highly unlikely for many of them. SharePoint, bitlocker, Active directory, hyper-v, rdp, DHCP and MSMQ are all software/technologies that have decades of history and long pre-dated LLMs. seriously, do people not realise it was entirely possible to write insecure or bad code before LLMs?
The distinction I'd draw is between AI-assisted and AI-generated. Using AI to write isolated functions you understand and review is different from prompting your way to a complete system you can't debug. The second case is where you get surprising failures at runtime that no amount of linting catches.
It is hard to tell, the code may genuinely be decent quality or not.
That is the issue with vibe coding. Increased output but reduced understanding. So if something does go wrong, one has to hope that there is still enough understanding to address it quickly.
For what it's worth, at my workplace AI has uncovered quite a few issues that have been there for a decade or two and survived countless rounds of careful reviews, external security analysis, pen testing and so forth for all those years.
99.9% of people complaining about AI making the world a worse place would be fully happy with AI if they shared in the economic benefits of automation.
I don't see why AI would deskill what you love to do. People still do embroidery even though mass manufacturing exists. If you love something you would continue doing it irrespective of automation.
For a lot of people it’s not the job that is rewarding it the role having a job gives them in life and home life. Financially contributing to the household through earning it through work is a meaningful and rewarding thing that can define the near total of how good you feel about yourself thing even if you don’t like the job?
What would be the point of any of this if the registry is still there? It'd just a particularly shit version of linux window management that happens to run games well
There used to be a brilliant weather app here in Oz back in the early days of iOS. I always loved the update notes the author provided. One was "Fixed one grammatical error and introduced another one, can you find it?"
It would be nice if microsoft had windows update for .net, visual c++, office, windows, edge ... just all their software in one updater, but that would be too easy...
Isn't that... Windows Update? At least last time I looked it would update .net runtimes, Office, what else? OK, Visual Studio has its own update mechanism. Edge is part of the OS, isn't it?
it's still an opt-in setting though. Windows and OS-components like drivers and Edge do get auto updated yes, but to enable Microsoft Update, you still need to turn on a setting in the Settings app.
even setting up a new PC/laptop with windows, this is off by default.
It did work that way for .NET versions but the patches and upgrades caused too many bugs and incompatibility. Folks would install old .net versions anyway.
The pattern moved to packaging in all your dependencies.
Winget/Microsoft Store etc could auto-update your apps even with packaged .NET DLLs, though.
Title is not correct. Microsoft didn't patch a lot of this, they're reporting patches for dependencies that other people patched and Microsoft are inheriting.
For example, Mariner (now branded Azure Linux) is a Microsoft-supported Linux distribution. So in this list of 570 vulnerabilities, Microsoft have reported 100 vulnerabilities inherited from all sorts of open source software projects included in their Azure Linux distribution. The OpenSSH vulnerabilities are described in better detail at https://www.openssh.org/releasenotes.html where it implies 2 vulnerabilities were detected with Swival Security Scanner (using LLMs) and another 6 by other researchers/companies (using undisclosed methods).
As an example of one of the OpenSSH vulnerabilites CVE-2026-59996 which is attributed to Swival Security Scanner, Swival have published the output of their automated vulnerability detection report at https://github.com/Swival/security-audits/blob/main/openssh/...
Sounds like a lot but compare it to Edge also being patched for 428 Chromium CVEs this month.
If 20 years ago you told me a single piece of software had 428 vulnerabilities I wouldn't have believed it.
If Chromium has that many security bugs, perhaps the move fast and break things approach of spraying diarrhea masquerading as code into a keyboard — in a rush to add new features no one asked for — needs to be reexamined.
Chromium is probably 30 million+ lines of code, and we generally see that as things get more complex its even easier to accidentally write code which can be exploited.
If it has 1 vulnerability in every 10k loc of code we'd be talking about 3,000 vulns (with no churn) - we used to care about defect density, and most software wouldn't go more than a few hundred lines without SOME bug, whether that's a "vulnerability" is often a layered question.
20 years ago a malformed packet to winsock would crash the computer, 5 years later installing win2k on my buddies computer (no router/firewall) a few minutes after we finished the install "windows will reboot in nn seconds" whelp time to re-install without a network connection... we've added a lot of layers since win2k, mostly in the name of ease of development, and I don't feel like we've met that goal but we sure found a way to get a million monkies behind a million typwriters, and now we're aiming to replace the monkies with simulated monkies. Time to smell my fingers and fall out of the tree ;-D
20 years ago software wasn't as much battle tested as today, had way less feature set, was less connected to the internet, and etc. 428 CVEs looks small, assuming not all have CVSS 9.8 or something.
