Mon. 07/21 – Massive SharePoint Zero-Day
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🗓️ 21 July 2025
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Serious zero-day has been uncovered that is affecting everybody all around the world. There is a patch tho. Mark Gurman dishes on the foldable iPhone. TSMC joins the Trillion-Dollar-Club. If you’re an expert in a given field you too can join the AI goldrush. And did we just take a big step toward AGI, or is this just the latest in the hype-cycle?
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- Hackers Exploit Microsoft SharePoint as Firm Works to Patch (Bloomberg)
- The First Foldable iPhone Will Arrive Next Year in Un-Apple-Like Fashion (Bloomberg)
- Nvidia's CUDA platform now supports RISC-V — support brings open source instruction set to AI platforms, joining x86 and Arm (Tom's Hardware)
- TSMC’s Taiwan Stock Value Surpasses $1 Trillion Amid AI Frenzy (Bloomberg)
- AI groups spend to replace low-cost ‘data labellers’ with high-paid experts (FT)
- OpenAI's experimental model achieved gold at the International Math Olympiad (Engadget)
- OpenAI's gold medal performance on the International Math Olympiad. (Simon Willison's Weblog)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Tech meme right home for Monday, July 21st, 2025. I'm Brian McCalla today. |
| 0:09.1 | Serious Zero Day has been uncovered that is affecting everybody all around the world. |
| 0:13.3 | There is a patch, though. |
| 0:14.8 | Mark German dishes on the foldable iPhone. |
| 0:17.0 | TSM joins the trillion dollar club. |
| 0:19.3 | If you're an expert in a given field, you too can join the AI Gold Rush. |
| 0:23.2 | And did we just take a big step toward AGI, or is this just the latest in the hype cycle? |
| 0:28.3 | Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. |
| 0:33.6 | Hey, admins and security folks. You've had some work to do today. That would be installing a patch |
| 0:39.2 | from Microsoft after a huge SharePoint Zero Day RCE flaw that was actively being exploited |
| 0:47.0 | globally on thousands of on-prem servers was revealed. Quoting Bloomberg, |
| 0:52.5 | vulnerabilities in the software have allowed hackers to access file systems and execute code, |
| 0:57.0 | the US cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency, warned on Sunday. |
| 1:02.0 | While Microsoft said over the weekend that it had released a new patch for customers to apply to |
| 1:06.0 | their SharePoint servers to, quote, mitigate active attacks targeting on-premises servers, the company was still |
| 1:11.9 | working to roll out others to address ongoing security flaws. Cybersecurity teams cautioned that a |
| 1:18.4 | broad section of organizations may be affected by the breach. Tens of thousands, if not hundreds of |
| 1:23.3 | thousands of businesses and institutions worldwide, use SharePoint in some fashion to store and |
| 1:28.6 | collaborate on documents. Microsoft said hackers are specifically targeting clients running |
| 1:33.2 | SharePoint servers from their own on-premise networks as opposed to being hosted and managed |
| 1:38.6 | by the tech firm that could limit the impact to a subsection of customers. |
| 1:43.7 | Silas Cutler, a researcher at Michigan-based |
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