Book Riot’s list of the worst page-to-screen adaptations of 2026, published on 23 October, sorts into two very different failures once you put the critic and audience scores side by side. Practical Magic 2 sits 54 points apart on the two measures, while The Last Thing He Told Me lost both sides at once.
Dexter: Resurrection returns on 30 October 2026 with Harrison Morgan working in law enforcement, which puts him in the job that killed Debra. Season 2 adds a living mentor beside Dexter’s usual ghost, and that changes how the show can argue with itself.
Barnes and Noble’s 16 finalists for its 2026 Book of the Year divide into six novels, seven nonfiction titles and three books for young readers, with the winner named on 12 November 2026. The mix records what the chain can hand-sell as much as what critics liked.
YAGA started on AMC+ on 23 October 2026 with an 80% critic score built on five reviews, a sample small enough to move on one verdict. The show adapts Kat Sandler’s own 2019 play across eight episodes of about 30 minutes each.
OpenAI’s published breakdown of the ChatGPT ads stack shows five stages where an impression can drop out, including one after the auction has already been won. It also withholds the stage-level reporting and conversion benchmarks an advertiser would need to tell those cases apart.
The PHP Foundation published 15 CVEs since 1 July this year and says tools now find bugs faster for attackers as well as defenders. The window from patch to attempted exploitation is hours, and on shared hosting the patch schedule is not yours to set. Here is what to ask a host, and what I checked on my own site.
Most sites on a patched PHP build were never touched, and CISA says it has not seen exploitation in the wild. This is a checking routine anyway: seven signs a compromise leaves behind, where to look for each without a paid scanner, and the order to fix things in if you find one.
Your PHP version sits under Tools, Site Health, Info, Server, and the host panel is where you change it. Here is the full path in WordPress, the four patched numbers for each PHP line, and the backup-first order that keeps the site up while you switch. It ends with a four-line message you can send support.
Two PHP bugs let strangers run code on servers without logging in. The fixes landed on 21 October, after the CVE numbers leaked and attempts were already showing up. Here is what happened across the week, which versions were affected, and what to check on your own site.