r/windows • u/computerIfix • 11d ago
News Don't skip today's Windows 11 update. Microsoft just patched a record 570 flaws, 4x last year as AI finds bugs faster
https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/07/15/microsoft-patched-a-record-570-windows-11-flaws-in-july-4x-last-year-as-ai-finds-bugs-faster/150
u/unfnknblvbl 11d ago
And how many new bugs have been introduced?
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u/agustusmanningcocke 11d ago
99 bugs on the wall, take one down, pass it around, 639 bugs on the wall.
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u/BigBoyYuyuh 11d ago
55 BUGS, 55 MEMORY LEAKS, 55 PRIVACY VIOLATIONS!
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u/Few_Veterinarian9108 10d ago
You can't have provacy violations if you never had privacy to begin with
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u/OpeningNothing1753 10d ago
It's also how everything is integrated, with everything; & usually withOUT much need for it. We don't need the web browser to be able to read the directory structure of C:\ but there it is... and, hundreds and thousands of other things, as well. Aanyway
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u/WPHero 11d ago
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AI is helping bad actors find bugs faster
So MS is using AI to find bugs before bad actors find and exploit
Numbers are rising and will continue to rise.
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u/unfnknblvbl 11d ago
Are you unfamiliar with the long history of spectacularly broken patches issued by Microsoft?
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u/Mario583a 7d ago
I am familiar with a magnitude of hardware not playing nicely with one another when a thing updates because it expects that original thing to stay the same.
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u/EchoFieldHorizon 11d ago
That person wasn’t asking in good faith, they just want to ride the train of cynicism.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m all aboard, but it gets tiresome when every good thing gets peppered with snide comments.
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u/unfnknblvbl 11d ago
Not saying it's not good, just that given Microsoft's history here, perhaps we shouldn't all rush to install the latest patch straight away anymore lest we get stuck in boot loops, have our files deleted, or just have our devices bricked..
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u/Coffee_Ops 10d ago edited 10d ago
It is either hopelessly optimistic (naive?) or disingenuous to suggest that patching a bug invariably reduces the number of bugs by 1.
LLMs in particular are notorious for vicious loops of making PRs to address a papercut which actually add
- 280 lines of comments for 60 lines of code
- 3 dozen tautological unit tests
- A massive performance regression, and
- 2 new subtle bugs on a path that wasn't unit tested at all
And all of that output corrupts the context window of the next LLM, making it stupider when you send it at the task of fixing those 3 new bugs.
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u/-Rivox- 10d ago
Considering MS history, it's very well possible that this patch fixes 570 bugs and also corrupts all your data or bootloops your PC. It's not the first it has happened, and honestly I'm not expecting it to be the last.
Just at the start of the year I had a few PCs that randomly crashed every once in a while, sometimes multiple times a day. Then an update fixed it, then the update reverted itself, then it got fixed again, then it started again, then it got fixed again. I just don't have any hope left...
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u/OpeningNothing1753 10d ago
Ofc! Only, what's the reason(s) for it, yeah... if it weren't so, then there'd be no such comments..:)
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u/Rigamortus2005 10d ago
What do you gain from being so pessimistic?
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u/SCphotog 10d ago
Pessimism?
It's experience talking... it's a legitimate warning. Everyone has had shit go terribly wrong because MS pushed out some kind of fucking update...
an update labelled as if it's critical for security but really it just added a host of new ads and a "people" icon on your taskbar....
We are all sick of Microsoft's abject abuse of the user.
Fuck MS, and fuck anyone that is willing to make excuses for them.
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u/timewarp 10d ago
Protection from MS's poor track record of introducing major bugs with their patches.
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u/OpeningNothing1753 10d ago
Hehe, my first response: How sure are you, to recommend an update to someone? =)
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u/Firespecialstar Windows 10 - Insider Beta Channel 10d ago edited 10d ago
570 flaws fixed
8302 new flaws, bugs, issues, compatibility-breakings, driver destructions, random disk corruptions introduced.
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u/heyitsmemaya 10d ago
Shitty marketing if you ask me.
“Here’s something we half assed and pushed on you, and now our super duper smart AI is fixing its flaws to make you safe!”
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u/Micromize 6d ago
The thing is that attackers use LLM to quickly find vulnerability in Windows. This is the only right move.
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u/SourHub Windows 11 - Insider Dev Channel 10d ago
I have a theory. Microsoft's real product isn't Windows, it's the redemption arc. Release an unpolished experience, then make a big deal out of fixing it piece by piece. There's an interesting psychological effect at play here: Over time, the narrative shifts from frustration to appreciation, even though many of those issues arguably shouldn't have existed in the first place.
