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Microsoft confirms an AI worm is propagating through Copilot and other MS apps | CSO Online
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this post was submitted on 31 Jul 2026
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I just can't anymore. Isn't that like, the basic thing any program does? Who runs these companies?
It is - and tons of bugs are just about fucking it up or just not doing it at all. Incomplete or faulty parsing and validation of untrusted input is absurdly common. It got better in the past decades, but most software developers write worse code than AI by now (not me though; obviously, I am still better than the best AI).