Under Satya Nadella:

Windows 10/11 garbage OSes

Azure growth completely stagnant for years

Xbox dead

Numerous acquisitions resulting in 10s of
thousands of layoffs and virtually nothing gained.

Copilot

Hey we got WSL though. That's pretty cool.

#microsoft #microslop #copilot

Many years ago I made this high-level observation about the difference between UNIX-like operating systems and Windows.

In the UNIX mental model, that CPU and RAM belongs to the end user. As an operating system, you want to be a good steward of those resources and make as much of it available to the user as possible. The OS should be very reluctant to include functionality that increases how much a system uses while "idle."

In the Windows mental model, the computer's resources are available to whatever Microsoft thinks they're useful for. It's good to leave some for the user, but Microsoft will take more if it thinks it is a good idea.

Apple is on this continuum, too, and I think they're more at the Windows end of the spectrum. They're definitely bumping elbows, if they're not sitting in the same chair. If Apple thinks something resource hungry like Spotlight is a good idea, they will bundle it.

What got me thinking about this was thinking about the resources it probably frees up to completely rip #Copilot out of #windows11

https://www.howtogeek.com/how-to-rip-out-copilot-from-windows-11/

@majorlinux

Maybe they used Cop pilot to update the UX.

If it's confusing enough, maybe you will ask cop pilot to open apps.

If #Microsoft hadn't fired #Clippy, but had instead placed him in a role where he could flourish, he would not have trained on all that data to become #copilot. Clippy is on a vengeance tour.

Business idea: it's a machine - you put in coins and pull a lever or press a button, then you randomly receive an amount of tokens for your coins. Those tokens can be exchanged for bullshit no one needs. I'll call it a slop machine. #ai #copilot

Vancouver School Board are planning to deploy Microsoft Copilot in classrooms.

We are collecting signatures to show VSB that we are concerned about the effect on our children, and do not consent.

If you are concerned about AI being used in classrooms, please sign and share this petition.

https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/voice-ai-concerns-to-vancouver-school-board

#ai #copilot #vancouver #noai #microsoft

Microsoft’s drive encryption technology: BitLocker.

Microsoft’s executive culture: BotLicker.

#Copilot

Microsoft Office ist jetzt Microslop KI-Pilot. Alles wird scheißifiziert.
Ach gäbs doch nur online Services von einem garantiert KI-freien Verein, dem ihr eh schon vertraut.

Wie z.B.:
Office: https://docs.fediverse.foundation
Termine/Umfragen: https://meet.fediverse.foundation
Pixelfed (wie Instagram): https://instapix.org
Lemmy (wie reddit): https://feddit.org
und natürlich Mastodon:
https://fedi.at
https://wien.rocks
https://tyrol.social
und mehr

#FediverseFoundation #DigitaleUnabhängigkeit #DUTGemacht #cryptpad #pixelfed #lemmy #feddit #mastodon #microsoft #MicroSlop #slop #copilot #ki #scheißifizierung

How to turn off Copilot and protect your data from Microsoft’s AI
via #Proton

#Privacy #copilot #microsoft #noAI
https://proton.me/blog/turn-off-copilot

"Yet, it turns out no one is buying Copilot."
#Microsoft #Copilot #AI #KI #Bubble

"But why is Copilot’s growth and/or sales so bad? Well, one study tested these ‘agentic’ AIs, including Copilot, and found that they flat out failed to complete even simple tasks 70% of the time, rendering them somewhere between useless and an active hindrance.
The same is true for Microsoft’s cash baby, ChatGPT."

No shit, sherlock?
https://www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/the-ai-industry-is-starting-to-unravel

(Danke, Mathias!)

