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Microsoft's Patch Tuesday just set a new kind of record no one wanted. The company pushed fixes for twelve hundred fifty-nine vulnerabilities this week, the second straight month topping one thousand flaws. Among the most urgent is an actively exploited bug in Outlook that can expose NTLMv2 authentication hashes, potentially handing attackers a path into corporate networks.
Intel and AMD were also busy this week, jointly disclosing more than two hundred vulnerabilities of their own. Intel's fixes target critical flaws in its Trusted Domain Extensions software, which is designed to protect sensitive workloads in the cloud. AMD addressed a large cluster of graphics-related bugs. Together, the disclosures underscore just how much security debt lives inside the hardware and firmware most of us never think about.
Meanwhile, OpenAI continues its familiar balancing act between growth and loss. The company behind ChatGPT reported quarterly revenue of ten billion dollars, a roughly fifty percent jump from the prior period. But operating losses remain steep, raising the ongoing question of whether the economics of frontier AI can ever catch up with its ambitions.
Stay curious, stay patched. Tech Beat out.
