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Microsoft released its September security update addressing roughly 972 vulnerabilities, including 112 rated critical, surpassing the previous record of 570 set just two months ago. The company has now fixed 2,760 vulnerabilities in 2024 alone, more than double last year's total and on pace to exceed the combined totals of the past three years.
Google has updated Sheets to support its entire Google Fonts web library, extending font options to chart titles, axis labels, data labels, and legends. Users can access these fonts via a new 'More fonts' option in the chart editor sidebar. The change also improves how custom fonts are preserved when importing or exporting files between Sheets and Excel.
Microsoft has issued the KB5122878 update for Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC and machines enrolled in the Extended Security Updates program, bumping systems to build 19045.7725 (or 19044.7725 for LTSC 2021). The update bundles this month's Patch Tuesday security fixes plus smaller changes covering Secure Boot certificate rollout, a time-zone correction for Morocco, and diagnostic and compatibility tweaks.
Microsoft's latest Patch Tuesday release addresses 966 vulnerabilities, its largest batch ever, including 105 rated Critical and two zero-days already being exploited in the wild. The count excludes 204 additional flaws Microsoft patched earlier in the month across products like Azure AI Language, Copilot Studio, and Entra ID.
The Document Foundation's LibreOffice 26.8, released August 26th, surpassed 1 million installer downloads in its first week, excluding updates via Linux repositories, making it the suite's most downloaded release ever. The foundation followed up with a post explaining that it deliberately excludes generative AI by default, citing principles like user control, no data leaving the device, no telemetry, and no vendor lock-in, while still allowing community plugins for those who want AI features.
Microsoft has shipped the September 2026 Patch Tuesday cumulative updates KB5124008 and KB5122880 for Windows 11 versions 25H2/24H2 and 23H2. The update patches roughly 1,000 vulnerabilities catalogued in recent months and is mandatory, installable via Windows Update or the Microsoft Update Catalog. Since 25H2 shares its codebase with 24H2, both versions receive identical fixes and features.
Microsoft has acknowledged that the August 2026 security update can cause 0xc0000409 errors tied to CompatTelRunner.exe on Windows Server 2016 machines running the Compatibility Appraiser telemetry service. The bug affects both physical hardware and virtual machines, including VMware and Azure deployments, generating repeated Application Error log entries under Event ID 1000.
Microsoft is set to release its largest patch Tuesday yet, fixing more than 650 security vulnerabilities in Windows, according to sources. This follows a summer of escalating patch counts—around 200 in June, 570 in July, and nearly 400 in August—driven by AI models from Anthropic and OpenAI that are uncovering software flaws far faster than before.
Microsoft has acknowledged that a memory-management change in Windows Server 2025 is causing crashes, memory corruption, and access violations in applications using Address Windowing Extensions (AWE), including SQL Server instances with Lock Pages in Memory enabled. Affected systems may show error code 0xC0000005, failed database maintenance tasks, crash dumps, and unexpected service restarts.
Brave released new benchmark data asserting its desktop browser consumes 44% less CPU, 28% less memory, and 10% less energy than Chrome, Edge, and Firefox, while loading full pages about 20% faster. The company attributes the gains largely to blocking ads, trackers, and analytics scripts that would otherwise generate extra background processing after the visible page content loads.
Following a proof-of-concept with 172 employees, Switzerland's Federal Council has expanded testing of the German open-source suite openDesk to 3,000 government workstations, about 7% of the federal workforce. The pilot, running alongside Microsoft 365, aims for full migration by end of 2027, while the country's Cyber Command plans to fully replace Microsoft 365 with openDesk by October 2026.
A long-time Bing Wallpaper user reported that the desktop app displayed a full-screen advertisement for a Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts box set instead of the usual daily wallpaper image. The user said this was the first time they had encountered such an ad after years of regular use, and initially suspected their system had been infected with adware.