> If 20 years ago you told me a single piece of software had 428 vulnerabilities I wouldn't have believed it.
For something as complex as an operating system or a web browser, even one from 20 years ago (say, Windows XP or IE/Firefox) I wouldn't have believed there were 428 vulnerabilities either, I would have assumed there were much more than that.
Even if it had the Microsoft logo attached? Windows was always known to not be the most secure of products. I can't imagine anything else from the same company would be any better
An employee just got phished by adding a number to a legitimate deviceAdd login route that bypasses 2FA and adds a device with full access to office and mail
Sounds like one of ADOs recent security misconfiguration vulnerability announcements. The customer is blamed, for not quite hardening everything the right way, when ADO config is... A sizeable task.
It seems like bug hunting might be the one area where AI is actually making the world a better place.
How many were introduced by misuse of AI coding/vibe coding though?
highly unlikely for many of them. SharePoint, bitlocker, Active directory, hyper-v, rdp, DHCP and MSMQ are all software/technologies that have decades of history and long pre-dated LLMs. seriously, do people not realise it was entirely possible to write insecure or bad code before LLMs?
It’s like people don’t remember the whole outsourcing trend and all the awful code that came from that.
Sure, that's true.
It is also true that Copilot is currently in use developing Bitlocker and Sharepoint. So I wouldn't be confident saying it was one or the other.
> seriously, do people not realise it was entirely possible to write insecure or bad code before LLMs?
Some of these threads make me think every line of code written pre-LLMs was apparently perfect in all ways. Feels like romanticizing the past.
Especially if they made heavy use of offshoring, which I would bet they did.
The distinction I'd draw is between AI-assisted and AI-generated. Using AI to write isolated functions you understand and review is different from prompting your way to a complete system you can't debug. The second case is where you get surprising failures at runtime that no amount of linting catches.
It is hard to tell, the code may genuinely be decent quality or not.
That is the issue with vibe coding. Increased output but reduced understanding. So if something does go wrong, one has to hope that there is still enough understanding to address it quickly.
For what it's worth, at my workplace AI has uncovered quite a few issues that have been there for a decade or two and survived countless rounds of careful reviews, external security analysis, pen testing and so forth for all those years.
How many were known, and put on the roadmap because war got hot?
At Microslop? Evidently, lots.
99.9% of people complaining about AI making the world a worse place would be fully happy with AI if they shared in the economic benefits of automation.
Not if it ends up deskilling society and taking away what brings us meaning in life.
I don't see why AI would deskill what you love to do. People still do embroidery even though mass manufacturing exists. If you love something you would continue doing it irrespective of automation.
But do people make a living doing embroidery by hand? Or is it more of a hobby?
For a lot of people it’s not the job that is rewarding it the role having a job gives them in life and home life. Financially contributing to the household through earning it through work is a meaningful and rewarding thing that can define the near total of how good you feel about yourself thing even if you don’t like the job?
Yes. I love eating pieces of string. I'm partial to wool myself, really filling.
I suppose you're a cake enjoyer, miss Marie Antoinette?
for your first couple of B you stop complaining about anything
I've been benefitting from automation my entire life. I don't see why anything would change when that automation is driven by language models.
This is great. Now ask Mythos to make windows suck less and let it go crazy.
Deletes Windows 11
Installs Windows 7 with new patches
What would be the point of any of this if the registry is still there? It'd just a particularly shit version of linux window management that happens to run games well
Installs Windows 3.11 with no new patches
If you want an easy way to view these I made https://wofa.dev to keep track of windows updates and security patches in a single place
It is time to abandon Microsoft.
Full July 2026 Summary: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/microsoft-patch-tuesday-rep...
They should patch that Global Device ID thing
:^)
How many are chained, and how many patches are defense-in-depth after discovering chained paths to that flaw?
I wonder how many bugs will be introduced with these fixes...
Fix one and add two.
There used to be a brilliant weather app here in Oz back in the early days of iOS. I always loved the update notes the author provided. One was "Fixed one grammatical error and introduced another one, can you find it?"
They don't introduce bugs. They introduce feature experiences.
Emergent product roadmap in action.
No bugs, only intentional backdoors
It would be nice if microsoft had windows update for .net, visual c++, office, windows, edge ... just all their software in one updater, but that would be too easy...
