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Bit of a dilemma: out of curiosity, I assigned a minor issue in SurfaceCast to Copilot, and somewhat to my surprise, it actually produced a sensible and well-explained PR. 🤔
Now, do I just merge this and help MS make their AI counter go brrrr? Feels like a waste to throw the patch away and reimplement it myself...
Microsoft 365 Copilot just got smarter. Employees can use two new agents to build custom apps and automate workflows. Microsoft has also unveiled a lightweight version of Copilot Studio. #Microsoft #AI #Copilot
https://theaieconomy.substack.com/p/microsoft-365-copilot-apps-workflows-update
⚠️ Microsoft 365 Copilot – Arbitrary Data Exfiltration Via Mermaid Diagrams – Adam Logue
｢ When Microsoft 365 Copilot (M365 Copilot) was asked to summarize a specially crafted Microsoft Office document, an indirect prompt injection payload triggered the execution of arbitrary instructions to fetch sensitive tenant data, such as “recent emails” and hex encode the fetched output ｣
found on bsky found on tumblr
i checked mine and yep. check yours.
EDIT: hi FOSS evangelists, we're already on fucking Mastodon. This is like walking up to someone in church who's wearing a white collar and asking if they've heard of Jesus.
Thanks David.
Great help.
Or uninstall the os. If you can.
@f_beaudet The ACCC is actually taking them to court over this.
So if you're a Microsoft Office subscriber and you just got a notice that the price went up.
Know that the price didn't really go up. What is happening is that they are now charging you for Copilot.
You can opt-out by cancelling your subscription. When you do, they will offer a Office365 "classic" option which is at the previous price and doesn't include Copilot.
@f_beaudet The ACCC is actually taking them to court over this.
Federal agencies face a persistent bottleneck: Infrastructure code (usually in the form of Terraform files) is typically developed for functionality first, then retrofitted for security compliance during the Authority to Operate (ATO) process.
This reactive approach can create delays, rework, and inconsistencies across projects—often adding months to deployment timelines What if infrastructure code was NIST-compliant from the start?
If you subscribe to #Microsoft365 and they just sent you email telling you they're raising your subscription fee, click the " #Microsoft account" link in the email, log in, and tell it that you want to cancel your subscription. It will then offer to let you switch back to your current, cheaper subscription, without the included #Copilot #AI crap, which you probably don't want to pay for and shouldn't be using anyway.
h/t https://cosocial.ca/@f_beaudet/115428785470087164
If you subscribe to #Microsoft365 and they just sent you email telling you they're raising your subscription fee, click the " #Microsoft account" link in the email, log in, and tell it that you want to cancel your subscription. It will then offer to let you switch back to your current, cheaper subscription, without the included #Copilot #AI crap, which you probably don't want to pay for and shouldn't be using anyway.
h/t https://cosocial.ca/@f_beaudet/115428785470087164
There's no place in this timeline where "understand" doesn't imply training.
The lies getting more brazen by the minute.
I am a programmer, not a rubber-stamp that approves Copilot generated code / Prahlad Yeri
｢ By forcing LLM usage upon programmers for implementation of every tiny little thing, are they trying to make us dependent on LLMs to such extent that programmers will be reduced to mere approvers of LLM generated code in the new scheme of things; mere rubber stamps, if you will, who just label the commits and annotate the tags as a formality? ｣
https://prahladyeri.github.io/blog/2025/10/i-am-a-programmer.html
I just used #Copilot to help design a training session for a client. Did it just design the whole training session for me while I played video games? No. I gave it a session title and a 3-paragraph description of what I wanted to cover. It gave me a draft outline. I asked for some revisions to the outline and it revised it. I copied the outline to OneNote and made more revisions myself.
Might have taken me an hour or so in the past. Took 20-30 minutes with Copilot.
@albertcardona ahaa yeah every time I have to log in a new Windows computer at work I am reminded of all the annoying things I progressively had to tick off or uninstall on my own Windows. It's very frustrating. Also, why do they force us to log in to our personal account now, instead of just having a shared account??
Fortunately once you set it up properly it's mostly OK. At least that used to be true for Win10.. The only thing I can't seem to get rid of is the $#@!#% #Copilot which Keeps Coming Back.
That's why I'm giving another try to #Linux now - installed #ZorinOS yesterday and it looks good and feels faster (but I haven't got the WiFi to work.. yet)!
✏️ #GitHub #Copilot and Unhonored Branch Protection
> GitHub Copilot commits directly to `main` and ruins my night.
https://mikezornek.com/posts/2025/10/github-copilot-and-unhonored-branch-protection/
I went to use a visual studio extension today that helped upgrade older versions to newer ones, it was free, worked offline, and did a great job of converting projects while providing a helpful report of what was changed and other notes about the process. A recent update to visual studio has completely disabled this functionality and added a "Modernize" option that only works with a paid Copilot subscription. Terrible enshittification of a product, but while reading about a possible workaround, I found a nuclear take with one of the worst analogies I've ever seen anyone try to make:
https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/Error-Message-when-loading-VS-20206-afte/10971375#T-N10974933
#VisualStudio #VisualStudio2022 #Microsoft #Copilot #DotNet #enshittification
🙄 Microsoft adds Copilot adoption benchmarks to Viva Insights
｢ Microsoft is adding Copilot adoption benchmarks to Viva Insights, a tool that lets managers monitor teams to spot those that are gulping down the AI Kool-Aid fastest. Viva Insights is Microsoft's vaguely creepy monitoring tool, designed to slurp data from employee activities, verfiying how their teams stack up against everyone else in their own organization and at other corporations ｣
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/10/microsoft_copilot_viva_insights/
🙄 Microsoft adds Copilot adoption benchmarks to Viva Insights
｢ Microsoft is adding Copilot adoption benchmarks to Viva Insights, a tool that lets managers monitor teams to spot those that are gulping down the AI Kool-Aid fastest. Viva Insights is Microsoft's vaguely creepy monitoring tool, designed to slurp data from employee activities, verfiying how their teams stack up against everyone else in their own organization and at other corporations ｣
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/10/microsoft_copilot_viva_insights/
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