In October's news - AI usage continues to spread and evolve, malware attacks SQL 2012 and 2014, and critical security updates for Windows, SQL 2016, and SQL 2017 are released.
This month, Microsoft released Cumulative Update 10 for SQL Server 2016 SP2 and Cumulative Update 17 for SQL Server 2017.
You can find the list of the latest Windows Security updates for October 2019 here.