#Copilot #MicroSlop
i loved Copilot of Duty

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Tweet by @IceSolst Microsoft is renaming all their products GitHub —> CopilotHub LinkedIn —> Copilot Unemployed Xbox —> XCopilot Teams —> CopilotSkype Azure —> CopilotCloud OneDrive —> CopilotDeleteurfiles Edge —> CopilotExplorer VSCode —> CopilotCursor Bing —> Copilot4cucks Defender —> CopilotNoViruses Intune —> CopilotMalware Windows —> CopilOS Authenticator —> CopiletMeln Bethesda —> CopilotSkyrim Activision —> Copilot of Duty Task Manager —> CopilotDavePlummerWroteTaksManager Powershell —> CopilotNotBash Hyper-V —> Copilotrash WSL —> Copilubuntu Copilot —> CopilotCopilot

🚨 BREAKING: Microsoft just renamed Office to "Microsoft 365 Copilot app"

All users are now "AI users"

And this will lead to higher prices: https://tuta.com/blog/microsoft-365-price-increase

#Microsoft #Copilot

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Screenshot from the new Microsoft 365 Copilot app: "The Microsoft 365 Copilot app (formerly Office) lets you create, share and collaborate all in one place with your favorite apps now including copilot."

@AAKL @cR0w

Apparently folks needed additional motivation to switch to #officelibre

Thanks #microslop !

#office365 #copilot

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #AISlop #NoAI #Microsoft #Copilot #MicrosoftOffice #LibreOffice #foss

Microsoft Office renamed to "Microsoft 365 Copilot app"

https://www.office.com/

#aislop #ai #copilot

Hey Guys, gals, people and pets, Satya Nadella is getting tired of people calling AI Slop output AI Slop. If everyone can stop that's be great as it is upsetting Microslops share holders.

Don't start calling Microslop Microslop or use the #microslop tag as it might burst the AI bubble and then Microslop might have to take SlopPilot out of Windows. As you know, that would be terrible.

https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence/microslop-trends-on-social-media-backlash-to-microsofts-on-going-ai-obsession-continues

#microslop #microsoft #copilot #sloppilot #AI #genAI #AISlop #AIBubble

*knocks at your front door*

Hi! Would you like to try Windows Copilot?

*pops out of your trunk*

Did you know the new Microsoft 360 includes Copilot?

*Breaks through your window at work*

Copilot can help organize your weekend plans!

*Emerges from your nightmares in the form of a white raven*

With a Copilot+ PC you can be more productive than ever!

#shitpost #ai #copilot #comedy #memes

Using Microsoft #Forms to collect survey responses from a group of people? Download the responses into an Excel file, then ask #Copilot to look at that file, and identify trends and outliers. You can also ask it questions about the data and have it help you get faster answers.

AI assistants 🤷‍♂️

#ai #copilot #gemini #chatgpt

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Drake meme: One image where he's totally rejecting Copilot, Gemini, and ChatGPT, and another where he's all smiles, giving a thumbs up to Bongo Cat

Microsoft rush to add AI to everything they have failed or ignored making existing products better.

As I am forced to use #O365 here is my wish list for enhancements.

1. The ability to schedule a follow up meeting from an existing meeting in Calendar without having to recreate the whole invite from scratch.

2. Add notes to emails. We have a shared mailbox and I would love the ability to add notes to a email for my colleagues or keep a note on the email for later reference.

3. Outlook client that has ZERO problems updating messages. My inbox is not even that full and the client hangs when updating folders and messages. It is the bane of my existence.

#microsoft #outlook #email #copilot

The powers that be have turned on Github Copilot for our account at work. It's worth every penny.

#AI #LLM #Copilot #Github

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Copilot is commenting on a shell script. The first line of the script is a standard shebang, i.e. `#!/usr/bin/env bash`. Specifically there are no spaces anywhere in that code other than between "env" and "bash". Copilot however, eager to prove that it's a good little LLM, has decided that it just has to comment. "There are extra leading spaces before the shebang line" it eagerly yells. "The shebang must be at the very beginning of the file with no preceding whitespace"

Someone close to me purchased a new computer just recently. His previous computer was Windows 10, which he liked. I warned him that Windows 11 was a different beast and he could expect a lot more spying, copilot in everything, less customization, and even ads in the start menu.

Apparently he agreed with me and he has started testing the Linux Mint Live Image today. He seems to like it. He said it was much easier to use than he expected and it is very fast.

It makes me smile that another person I know has found their way to Linux.

#GNULinux #GNU #Linux #LinuxMint #Microsoft #Windows #Windows10 #Windows11 #Privacy #noai #ai #Copilot

Bought 5 tickets for the PowerBall last night and decided to experiment this morning by asking both #Copilot (Consumer) and #ChatGPT to check my numbers. I gave them the same prompt - "Did any of these numbers win last night's PowerBall" accompanied by a photo of my ticket.

