Coinworld News, on January 27th, according to official sources, the TON Core team announced that they will release a major update in the first half of 2025, including: a large 'accelerator' kernel update on the Mainnet; new tools for validators; improved Toncenter API (operations, pending, simulation, domain); user experience improvements + collaboration with community products; release of Payment Network L2 (Payment Network Layer 2); sidechain research; new features of TOLK 1.0 (structure, pattern matching, Smart Contract); support for TON, BTC Teleport; new standards (pending TX ID, secure signature, multi-account generation).

Gold Finance reported that CertiK claimed that the security research team discovered a vulnerability in macOS Sonoma 14.5, which allows applications to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges. Apple has disclosed this vulnerability and users need to update to the latest version of macOS.

Odaily Planet Daily News Mixin Kernel posted on the X platform that in response to the attack on the 923 platform, the team officially launched the Mixin debt Token (MDT), including 3 types of debt: -MDTb: stands for BTC debt; -MDTe: stands for ETH debt; -MDTu: stands for USDT-ERC20 debt. The value of each debt Token is $1, and users need to use the migration bot to claim debt Tokens.

According to Scopescan's monitoring, Mixin Kernel-related addresses have just been transferred to the address "0x077a8" after being idle for a year, and are ready to pledge ETH2.

According to Scopescan, several addresses related to Mixin Kernel have just transferred 3,600 ETH ($7.12 million) to the address "0x077a8" after a year of dormancy, and are ready to stake ETH2.

Odaily Planet Daily News Recently, Apple released an updated version of the iOS17 operating system instructions, in which it expressed its gratitude to the Web3 security audit company CertiK. Blockchain security audit company CertiK has discovered three security vulnerabilities in Apple's iOS kernel, which will affect several Apple devices that previously used iOS17. According to information on Apple's official security update page, these vulnerabilities affect the kernel, GPU driver and ProRes driver and allow "an application... to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges." In the latest release, Apple has addressed these vulnerabilities by improving memory handling. As Web3 applications become more mainstream, the security of mobile devices when accessing these applications becomes even more critical. In August this year, CertiK discovered two security vulnerabilities in iOS 16.6 and successfully assisted Apple in improving the security of its system. CertiK has been accumulating power in Web3 mobile applications for a long time. As early as May this year, South Korea's Samsung Group thanked CertiK in an official report for fixing important vulnerabilities.

According to IT House news, OPPO Xiaobu Assistant recently announced the latest progress of the OPPO Andes GPT model, which has appeared on the September rankings of the SuperCLUE evaluation benchmark. According to reports, AndesGPT is a generative large language model independently trained by OPPO. In early August, it launched external invitation testing with OPPO’s intelligent assistant Xiaobu, aiming to upgrade the traditional voice assistant at the kernel level. In the SuperCLUE top ten basic ability rankings, AndesGPT scored 98.33 in the "Knowledge and Encyclopedia" ability test, ranking first in the country after GPT4. OPPO said that by introducing high-quality knowledge graphs, QA questions and answers, and optimizing pre-training and instruction fine-tuning technology, it has significantly improved the coverage and accuracy of AndesGPT's large language model knowledge and encyclopedia capabilities.

Golden Finance reported that according to Cyvers_s monitoring, approximately 1,500 transactions related to Mixin Kernel have been detected. The first transaction was at 07:47:11 on September 23, 2023, worth 19,000 ETH. Currently, two addresses, address 0x52E8 and address 0x3B5, hold ETH worth $117 million.

Golden Finance reported that according to Cyvers_s monitoring, the ML support system has detected approximately 1,500 transactions related to the Mixin Kernel. The first transaction was at 11:47:11 pm on September 22, 2023, worth 19,000 ETH. Two addresses, address 0x52E8 and address 0x3B5, currently hold $117 million.

On September 22, Apple released a new round of security patches to address three zero-day vulnerabilities that are being actively exploited and affect iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and Safari. The total number of zero-day vulnerabilities reaches 16. The list of security vulnerabilities is as follows: CVE-2023-41991, a certificate verification issue in the Security framework, could allow malicious applications to bypass signature verification. CVE-2023-41992, a security vulnerability in the Kernel, could allow a local attacker to escalate privileges. CVE-2023-41993, a vulnerability in WebKit, could lead to arbitrary code execution when processing specially crafted web content. Apple did not provide more details, only confirming that "this issue may be actively exploited in versions prior to iOS 16.7. Users are reminded to upgrade in time."

PANews reported on September 22 that according to The Hacker Wews, Apple has released another round of security patches to address three zero-day vulnerabilities that are being actively exploited and affect iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS and Safari. This brings the total number of zero-day vulnerabilities discovered in its software this year to 16. The list of security vulnerabilities is as follows: CVE-2023-41991, a certificate verification issue in the Security framework, could allow malicious applications to bypass signature verification. CVE-2023-41992, a security vulnerability in the Kernel, could allow a local attacker to escalate privileges. CVE-2023-41993, a vulnerability in WebKit, could lead to arbitrary code execution when processing specially crafted web content. Apple did not provide more details, only confirming that "this issue may be actively exploited in versions prior to iOS 16.7. Users are reminded to upgrade in time."

Odaily Planet Daily News According to the release notes of Apple's latest operating system update, blockchain security and code auditing organization CertiK has been officially recognized by Apple for helping to enhance Apple's system security. This security contribution involves two security vulnerabilities in Apple's iOS kernel. According to Apple's official security update page, the vulnerability could allow "an application ... to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges." In the latest release, Apple has addressed these vulnerabilities with improved memory handling.

PANews reported on August 9 that the blockchain security and code audit organization CertiK was officially recognized by Apple for discovering two security vulnerabilities in the Apple iOS system. These vulnerabilities have been confirmed to affect the latest iOS devices. Apple will These bugs were addressed in the latest version with improved memory handling. According to Apple's official security update page, the vulnerability could allow "an application ... to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges." In the latest release, Apple has addressed these vulnerabilities with improved memory handling.

Jinse Finance reported that Apple has released iOS 16.6 and recommends that all users update immediately. The iOS 16.6 update fixes 25 iPhone security vulnerabilities, two of which have been used in real-world attacks. The issues fixed in iOS 16.6 include 11 issues in the core kernel of the iPhone operating system and eight issues in WebKit, the engine that powers Apple's Safari browser. The kernel flaw fixed in iOS 16.6 is the third iOS issue discovered by security firm Kaspersky as part of a so-called triangle spyware attack that plants malware on people's iPhones without any user interaction.

On May 26th, Bitcoin Core 25.0 has been officially released. This version includes new features, various bug fixes and performance improvements, and updated translations. Bitcoin Core operators need to completely close the old version before upgrading. Bitcoin Core runs on operating systems using the Linux kernel, macOS 10.15+, and Windows 7 and later, along with most other Unix-like systems.