Microsoft is urging Windows 11 users to uninstall update KB5074109 after widespread bug reports.
Here's how to do it.
From performance drops to broken features, the patch is causing enough issues that the company is recommending a rollback. https://t.co/f96OKaZAgT
Concerning the Microsoft Outlook outage.
I am a senior engineer at Microsoft.
Wednesday I let an intern push to production.
On their third day.
Without a code review.
Because Copilot wrote it.
And Copilot doesn't make mistakes.
That's what the marketing said.
The intern asked Copilot to "make the emails go faster."
Just like that.
In plain English.
Copilot understood.
Copilot always understands.
Until it doesn't.
The code optimized the email queue.
It optimized it to zero.
Zero emails. Zero latency. Zero function.
Technically flawless.
365 million users. Zero messages.
The intern looked at me.
I looked at the dashboard.
The dashboard was green.
Green means healthy.
Healthy means we changed what healthy means.
At 2:30 PM ET, Outlook stopped outlooking.
SharePoint stopped sharing.
OneDrive stopped driving.
Defender stopped defending.
The intern asked if they should rollback.
I said "we don't rollback vibes."
Vibes are forward-only.
That's the philosophy.
I learned it from a podcast.
The podcast was sponsored by Copilot.
Someone on the SRE team tried to escalate.
Via Outlook.
The escalation is still pending.
In the queue.
With 365 million other emails.
Waiting to be optimized.
The root cause analysis began.
We asked Copilot to investigate.
Copilot investigated Copilot's code.
It found no issues.
Very thorough.
Very objective.
The investigation was AI-powered.
The bug was AI-powered.
The denial was AI-powered.
Synergy.
The intern's prompt was six words.
"Make the emails go faster please."
They added "please."
Polite.
Copilot appreciated that.
It generated 4,000 lines of code.
Nobody read them.
Reading is legacy thinking.
We vibe now.
Vibing means trusting the machine.
The machine trusts itself.
It's a closed loop.
Very efficient.
Someone asked why the error code was "451 4.3.2."
451 is Fahrenheit.
The temperature at which code burns.
That's not true.
But it felt true.
Around 4 PM.
The intern started crying.
Not because they broke Microsoft.
Because their badge still said "Contractor."
HR hadn't updated it.
HR uses Outlook.
The fix took 8 hours.
The postmortem took 8 minutes.
Postmortems are shorter than incidents now.
Efficiency.
Satya asked for a status update.
I sent it via Teams.
Teams was also having issues.
Unrelated, obviously.
The press asked for a statement.
We said "a recent change impacted multiple Microsoft 365 services."
Change means code.
Impact means destruction.
Services means everything.
But the sentence sounds calm.
Calm is the deliverable.
The intern asked if they'd be fired.
I said we don't fire for innovation.
Innovation means breaking things at scale.
They're getting promoted.
To Senior Vibe Engineer.
It's not a real title.
But neither was "prompt engineer" last year.
And now there's a conference.
I'm doing a panel at Ignite next month.
The topic is "Responsible AI: Lessons in Enterprise Deployment."
I haven't learned any lessons.
But I've learned to call them learnings.
Learnings is plural.
Plural sounds more valuable.
The intern is co-presenting.
Their slide is titled "Move Fast and Break Email."
It's going to kill.
The stock is up 3% today.
Markets don't care about outages.
Markets care about AI mentions.
We mentioned AI 47 times in the press release.
A new record.
Thank you for your patience during this experience.
Patience means you're locked into a 3-year enterprise agreement.
Experience means outage.
We're committed to continuous improvement.
Continuous means it will happen again.
Improvement means we'll have better press releases.
The intern just asked Copilot to "make the servers more reliable."
I should probably check on that.
But I have a meeting.
About AI governance.
The meeting is on Teams.
Teams is working now.
Mostly.
The vibe continues.
We're investigating a potential issue impacting multiple Microsoft 365 services, including Outlook, Microsoft Defender and Microsoft Purview. Further information can be found in the admin center under MO1221364.
🛑 WARNING: CVE-2025-20393 is rated 10.0, with no patch available.
Cisco confirmed active exploitation of an AsyncOS zero-day by a China-linked APT.
The flaw allows root-level command execution on affected email security appliances and enables attackers to establish persistence.
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🚨 EDWARD SNOWDEN’S CHILLING WARNING IS NOW UNFOLDING IN REAL TIME
What China built… is exactly what Western governments are quietly preparing for.
Snowden is crystal clear:
Every photo, every purchase, every message, every movement — all of it is being fed into algorithms that decide your future.
In China, AI “city brains” now track:
Where you live
Who you visit
How you dispose of your rubbish
Every step you take in public
Whether you “follow rules” or not
Break a rule?
A camera catches you from three angles.
Your score drops.
Your life collapses.
Snowden’s warning:
“If any of your activities differ from what the government wants, you won’t get on a train.
You won’t board a plane.
You won’t get a job.
An algorithm will decide your fate.
And what they are selling… is us.”
This is not a future threat.
It is happening now — in Shanghai, in Beijing… and creeping into the West through digital ID, AI policing, and “misinformation scoring.”
China built the prototype.
Our governments are importing the blueprint.
Stay informed.
Stay alert.
Do not let this system take root.
⚠️ Hackers Exploit OneDrive.exe Through DLL Sideloading to Execute Arbitrary Code
Read more: https://t.co/Y0Rj7LTTI6
A sophisticated attack technique that exploits Microsoft’s OneDrive application through DLL sideloading, allowing threat actors to execute malicious code while evading detection mechanisms.
The attack leverages a weaponized version.dll file to hijack legitimate Windows processes and maintain persistence on compromised systems.
DLL sideloading exploits Windows’ library-loading mechanism by tricking legitimate applications into loading malicious Dynamic Link Libraries instead of authentic ones.
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