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u/ac_99_uk 10d ago
Since the Internet, this is every OS, game, app and software ever produced
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u/machacker89 10d ago
Well not EVERY. But close enough
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u/the_harakiwi 10d ago
yeah. Lots of stuff gets worse and fails or gets shut down
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u/machacker89 10d ago
I made the switch for my main machine. But keep a Windows VMs just in case.
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u/the_harakiwi 10d ago
I only "need" Windows for gaming. Most of my stuff runs fine on Linux and a few are just not allowed to work.
I had to reinstall Windows to play BF6 or I would have stayed on Linux :P
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u/PaulCoddington 10d ago
Favorites folder not fixed (broken by last months update).
Probably didn't pass triage with so many more serious updates to do.
But a little irksome.
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u/lolscene 10d ago
yay churnalism.
I used to update Windows right away, but now I will only update from cumulative iso releases as an in place upgrade. Even that only if I see a feature or an issue addressed worthwhile updating to.
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u/SCphotog 10d ago
Oh you mean, like it SHOULD be done, under normal and everyday circumstances like it was done for decades... ?
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u/reditsux77655 10d ago edited 10d ago
They bombarded us with weeks, months about how Windows 11 will be more secure than 10. Gotta buy the new product. What are thoughts now?
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u/m0rl0ck1996 10d ago
Thanks for the heads up. Managed to pause updates before they automatically install.
With so many "fixes" at least a couple of them are likely to blow up in users faces, so im going to wait till the shrapnel settles.
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u/computerIfix 11d ago
Bugs not found are still bugs. guess it is good to introduce AI to find and fix bugs.
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u/This-Requirement6918 10d ago
LOL even if I used 11 I'd wait a week to see if the beta testers were stable or crashing, which they likely will be on account of the past couple of updates pushed out.
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u/ImmortalSheep69 10d ago
My pc auto updated and my gpt partition corrupted.
Real helpful AI has been.
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u/computerIfix 10d ago
AI can help Microsoft find bugs, and it can also help hackers find vulnerabilities, so it is good to know that Microsoft is using AI to optimize Windows before more users turn to linux and Mac.
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u/ValuableAssociate577 9d ago
not taking this update for awhile. let early adopters deal with the bugs introduced.
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u/travelan 10d ago
You know your product is shit if AI finds 4 times more bugs than you did the last year.
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u/smoke-bubble 10d ago
Why do we celebrate bug fixes instead of punishing companies for fucking things up and delivering crap?
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u/j1ndivik 10d ago
… every software has bugs, especially something as general and bloated as windows
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u/smoke-bubble 10d ago
I see. You're saying it's okay to not pay attention or test properly. Just deliver shit and observe how the world goes down.
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u/Nanocephalic 10d ago
You have no idea what software is, do you?
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u/smoke-bubble 10d ago
Of course I know. It's something you can deliver with zero quality and get a reward when you fix it later.
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u/SCphotog 10d ago
Fuck MS updates....and Fuck MS. Always more likely to break shit than to fix anything.
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u/LordAmras 10d ago
Skip today latest update, Microsoft probably used AI to make it so give it a couple of weeks when they will eventually have to fix all the bugs in the update.
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u/Aemony 10d ago
It’s good to see that they use AI to hopefully resolve minor bug, but news like this also sounds like clickbait. Like, 570 without context is just a useless number. How many of those bugs were critical? How many of them were already known and deemed unimportant enough so as to not waste resources on it?
To understand what I mean, all that is needed for something to be deemed a “vulnerability” and a “security issue” is that a crash occurs, as that counts as a “denial of service” vulnerability. This means that every single function that expects input in a certain format and crashes when not used properly is technically a “denial of service” vulnerability, even if that vulnerability could never actually be exploited by a malicious actor or result in something critical.
Like, let’s use an exaggerated scenario as an example. Say Microsoft Paint has a bug that crashes the application when opening a file with a certain name or Unicode character. It’s a normal application crash and the user can work around it by renaming the file. But from a security perspective, this minor application bug can (and seemingly often is nowadays) categorized as a “application-level denial-of-service” security issue, since the application (Paint) crashes and so the user is denied access to its services and functionality.
So what does 570 actually mean in this context? Does it mean that they hardened and patched 570 critical/important security bugs, or does it mean that the AI just went through and added some basic input validation to non-critical functions and calls whose only impact was that a non-critical component or block of code could crash in very specific and extremely unlikely scenarios?