Copilot didn't correctly OCR the ticket getting several of the numbers wrong. ChatGPT accurately read the ticket. Sadly we didn't win.

Disappointing that Copilot wasn't able to accurately read the numbers, though.

win64 version 11 is in crisis.

Why do I talk about it? As an opensource user we are all affected negatively by LLM slop, think Mozilla

Coldfusion took a fantastic research view

#LLM #AI #Mozilla #thunderbird #firefox #POV #technology #Physics #programming #MicroSoft #coldfusion #copilot #slop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKjo8Oc2qLk

Why is #mailcow using #copilot to generate incredibly over-complicated code for simple things? 😥

#LG #webOS TVs are now installing #Microsoft #Copilot automatically with no option to remove it

https://videocardz.com/newz/lg-webos-tvs-are-now-installing-microsoft-copilot-automatically-with-no-option-to-remove-it

#privacy #AI #LLM #IoT #SmartTV #news #tech

I actually did come up with a helpful use for #AI while I was meeting with my boss.

I'm frequently annoyed when a coworker says a feature is impossible to build, when I know there must be a simple way to do it. Now I can ask #Copilot for a solution, and since it will never say something is impossible, I can just forward the response to my coworker and say "Uh, oh, artificial intelligence is going to steal your job if can't come up with a better plan than this!"

My boss is being forced to buy me a #copilot license, since she can't just say that someone on her team is not going to be following the same processes as everyone else, so now if I don't use #AI, #Microsoft can just pocket the subscription fee as profit, which is not acceptable.

I guess I will be spending a few hours each month crafting prompts like "rewrite all of the comments in this code as if you were a Muppet who is obsessed with eating cookies."

Your Smart TV is JUST AS BAD as Windows for spying on you.👈 🕵️

Taking images of what you watch, which may include passwords and more.

Now they are installing AI without asking. Have INSTALLED without aaking. Theres a path past this invasion.
That's the next post.

https://m.slashdot.org/story/450211

Post One of Two

#spy #ai #linux #LG #smartTV #box #microsoft #copilot

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Stories LG's Software Update Forces Microsoft Copilot Onto Smart TVs -- from the who-asked-for-this dept. LG smart TV owners discovered over the weekend that a recent webOS software update had quietly installed Microsoft Copilot on their devices, and the app cannot be uninstalled. [ HAVE ALREADY INSTALLED ] Affected users report the feature appears automatically after installing the . . .

https://www.techpowerup.com/344075/microsoft-copilot-ai-comes-to-lg-tvs-and-cant-be-deleted

Good thing I don't buy #LG

#copilot #ai

🚀 Oh, look! A brave #hero emerges to save us from the horrors of #AI... in Windows 11. 🙄 Because clearly, uninstalling #Copilot is the pinnacle of software engineering in 2023. 😜
https://github.com/zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI #Windows11 #SoftwareEngineering #TechHumor #HackerNews #ngated

The original story is From Bloomberg. While it's noteworthy that Microsoft's AI chief thinks his baby is impressive and superhuman, the real throwaway is the revelation that Suleyman unwinds after a day's work on AI by talking to his AI product. Completely normal. 🤔

Microsoft’s AI chief flags superintelligence risk, sets release bar https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/microsoft-s-msft-ai-chief-flags-superintelligence-risk-sets-release-bar/ar-AA1SeoG6 #Microsoft #Copilot

@distractal good questions.

I refuse to accept any "#AI"slop as a matter of principle and block any #Copilot on sight!

Das mythische "Jahr des Linux-Desktops" ist da. Danke, Microsoft! 🙌 Indem ihr Windows mit Werbung und KI-Nonsens flutet, treibt ihr viele zur Pinguin-Party. @vowe 's Bericht zeigt: Es tut gar nicht weh (außer man braucht Citrix). Endlich Ruhe vor dem PC. Wer hätte gedacht, dass Satya Nadella der größte Linux-Promoter wird? #linux #microsoft #copilot🔗 https://vowe.net/2025/12/10/linux-auf-dem-desktop/

Microsoft has resolved a Copilot outage that affected users in the U.K. and Europe following unexpected traffic growth, capacity-scaling faults, and a later-identified load-balancing issue.

