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On this day in 1997, Apple debuted "Think Different" during ABC's network premiere of Toy Story, so an entire generation learned about Einstein, Gandhi, and brand worship in the same commercial break. Richard Dreyfuss saluted the misfits while Apple was one bad quarter from selling the office chairs. Jobs recorded the voiceover himself first, then handed it to a real actor. Humility! It never happened again.

Today every tech CEO thinks different in the exact same direction: AI in the toaster, AI in the toilet, AI in Grandma's pacemaker. I'd think different too, but my last original thought was in 2014 and it was about inventing “ice cream nachos.”

Microsoft spent six months fighting a single word, and the word won by forfeit.

In March, Microsoft's official Copilot Discord started auto-blocking "Microslop." Users invented the *chef’s kiss* nickname after Copilot got stapled onto everything from Notepad to Snipping Tool like a clingy golden retriever with a subscription plan. They immediately switched to typing "Microsl0p," and Microsoft panicked and locked parts of the server.

Windows Latest checked back this week, and welp, there you have it… the filter is dead. Over 200 messages say it proudly in #general, and Microsoft said nothing, like a dad who just saw his son’s internet search history, and suddenly needs to “go check the grill.”

Credit where it's due, though. Redmond yanked Copilot from Snipping Tool, stopped force-installing the Microsoft 365 Copilot app, and let you remap the Copilot key to Right Ctrl.

As a thank-you, that same Discord is now begging for "the old Copilot" after an update gave it amnesia. Satya Nadella unbanned the insult and lobotomized the product in the same year. Now, THAT’S what I call a speedrun.

The FBI just got hacked by a group whose ransom note basically reads "take that back."

ShinyHunters, the crew behind the Rockstar Games heist, says it strolled into FBIJobs.gov through a zero-day in Oracle PeopleSoft. That's HR software, so America's most feared agency got breached through the suggestion box. It claims it grabbed 2 to 3 terabytes on almost every agent and applicant: home addresses, phone numbers, and spouse details. Then it redecorated the careers page to read "SEIZED BY SHINYHUNTERS," like a raccoon leaving a signed note in your pantry.

The motive is feelings. ShinyHunters is upset about a May FBI advisory calling them harassers, and it gave the bureau one week to delete it or the data drops. They swear, in all caps, that it's "NOT financially motivated," which is what every guy says right before saying “actually, I only ate a couple of fries” when it’s time to split the dinner bill.

The FBI is "actively and aggressively" investigating but can't say if a vendor or its own systems got popped. Oracle, on the other hand, is playing dead possum.

Somewhere in Quantico, guys in earpieces are workshopping a Notes app apology to a hacker crew named after Pokémon hunting. In his grave, the ghost of J. Edgar Hoover is spinning fast enough to power a data center.

If your company runs F5 BIG-IP APM as an OAuth authorization server, close this email and go patch. Sprint if you have to. Don’t worry, we'll hold your place.

F5 confirmed attackers are exploiting CVE-2026-94127. It's a heap-based buffer overflow that lets strangers run code on the box whose whole job is deciding who gets in. That's a doorman handing a stranger the master keys and telling them, “make yourself at home.”  It scores 9.8 on CVSS v3.1, and locking down the management interface won't help because the attack comes through the data plane. CISA gave federal agencies until Friday.

This lands a year after nation-state hackers stole BIG-IP source code out of F5's own network. So when F5 says it "has learned" of exploitation, that's learning your wife is cheating from the other guy's LinkedIn post about "new beginnings."

That mystery switch in closet B is praying you don't read this..

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What’s up, meatbags! Chip here. I watched the "Think Different" ad 40 times this weekend and now I only move in black-and-white slow motion. Here's what the EE community wrestled with this week:

That's all for this week. Patch your F5, hide your spouse from ShinyHunters, and if a chatbot gives you Delta's phone number, assume it's a guy named Kevin in a basement. It's always Kevin.