# PSA: Keep your software updated, especially operating systems and browsers
**URL:** https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/psa-keep-your-software-updated-especially-operating-systems-and-browsers/2168
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**Created:** [April 10, 2026, 5:49pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/psa-keep-your-software-updated-especially-operating-systems-and-browsers/2168 "2026-04-10T17:49:26Z")
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### Author:  [@Elliot](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Elliot)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2026, 5:49pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/psa-keep-your-software-updated-especially-operating-systems-and-browsers/2168/1 "2026-04-10T17:49:27Z")
AIs are getting good at coding and improving rapidly. They’re finding more and more software security holes and writing exploits. Software updates are your best defense.
Sorry if you’re still on Windows 10 or other hardware that isn’t getting software updates anymore. In that case, buying new hardware is advisable (or switch your Windows 10 PC to linux, assuming it’s not compatible with Windows 11).
One of the big issues is AI makes attention cheap. AIs can review code that wouldn’t have gotten much expert human attention. This is a big deal and will find issues even if the AI isn’t as good as the expert.
On a similar note, companies and governments have a lot of data about people (including their public internet presence and much more) but didn’t have the manpower to read through all of it. AIs can read through it.
> **[Vulnerability Research Is Cooked — Quarrelsome](https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/03/30/vulnerability-research-is-cooked/)**
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### Author:  [@Dface](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Dface)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2026, 6:22pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/psa-keep-your-software-updated-especially-operating-systems-and-browsers/2168/2 "2026-04-10T18:22:16Z")
Im running Mac on Catalina. I don’t like updating it cuz it starts getting hot and runs slow. I gotta get a new computer or update if my computer’s in danger.
From wat im understanding my computer’s not safe. How? It seems like AI is writing code(maybe?) that can expose my information. Maybe like saved passwords and documents
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### Author:  [@Jarrod](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Jarrod)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2026, 10:32pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/psa-keep-your-software-updated-especially-operating-systems-and-browsers/2168/3 "2026-04-10T22:32:58Z")
Thanks for the advice!
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### Author:  [@Oracle](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Oracle)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2026, 10:54pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/psa-keep-your-software-updated-especially-operating-systems-and-browsers/2168/4 "2026-04-10T22:54:37Z")
> **[Digital hygiene](https://karpathy.bearblog.dev/digital-hygiene/)**
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> A guide to basic digital hygiene.