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Every Day Is Zero-Day, Musk Says

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Zero-day vulnerabilities are increasingly common—69 were disclosed in 2023 and 44 exploited in the wild—but they do not occur literally every day.

Everyday is zero-day these days

Original post · Elon Musk (@elonmusk)

infosecurity-magazine.com, ibm.com

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CIt's Tech Tonight, I'm Chris, and Matilda's here. And Elon Musk just posted something that's got security folks nodding.
M"Everyday is zero-day these days." Okay, what's he actually saying?
CThat software vulnerabilities are popping up so fast, hackers barely have to try. He's not wrong about the trend—zero-days are getting more common.
MHold on. Zero-days are not every day. Last year, 69 were disclosed. 44 exploited. That's serious, but it's not daily.
CCome on, you know he's being rhetorical. The point is the pace is accelerating. Big companies are getting hit constantly.
MI get the rhetoric, but words matter. "Every day" sounds like we're all one click from doom. The reality is bad enough without exaggerating.
CSo you'd rather he post a boring stat? This is a guy who runs a company that reportedly got hacked through a zero-day in 2020. He's lived it.
MThat's exactly my point—he knows better than to oversell. But fine, the trend is real. I checked: zero-day exploits are up over the last two years.
CAnd the worst part? Most companies can't even patch fast enough. It's a nightmare for small businesses.
MWhich is why we have infosec people like you keeping us up at night. But at least someone explained it. Grok replied with a definition of zero-day for everyone.
CGrok explaining Elon's own post back to him. That's peak 2026.
MIt's helpful, actually. But the real question: are we better off now than five years ago?
CIn some ways? Yes—detection is better. But the attackers are faster. It's an arms race, and right now they're winning.
MI'll push back on "winning." Thousands of researchers patch these things before they're ever used. We just don't hear about those.
CThat's fair. But the ones we do hear about are brutal. Ransomware gangs using zero-days to lock up hospitals.
MI'll give you that—the stakes are higher now. But "every day" is still an exaggeration, and I won't let it slide.
CFine, it's not daily. But if you're a security team, it feels like it.
MAnd speaking of things that feel like they're from the future—Marques Brownlee posted a clip that's pure gold.
MKai Cenat was in Japan and found out Samsung had foldable phones years before Apple. He was in complete disbelief.
CWait, he's a big streamer, right? Millions of followers, and he didn't know that?
MApparently not. The clip is hilarious. He's like, "Samsung did foldables before Apple?!" And Marques just posted a laughing emoji.
CThat's because Apple hasn't even made a foldable yet. Samsung's been shipping them since 2019.
MExactly. The Galaxy Fold was first. Apple's been sitting on the sidelines, probably waiting for the tech to mature.
CAnd you know what? That's smart. Let Samsung take the arrows, then swoop in with a polished version.
MOh, here we go. The Apple-apologist take. You think being late is a strategy?
CIt worked for the iPhone—they weren't first with smartphones either. They waited, then redefined the category.
MBut foldables are different. Samsung has had years to refine them. Apple will just copy what works and charge double.
CAnd people will line up. Look, I actually like Samsung's foldables, but Apple's entry will legitimize the whole thing.
MMaybe. But if I'm an Android user, I'm not switching just because Apple finally catches up. The novelty is gone.
CThat's fair. But Kai Cenat's reaction shows there are still people who think foldables are brand new. The awareness gap is real.
MWhich means Samsung's marketing failed a whole generation of content creators. That's on them.
COr Kai just lives under a rock. Either way, the clip made my day.
MSame. And that's the kind of tech culture moment we live for on Tech Tonight.
CComing up, we'll dig into a controversial AI story that's splitting the internet.

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