The company reverted a recent policy change and manually scaled capacity to restore access.

What resiliency expectations should we have for cloud-delivered AI tools as they become core to daily workflows?

Share your thoughts and follow us for more balanced cybersecurity updates.

#InfoSec #Microsoft #Copilot #CloudOutage #AIOps #Microsoft365 #DigitalResilience #TechNews #IncidentResponse

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Microsoft investigates Copilot outage affecting users in Europe

M365 News Roundup for December 2025

Plus an update on a previous newsletter

#M365 #Copilot #Anthropic #Teams #AI #Purview

https://newsletter.mikemcbride365.com/p/m365-news-roundup-for-december-2025

@jon And yet, I'm still having 100% of clients who request anything to do with #CoPilot or #Recall request I uninstall both and block CoPilot in their web browser too.

If people will not pay to use a feature, but will pay not to have the feature, then it isn't a feature.

#AI

AI Coding Tools Like Copilot and Amazon Q Face 30+ Security Vulnerabilities https://www.webpronews.com/ai-coding-tools-like-copilot-and-amazon-q-face-30-security-vulnerabilities/ #cybersecurity #AI #codingtools #CoPilot #AmazonQ #Replit #vulnerabilities #securityholes

Agents and Bots in Teams, Oh My!

As new features roll out, things are taking shape in eDiscovery terms, kind of.

#M365 #Copilot #eDiscovery #Teams

https://newsletter.mikemcbride365.com/p/agents-and-bots-in-teams-oh-my

Microsoft 365 #Copilot does a lot of good things, but one noticeable gap right now is in creating appointments on your #calendar. I think Microsoft will get it there, but it's not quite there yet.

#Outlook

Accidentally pushed one prominent, unmarked button on my #github app, and now I get this unwanted email.

If I wanted to use #Copilot, I would have by now.

#annoying

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Welcome to GitHub Copilot email notice.

What the fuck am I supposed to do with a #CoPilot button? #genAI trash enforced by #Microsoft...
Does anyone know of a safe way to get the icon off of an MSI Venture laptop keyboard?
Or maybe a way to pull the key off and replace it?

Evolution of the trash icon over the years

(just slightly modified from @catsalad 's https://infosec.exchange/@catsalad/115613773775837129)

#Copilot #genAI

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Screenshot of an image entitled "The evolution of the trash icon" showing a list of the different trash icons that existed under Windows (I think) from years 1995 - 2015. The last icon (2025) has been replaced (oops) by a Copilot Icon

Was there any impact on eDiscovery from Ignite 25?

There were a lot of announcements. How much do eDiscovery professionals need to worry about?

#M365 #Copilot #eDiscovery

https://newsletter.mikemcbride365.com/p/was-there-any-impact-to-ediscovery

Trying to transform an #AI-generated picture of a female paladin WoW toon. Fully clothed/SFW. Nevertheless, #Copilot keeps telling me my requested adjustments are out of Responsible AI guidelines.

I’m guessing because the transform request is ”taller, thinner, more athletic” - #MSFT won’t let me bodyshame AI slop.

This is silly dumb.

My first column for Attorney at Work has dropped and it's about using #Copilot to triage your #email. I'll start working on the next one right after the Thanksgiving holiday. #legaltech #AI #Productivity

https://www.attorneyatwork.com/microsoft-copilot-for-email-management/

It's going to be interesting to see how this impacts the way you use #Copilot in #Excel.

Agent Mode in Excel (Frontier) https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/agent-mode-in-excel-frontier-a2fd6fe4-97ac-416b-b89a-22f4d1357c7a

@Erpel because the spammers are assholes?

• I wished @Codeberg had some #AI #bot / #blocklist feature to flatout block #spammers and #bots cuz given the fact that #GitHub refuses to allow blocking #Copilot, this may be the straw to move the projects over there if I can't be assed to #SelfHost and merely abude GitHub as a #CDN!

• Which I certainly would intent…

I saw an interesting article yesterday that said #Microsoft was finally admitting that some program of theirs was so bloated and #slow to start that it was harming the user experience, so they were considering pre-loading it at boot (or #login) time so #users wouldn't see the huge delay when they went to open it.

