A Microsoft 365 outage that began with Exchange Online spread across Teams, OneDrive, SharePoint, Copilot, Purview, Defender XDR and administrative tools. Microsoft traced the disruption to an authentication configuration error affecting shared infrastructure.
Linux kernel maintainers are being overwhelmed by automated and AI-generated bug reports, many of them duplicates or poorly validated. The problem has become serious enough that maintainers are using frontier AI models to help triage the reports and considering whether rarely used legacy code should simply be removed.
An AV-Comparatives test using 250 live phishing sites found major browsers blocking approximately 75 to 79 per cent. Several dedicated security products blocked between 94 and 96 per cent, demonstrating why browser protection alone may not be enough.
Amazon is also pouring money into AI and cloud infrastructure while reducing corporate employment. At the same time, US Government Accountability Office data shows a growing number of Amazon employees receiving SNAP food assistance during 2025.
Jim Love covers these stories on Hashtag Trending for Wednesday, September 2, 2026.
00:00 Today's tech headlines 00:26 Microsoft 365 outage spreads 01:41 How shared authentication widened the outage 02:07 AI bug reports overwhelm Linux maintainers 03:40 Linux uses AI to triage AI reports 04:22 Browser phishing protection tested 05:30 What IT teams should do next 06:27 Amazon's AI spending and labour divide 08:40 Wrap-up and where to reach us
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