Isn't that... Windows Update? At least last time I looked it would update .net runtimes, Office, what else? OK, Visual Studio has its own update mechanism. Edge is part of the OS, isn't it?
it's still an opt-in setting though. Windows and OS-components like drivers and Edge do get auto updated yes, but to enable Microsoft Update, you still need to turn on a setting in the Settings app. even setting up a new PC/laptop with windows, this is off by default.
e.g. visual c++ isnt included tho
It did work that way for .NET versions but the patches and upgrades caused too many bugs and incompatibility. Folks would install old .net versions anyway.
The pattern moved to packaging in all your dependencies.
Winget/Microsoft Store etc could auto-update your apps even with packaged .NET DLLs, though.
You mean…service packs?
No, "Microsoft Update" is what it was once called (see e.g. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/update/...)
Title is not correct. Microsoft didn't patch a lot of this, they're reporting patches for dependencies that other people patched and Microsoft are inheriting.
For example, Mariner (now branded Azure Linux) is a Microsoft-supported Linux distribution. So in this list of 570 vulnerabilities, Microsoft have reported 100 vulnerabilities inherited from all sorts of open source software projects included in their Azure Linux distribution. The OpenSSH vulnerabilities are described in better detail at https://www.openssh.org/releasenotes.html where it implies 2 vulnerabilities were detected with Swival Security Scanner (using LLMs) and another 6 by other researchers/companies (using undisclosed methods).
As an example of one of the OpenSSH vulnerabilites CVE-2026-59996 which is attributed to Swival Security Scanner, Swival have published the output of their automated vulnerability detection report at https://github.com/Swival/security-audits/blob/main/openssh/...
They did patch a lot of cves in dotnet:
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/dotnet-and-dotnet-fram...
Releases without cve patches used to be quite common, max ive seen before were 3
Sounds like a lot but compare it to Edge also being patched for 428 Chromium CVEs this month.
If 20 years ago you told me a single piece of software had 428 vulnerabilities I wouldn't have believed it.
If Chromium has that many security bugs, perhaps the move fast and break things approach of spraying diarrhea masquerading as code into a keyboard — in a rush to add new features no one asked for — needs to be reexamined.
Chromium is probably 30 million+ lines of code, and we generally see that as things get more complex its even easier to accidentally write code which can be exploited.
If it has 1 vulnerability in every 10k loc of code we'd be talking about 3,000 vulns (with no churn) - we used to care about defect density, and most software wouldn't go more than a few hundred lines without SOME bug, whether that's a "vulnerability" is often a layered question.
20 years ago a malformed packet to winsock would crash the computer, 5 years later installing win2k on my buddies computer (no router/firewall) a few minutes after we finished the install "windows will reboot in nn seconds" whelp time to re-install without a network connection... we've added a lot of layers since win2k, mostly in the name of ease of development, and I don't feel like we've met that goal but we sure found a way to get a million monkies behind a million typwriters, and now we're aiming to replace the monkies with simulated monkies. Time to smell my fingers and fall out of the tree ;-D
20 years ago software wasn't as much battle tested as today, had way less feature set, was less connected to the internet, and etc. 428 CVEs looks small, assuming not all have CVSS 9.8 or something.
It was more tested as real testers were testing it. Nowadays, AI just checks the code.
I guess we should find some of this old source code and test it for exploits to see what is true.
https://github.com/microsoft/ms-dos
> If 20 years ago you told me a single piece of software had 428 vulnerabilities I wouldn't have believed it.
For something as complex as an operating system or a web browser, even one from 20 years ago (say, Windows XP or IE/Firefox) I wouldn't have believed there were 428 vulnerabilities either, I would have assumed there were much more than that.
>features no one asked for
Google asked for them. That's all that matters.
Even if it had the Microsoft logo attached? Windows was always known to not be the most secure of products. I can't imagine anything else from the same company would be any better
"Microsoft attributed the burgeoning patch counts to vulnerability discoveries aided by artificial intelligence."
If only real intelligence found the fucking things instead.
As ye sew, so shall ye reap!
An employee just got phished by adding a number to a legitimate deviceAdd login route that bypasses 2FA and adds a device with full access to office and mail
Probably working as intended...
Sounds like one of ADOs recent security misconfiguration vulnerability announcements. The customer is blamed, for not quite hardening everything the right way, when ADO config is... A sizeable task.
I always click NO to these, that's full human error. edit: The underlying issue is that they send a 2FA before asking for a password at all.