(Of course, that would slow down booting or login...)

But that program is ... Windows File Explorer.

So let me get this straight - a glorified file picker and directory navigator is so #bloated and slow it can't start up instantly? And thousands of engineers can't figure out how to make it fast or efficient?

Maybe they should ask #CoPilot to speed it up.

#FileExplorer #WindowsFileExplorer #treacle

And this is the point where you drop Windows forever. Windows Latest first reported this story yesterday.

Windows Latest: Windows 11 will allow AI apps to access your personal files or folders using File Explorer integration https://www.windowslatest.com/2025/11/19/windows-11-will-allow-ai-apps-to-access-your-personal-files-or-folders-using-file-explorer-integration/

PC World: Window 11 pilots File Explorer access for AI apps like Claude https://www.pcworld.com/article/2979652/window-11-pilots-file-explorer-access-for-ai-apps-like-claude.html #Microsoft #Windows11 #Copilot #Claude

“The wise man is he who knows when and how to stop” - Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

"Microsoft is busy adding Copilot seemingly everywhere it can think of, including developer tooling for upgrading .NET Framework projects to .Net Core."

The Register: Copilot .Net modernization tool a ‘huge downgrade,’ devs say – and no longer free https://devclass.com/2025/11/20/copilot-net-modernization-tool-a-huge-downgrade-devs-say-and-no-longer-free/ @theregister #Microsoft #Copilot #GitHub #VisualStudio

Do all the 'just use Linux' people understand that a lot of us have work laptops, provided by our employers, which we cannot tinker with extensively even if we were capable and wanting to??

'Just use Linux' is not a fucking solution to everything
Stop
#linux #windows #genAI #noAI #copilot

For anyone running Windows 11 for any reason, if you don't want Windows Recall installed and running by default, and you have admin control over your computer, download and run ShutUp10++ right now.

Last night I was trying to work out a bug in a Steam game under Linux, so for a baseline I installed Windows 11 Enterprise (you know, the one that isn't supposed to have any of the "AI" and secret snooping stuff like Recall in it by default) onto a spare drive. Immediately on first boot, I downloaded and ran ShutUp10++ as I always do on a fresh install of Windows. I noticed a new (to me) tab next to the "Current User" and Local Machine" tabs labeled "Copilot". This tab informed me that not only was Copilot installed on this brand new, fresh, first time booted installation of Windows 11 Enterprise -- NOT Home or Pro -- but that Recall was also enabled and running. Of course I chose the option to disable and remove Recall and Copilot as any sensible person would.

At work this morning I checked a couple of my workstations running Windows 11 and found they too had Recall turned on (which I had previously disabled company-wide via Group Policy) so apparently some update or another reverted changes that it shouldn't have. This is absolutely unwanted and dangerous; like every business we have computers that handle sensitive data, including detailed customer information that should never be screenshot and sent to any third party, even Microsoft. Recall is the worst intentional security violation in the history of computers and technology, and should be banned from any corporation or business. The fact they now have it installed and turned on with a fresh installation, let alone can turn it back on at will, violating a company's wishes as set via Group Policy, is fucking maddening.

The moral of the story: Microsoft WILL spy on you, and if you try to turn off spying, they WILL turn it back on in a subsequent update. Tools like ShutUp10++ are necessary even in corporate/enterprise environments to properly wrangle Microsoft's incessant need to slurp all of our data and feed it to their "AI" Jabberwocky.

#Microsoft #Recall #Copilot #enshittification

Three interesting announcements around Microsoft #Copilot.

Microsoft’s Office apps are getting even more free AI features https://www.theverge.com/news/822789/microsoft-copilot-chat-outlook-word-excel-powerpoint?utm_source=chatgpt.com

@leyrer How about "Only insert the mandatory feature if you understand the security implications."?

#microsoft #copilot #windows11

How to turn off #Copilot and protect your data from #Microsoft’s #AI

https://proton.me/blog/turn-off-copilot

#privacy

@dangillmor The two most common requests I get from clients as of about August this year:

1. Divert a perfectly functional PC from becoming e-waste by replacing Windows 10 with Linux.
2. Uninstall, disable, or block #CoPilot, #Recall, and all other #AI misfeatures in Windows 11 and on common websites.

