Ten Blue Links, "have you tried turning Microsoft off and on again?" edition

Well, what a week. Let's get into it.1. Too big to careThis was the week when the world found out that "the cloud" means "the global economy's single point of failure". Microsoft 365 was down for about a day in more than 70 countries, taking out Outlook, Teams and Copilot.Cory Doctorow has been pointing out that putting so many eggs in a single basket has been a terrible mistake for longer than some of you will have been using the internet. And when that basket is a convicted monopolist that spent over $30bn on buybacks and cut staff, then couldn't keep its servers up, it's probably time for Microsoft to be broken up -- as it should have been years ago.Of course, Microsoft has raced to say that it was nothing to do with AI, but what it means by that is that AI-created code didn't fail. And it's most likely right! While a lot of people oppose AI coding, most of the programmers I've spoken to like it. When used well, it lets you code faster and – importantly – find bugs faster.But when…

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