Update Chrome Now: CVE-2026-5281 Is the Fourth Zero-Day of 2026 — Why WebGPU Is the New Browser Battleground
On April 1, 2026, Google patched a high-severity use-after-free in Dawn, the WebGPU engine shared by Chrome, Edge, Brave, and Opera. CISA added CVE-2026-5281 to the KEV catalog within 24 hours. Here is the exact patch, hardening, and account-rotation playbook I ran across every machine I admin.