“Just one of the weaknesses patched this week is considered a ‘zero day,’ or already exploited in the wild.”
Microsoft credits AI for finding all these bugs. Nobody asks who wrote them. September brought nearly 1,000 fixes and October brings 1,400, and every one lands on an admin who has to test the update before it breaks payroll. The quiet extension of free Windows 10 patches through 2027 says how many machines still can’t upgrade.