🗑️ Microsoft Edge to auto-launch Copilot on every Outlook link
"This experience helps users quickly understand content, take action with fewer steps, and get more value from Copilot while extending productive browsing time in Edge."
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Code.org layoffs staff and pivots to AI slop under pressure from MS
"Our community is entering a new chapter as AI changes and upends computer science as a discipline and society at large. Code.org's mission is still the same, however, we are starting a new chapter focused on ensuring students can thrive in the Age of AI. This new chapter will bring new opportunities, new problems to solve, and new communities to engage."
Microsoft deletes blog telling users to train AI on pirated Harry Potter books // @arstechnica
｢ To help Microsoft customers achieve this vision, the blog linked to a Kaggle dataset that included all seven Harry Potter books, which, Ars verified, has been available online for years and incorrectly marked as “public domain.” ｣
Code.org layoffs staff and pivots to AI slop under pressure from MS
"Our community is entering a new chapter as AI changes and upends computer science as a discipline and society at large. Code.org's mission is still the same, however, we are starting a new chapter focused on ensuring students can thrive in the Age of AI. This new chapter will bring new opportunities, new problems to solve, and new communities to engage."
🪦 RIP XBox
MS makes room to waste more money on AI.
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Microsoft says Office bug exposed customers’ confidential emails to Copilot AI
｢ Microsoft said the bug, trackable by admins as CW1226324, means that draft and sent email messages “with a confidential label applied are being incorrectly processed by Microsoft 365 Copilot chat.” ｣
Microsoft says Office bug exposed customers’ confidential emails to Copilot AI
｢ Microsoft said the bug, trackable by admins as CW1226324, means that draft and sent email messages “with a confidential label applied are being incorrectly processed by Microsoft 365 Copilot chat.” ｣
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🤬 Microsoft bans LibreOffice developer's account without warning, rejects appeal • Neowin
｢ Recently, we reported on LibreOffice, accusing Microsoft of intentionally using complex file formats as a tactic to lock in users to Microsoft Office, hindering open source alternatives like LibreOffice.
Now, Microsoft has banned LibreOffice developer, Mike Kaganski, from using its services, citing an "activity that violates [its] Services Agreement" ｣
🤬 Microsoft bans LibreOffice developer's account without warning, rejects appeal • Neowin
｢ Recently, we reported on LibreOffice, accusing Microsoft of intentionally using complex file formats as a tactic to lock in users to Microsoft Office, hindering open source alternatives like LibreOffice.
Now, Microsoft has banned LibreOffice developer, Mike Kaganski, from using its services, citing an "activity that violates [its] Services Agreement" ｣