December Security Patch News Today

Where to begin. Over the past few years, I've had the privilege of being able to review, check out, or purchase a wide variety of Android phones. Some have been pretty great and are the industry standard. Others, not so much. But there is one fact that remains across all of them, regardless of what name you may find on the back. Software updates have been a massive pain point for Android users for years, as phone makers continue to struggle when it comes to releasing even monthly security u...

Where to begin. Over the past few years, I've had the privilege of being able to review, check out, or purchase a wide variety of Android phones. Some have been pretty great and are the industry standard. Others, not so much. But there is one fact that remains across all of them, regardless of what name you may find on the back. Software updates have been a massive pain point for Android users for years, as phone makers continue to struggle when it comes to releasing even monthly security u...

Earlier this month, Google started rolling out the December Security Patch for Pixel owners. Suspiciously, the Pixel 6 and 6 Pro were not a part of the initial wave of the rollout. Presumably, this had to do with the Pixel 6 series still being a bit newer and the security patch needing to be properly adapted for the Tensor chip. However, now the update started arriving for some users, bringing with it a rather frustrating bug. Users on Reddit and other areas of the web started complaining about ...