changes include faster Start menu, File Explorer and Settings access, quicker Edge launches, default Efficiency Mode in Teams, and apps like Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook using up to 360MB less RAM. Microsoft also points to features like sleeping inactive tabs after 15 minutes and on-demand widget loading as further memory-saving measures.
Microsoft released a Windows 11 update that it says makes the OS up to 20 percent more responsive and multitasking up to 40 percent faster on PCs with 8GB of RAM, according to Windows chief Pavan Davuluri. The gains come largely from improved memory compression, letting Windows keep up to 2GB more active data in RAM rather than offloading it to slower disk storage, alongside memory-saving changes to Edge, widgets, and Microsoft 365 apps that Davuluri says cut committed-memory growth by up to 900MB.
Google's new Fitbit Edge fitness tracker does not include an NFC chip, meaning it cannot support Google Wallet tap-to-pay. Several older Fitbit models, including the Charge 4, 5 and 6 and various Sense and Versa smartwatches, do include NFC and can use Google Wallet, which replaced Fitbit Pay in 2024. Apple Wallet is not supported on any Fitbit device regardless of NFC.