Patch Tuesday, May 2026 Edition

Artificial intelligence platforms may be just as susceptible to social engineering as human beings, but they are proving remarkably good at finding security vulnerabilities in human-made computer code. That reality is on full display this month with some of the more widely-used software makers — including Apple , Google , Microsoft , Mozilla and Oracle — fixing near record volumes of security bugs, and/or quickening the tempo of their patch releases. As it does on the second Tuesday of every mon