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Microsoft is warning users that a patch issued for a Windows zero-day vulnerability — one previously exploited by Russian intelligence operatives — did not fully close the door. A second flaw is now actively under attack, and both Microsoft and the federal cybersecurity agency CISA are urging users to update immediately. It's a reminder that patching is rarely as clean as it sounds.
Meanwhile, the Federal Trade Commission has reached a settlement with Celsius founder Alex Mashinsky, banning him from the cryptocurrency industry entirely. The deal comes with a ten million dollar penalty — a striking reduction from an initial judgment of four point seven billion dollars. Mashinsky's collapse of Celsius left hundreds of thousands of customers locked out of their savings, and the gap between that number and the settlement will not go unnoticed.
On the stranger side of artificial intelligence, a thirteen-billion-parameter model called Talkie-nineteen-thirty has been released, trained exclusively on text published before nineteen thirty. It has no knowledge of the second world war, modern politics, or the internet. Researchers and journalists who tested it found the results by turns fascinating and genuinely eerie — a window into how much the world we assume is simply the world we happened to build.
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