People literally pay to not have Microsoft's slopware. It's not merely worthless; it's of negative value.

Microsoft Copilot could be your organization’s most powerful accidental insider threat.
GenAI boosts productivity - but broad access to mislabeled data means new exposure risks.
https://www.technadu.com/why-microsoft-copilot-may-be-your-most-risky-insider-threat/612964/

#Copilot #CyberSecurity #DataGovernance #AIsecurity #InsiderThreat

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Why Microsoft Copilot May Be Your Most Risky Insider Threat

I actually loled

this is just too funny

#ai #copilot #aislop #shitposting #shitpost

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PolyAssets, a YouTuber focused on making animation related to Uranium, asks Microsoft Copilot about “food names that ends with um” and it replied with Uranium

#Microsoft posted a video showing Microsoft 365 #Copilot doing some cool and useful things with a proposal document and a statement of work and in both cases they showed uploading the document to Copilot.

I couldn't help but think...shouldn't those documents be in your SharePoint? Why not just use the CIQ? 🤔

I'm okay to drive or ride a car that was built with the help of power tools or even by a robotic assembly line. It doesn't have to be 100% hand made to be safe.

#keepassxc #copilot

I heard a #Copilot commercial on a #LegalTech podcast yesterday. Not that surprising, except...it was a commercial for the CONSUMER version of Copilot. No wonder lawyers are confused - they're hearing ads talking about features their version of Copilot doesn't have. 🤦‍♂️

I usually use either #ChatGPT (for everyday tasks) or #Claude (for coding), but I found #GitHub #Copilot extremely useful when a CI job fails. There is a button that opens a menu, and one of the items is "Explain the error". It spawns a chat with a premade prompt, so no need to frentically sift through logs, first finding the failing job with a screen reader, then trying to find the error in question. It can be done of course, but afterwards, if Copilot's explanations are not good enough. #AI #AITip #Accessibility

I went to a presentation at work today about things one can do with copilot. The presenter used real examples mostly involving asking copilot to tell him how to automate common tasks -- like e-mailing people based on the contents of a spreadsheet. All tasks that could have been automated years ago with macros or Power Automate, &c.

My first thought was "there's nothing new here," as I dreamed up several ways I could have automated these tasks ages ago, no copilot required. But that's the thing. People have been plugging away at data entry roles and other office tedium that simply have not needed to exist since the late 90s. It is not that AI can suddenly automate tasks that couldn't have been before, they've been automate-able for a long time but the people doing them had no idea _how_.

Would it have been better had the presenter learned how to write his own macros? I would argue yes. But the copilot answer was better than continuing with pointlessly manual
tasks.

#copilot #automation

Wanna play the classic Infocom game, "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" using AI?

Here you go!
https://copilot.microsoft.com/shares/kRpX6dLPmpbofBrbUhJ7b

(p.s. Microsoft owns the Infocom IP by way of the Activision acquisition I believe, so... 😁)
#Copilot #Microsoft #Infocom #hitchhikersguidetothegalaxy #AI

Tenable flagged this yesterday:

"A prompt injection vulnerability exists in Github Copilot Chat version 0.28.0. We have verified this vulnerability is present when installed on macOS Sequoia 15.5 with Visual Studio Code 1.101.2 and Github Copilot Chat version 0.28.0 in Agent mode using Claude Sonnet 4."

"A solution will not be released. The vendor believes this should be mitigated by the 'Workspace Trust' feature and therefore is not a security issue."

Github Copilot Chat Prompt Injection via Filename https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2025-53 @tenable #GitHub #cybersecurity #infosec #macOS #Copilot #Microsoft #VisualStudio #Claude

M365 News Roundup for November 2025

It happened again, a new button as I was doing a demo. Changes are coming fast and furious.

#M365 #Microsoft #Copilot #Security #Teams

https://newsletter.mikemcbride365.com/p/m365-news-roundup-for-november-2025

Ugh.. Just noticed some new #Copilot settings appearing in #Github, and one of them was giving it access to all repositories 😡 just like.. by default

This is in Settings > Copilot > coding agent

I have already set copilot "visibility" as "Disabled" but is that fully disabling copilot? How can we be sure? How hard is it to just ask the user's permission and follow what they say ?!

