Apple patched a critical, decade-old iOS zero-day vulnerability that was actively exploited in the wild, according to a report from Apple on February 12, 2026. The flaw, affecting every iOS version since 1.0, allowed attackers to execute arbitrary code and was used in what Apple described as an "extremely sophisticated attack" targeting specific individuals.
The vulnerability, identified as CVE-2026-20700, was discovered by Google's Threat Analysis Group and resided in dyld, Apple's dynamic linker. The company stated that the vulnerability allowed attackers with memory write capabilities to execute arbitrary code. Apple's advisory noted that the flaw may have been part of an exploit chain.
In other news, the Lumma Stealer, a notorious infostealer that infected nearly 395,000 Windows computers in a two-month span last year, has resurfaced. Researchers reported on Wednesday that Lumma is back with hard-to-detect attacks designed to steal credentials and sensitive files. The malware, also known as Lumma Stealer, first appeared in Russian-speaking cybercrime forums in 2022. It utilized a cloud-based malware-as-a-service model, providing a sprawling infrastructure of domains for hosting lure sites offering free cracked software, games, and pirated movies, according to Ars Technica.
Meanwhile, in the realm of technological advancements, researchers at MIT, the Improbable AI Lab, and ETH Zurich developed a new technique that allows large language models (LLMs) to learn new skills and knowledge without forgetting their past capabilities. Their technique, called self-distillation fine-tuning (SDFT), enables models to learn directly from demonstrations and their own experiments by leveraging the inherent in-context learning abilities of modern LLMs. Experiments showed that SDFT consistently outperforms traditional supervised fine-tuning (SFT), according to VentureBeat.
In the world of open-source software, the team behind Tyr made significant progress in 2025 in their quest to produce a Rust GPU driver for Arm Mali hardware. By the end of the year, they were able to run SuperTuxKart at the Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC). The prototype was a joint effort between Arm, Collabora, and Google, and the performance was more than adequate for players, according to Hacker News.
Finally, in sports, Jordan Stolz, representing the U.S., won the men's 1000 meters speedskating race at the 2026 Winter Olympics on Wednesday. Stolz, who has dreamed of this moment since he was a child, is aiming for four gold medals at the games, according to NPR News.
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