Redmond found a new way to make use of Copilot, a way to brick Microsoft Surface devices with a single packet under certain circumstances. They've been quietly pushing BIOS updates to fix…
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A single small line of code sent to the wrong place could turn a Laptop Surface into an unusable metal block. It was on this flaw that Microsoft discreetly worked for three months, before it was released on June 12. The story starts quite unlikely. Jack Darcy, an Australian security researcher, asked Microsoft Copilot (the integrated IA assistant on Windows) to adjust the backlighting of his screen, so nothing crazy. Well, Copilot alone writes a…