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The update notes of the launcher isn't showing anything, it's just loading forever.

Here's what's on the launcher log, maybe you guys can figure out what it means and how I can fix this.

[10:22:43 INFO]: Minecraft Launcher 1.5.3 (through bootstrap 5) started on windows...
[10:22:43 INFO]: Current time is Oct 1, 2014 10:22:43 AM
[10:22:43 INFO]: System.getProperty('os.name') == 'Windows 8.1'
[10:22:43 INFO]: System.getProperty('os.version') == '6.3'
[10:22:43 INFO]: System.getProperty('os.arch') == 'amd64'
[10:22:43 INFO]: System.getProperty('java.version') == '1.7.0_67'
[10:22:43 INFO]: System.getProperty('java.vendor') == 'Oracle Corporation'
[10:22:43 INFO]: System.getProperty('sun.arch.data.model') == '64'
[10:22:43 INFO]: JFX has been detected & successfully loaded
[10:22:43 INFO]: Refreshing local version list...
[10:22:43 INFO]: Refreshing remote version list...
[10:22:43 ERROR]: Unexpected exception refreshing version list
java.net.SocketException: Unrecognized Windows Sockets error: 10106: create
at java.net.Socket.createImpl(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.7.0_67]
at java.net.Socket.connect(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.7.0_67]
at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.7.0_67]
at sun.net.NetworkClient.doConnect(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.7.0_67]
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.7.0_67]
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.7.0_67]
at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsClient.<init>(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.7.0_67]
at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsClient.New(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.7.0_67]
at sun.net.www.protocol.https.AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.getNewHttpClient(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.7.0_67]
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.plainConnect(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.7.0_67]
at sun.net.www.protocol.https.AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.connect(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.7.0_67]
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.7.0_67]
at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.getInputStream(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.7.0_67]
at com.mojang.launcher.Http.performGet(Http.java:54) ~[launcher.jar:?]
at net.minecraft.launcher.updater.RemoteVersionList.getContent(RemoteVersionList.java:27) ~[launcher.jar:?]
at net.minecraft.launcher.updater.VersionList.refreshVersions(VersionList.java:85) ~[launcher.jar:?]
at net.minecraft.launcher.updater.MinecraftVersionManager.refreshVersions(MinecraftVersionManager.java:60) ~[launcher.jar:?]
at net.minecraft.launcher.Launcher$2.run(Launcher.java:131) [launcher.jar:?]
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Unknown Source) [?:1.7.0_67]
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source) [?:1.7.0_67]
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source) [?:1.7.0_67]
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source) [?:1.7.0_67]
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) [?:1.7.0_67]
[10:22:44 INFO]: Loaded 1 profile(s); selected 'Moon_Dew'
[10:22:44 INFO]: Refreshing auth...
[10:22:44 INFO]: Logging in with access token
[10:22:44 ERROR]: Exception whilst logging into profile
com.mojang.authlib.exceptions.AuthenticationUnavailableException: Cannot contact authentication server
at com.mojang.authlib.yggdrasil.YggdrasilAuthenticationService.makeRequest(YggdrasilAuthenticationService.java:71) ~[launcher.jar:?]
at com.mojang.authlib.yggdrasil.YggdrasilUserAuthentication.logInWithToken(YggdrasilUserAuthentication.java:132) ~[launcher.jar:?]
at com.mojang.authlib.yggdrasil.YggdrasilUserAuthentication.logIn(YggdrasilUserAuthentication.java:55) ~[launcher.jar:?]
at net.minecraft.launcher.Launcher.ensureLoggedIn(Launcher.java:213) [launcher.jar:?]
at net.minecraft.launcher.Launcher$2.run(Launcher.java:167) [launcher.jar:?]
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Unknown Source) [?:1.7.0_67]
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source) [?:1.7.0_67]
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source) [?:1.7.0_67]
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source) [?:1.7.0_67]
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) [?:1.7.0_67]
Caused by: java.net.SocketException: Unrecognized Windows Sockets error: 10106: create
at java.net.Socket.createImpl(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.7.0_67]
at java.net.Socket.connect(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.7.0_67]
at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.7.0_67]
at sun.net.NetworkClient.doConnect(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.7.0_67]
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.7.0_67]
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.7.0_67]
at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsClient.<init>(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.7.0_67]
at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsClient.New(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.7.0_67]
at sun.net.www.protocol.https.AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.getNewHttpClient(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.7.0_67]
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.plainConnect(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.7.0_67]
at sun.net.www.protocol.https.AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.connect(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.7.0_67]
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getOutputStream(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.7.0_67]
at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.getOutputStream(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.7.0_67]
at com.mojang.authlib.HttpAuthenticationService.performPostRequest(HttpAuthenticationService.java:73) ~[launcher.jar:?]
at com.mojang.authlib.yggdrasil.YggdrasilAuthenticationService.makeRequest(YggdrasilAuthenticationService.java:54) ~[launcher.jar:?]
... 9 more

Bump, because I can't fix this on my own here.

Bump, because I want to play Minecraft but I cannot until this is fixed and I cannot fix it on my own, please help.

Bump because I don't know what's wrong and would like to fix this so I can play Minecraft.

Seriously, is anyone even bothering to read this? Besides that, I know I'm not the only one with this problem, I've looked around and I've seen several people with the very same complaint.

yes this has been posted several times, and AFAIK never fixed.

There's something wrong with your windows network configuration. Could be some driver that was partially uninstalled, malware, virus, who knows.

But this is the crux of your problem "Windows Sockets error: 10106"

Googling that finds lots of hits, no silver bullet.