{"id":682927,"date":"2026-07-09T20:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T20:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/682927\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T20:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T20:02:09","slug":"microsofts-patch-tuesdays-are-about-to-get-bigger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/682927\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft\u2019s patch Tuesdays are about to get bigger"},"content":{"rendered":"

Windows 11 updates could soon include fixes for more security issues at once. Microsoft said in a blog post<\/a> on Thursday that it\u2019s now using AI to \u201cidentify potential issues earlier,\u201d which means \u201ccustomers will see a higher volume of security updates included in each security release.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hackers, even amateurs, have increasingly been using AI<\/a> to quickly exploit security weaknesses over the past several months. Security researchers are also using AI to find issues faster, leading to more frequent high-severity vulnerabilities, like the \u201cCopy Fail\u201d exploit<\/a> that impacted nearly every Linux distribution in May. Similarly, when Anthropic announced its Claude Mythos model<\/a> earlier this year, it claimed that Mythos had already found high-severity vulnerabilities in \u201cevery major operating system.\u201d<\/p>\n

Microsoft says it\u2019s updating its Secure Development Lifecycle to make sure it \u201cexplicitly accounts for potential AI-enabled attack techniques and exploit paths.\u201d It\u2019s also making investments to \u201censure that we are not compromising update quality as we gain speed,\u201d including integrating AI more throughout its security updates process. Additionally, Microsoft says it\u2019s \u201cinvesting in new technology including Windows-specific tools and agentic harnesses\u201d that will help generate and validate security fixes with AI, while \u201ckeeping humans in the loop when it comes to code review.\u201d<\/p>\n

Microsoft emphasized that while AI will now be more involved in identifying and resolving security issues, developers will still verify those findings and \u201cmake risk-based decisions\u201d about updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Windows 11 updates could soon include fixes for more security issues at once. Microsoft said in a blog…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[554,59,696,50,1351,227,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-682927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ai","tag-gb","tag-microsoft","tag-news","tag-security","tag-tech","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}