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Screenshot of the Github Copilot Settings page showing the different options for access to MY repositories. I ticked back "No repositories" but it was set to "All repositories"!

#Microsoft is clearly becoming desperate due to low adoption rates of #Copilot.

Apparently, Microsoft is now pushing Copilot to all #Microsoft365 personal subscribers and calling it a "subscription price increase". Only when you decide to cancel your subscription are you presented with the option to switch to "Microsoft 365 Personal Classic" without Copilot (and nearly the old price). The classic plan is not presented as an option unless you try to cancel your subscription.

This is a classic scammy trick: Modify the existing plan and add the feature no one wants and hide the old plan from view. Presto, now you have an insane adoption rate you can present to investors as a great success.

I personally don't use Microsoft subscription services, so I don't know if they tried this bullshit in the EU, but if they did, they're asking for trouble. They got sued in Australia over this already: https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/microsoft-in-court-for-allegedly-misleading-millions-of-australians-over-microsoft-365-subscriptions "Microsoft in court for allegedly misleading millions of Australians over Microsoft 365 subscriptions"

Y'ALL KNOW #COPILOT IS BULLSHIT, RIGHT?

you do not invest 13 BILLION IN EQUITY nor gift some scripty kids another $2 billion, give or take, so you can have your own separate and much inferior #AI product, right?!?!?!

"#Microsoft Discloses Equity Investment in #OpenAI for First Time: Filing"
https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-hints-big-change-to-openai-investments-sec-filing-2024-10

CoPilot is to #ChatGPT what #Bluesky is to #Xitter and it should be damn obvious #techbros been doing shit like this to skirt regulations, not so much in the US but EU.

Pretty good review of some of the new capabilities of Microsoft 365 #Copilot. And a good caution about using Claude within Copilot, make sure to review Anthropic's privacy policy before you enable it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoUNo0FN48I

New (to me) Meeting Transcript Artifacts

An accidental discovery during recent Copilot meeting testing

#M365 #Copilot #Teams #eDiscovery

https://newsletter.mikemcbride365.com/p/new-to-me-meeting-transcript-artifacts

The release notes for #VisualStudio 17.14.19 mention a single bug: that #Copilot Language Server is recognised as a threat by McAfee Antivirus. Well now…

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2022/release-notes?tabs=allfeatures#17.14.19

#AI #Microsoft

@davidgerard

Thanks David.
Great help.

Or uninstall the os. If you can.

#ai #aislop #copilot #copilotSlop

To be clear, this is for consumer #Copilot not Microsoft 365 Copilot.

Microsoft adds Copilot voice activation on Windows 11 PCs https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-adds-hey-copilot-wake-word-to-windows-11-pcs/

Trying to move away from the #Microsoft suite (#Word, #Powerpoint, #Excel), mostly because of their forcing of #Copilot on users.
It seems that the choice is between #LibreOffice or #OpenOffice - which one would you recommend that is most compatible with MS formats, has similar functionalities (but with #NoAI ) and is good for collaboration (e.g. can do tracked changes)?

(Best if it works with #Zotero)

New phishing technique - CoPhish - weaponizes Microsoft Copilot Studio to steal Entra ID OAuth tokens.
Attackers build malicious AI agents hosted on legitimate Microsoft domains, exfiltrating tokens via “Login” flows that appear genuine.
Uses OAuth T1528 techniques + token forwarding through Microsoft IPs for stealth.
🛡️ Detection ideas:
- Monitor consent grants in Entra ID logs.
- Restrict unverified app registrations.
- Disable user app creation.
- Flag Copilot bots using trial tenants or untrusted domains.

How are you tuning detections for AI-driven OAuth phishing?
💬 Share your strategies & follow @technadu for more technical threat intel.

#OAuth #Phishing #Microsoft #Copilot #CloudSecurity #ThreatHunting #AIsecurity #EntraID #MITREATtack #InfoSec #TechNadu

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New CoPhish Attack Exploits Copilot Studio to Exfiltrate OAuth Tokens

I knew that little galvanized steel fucker wasn't dead

https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-copilot/microsofts-new-copilot-has-a-secret-it-can-turn-into-clippy-if-you-know-how

#Clippy #Copilot

AI Has an 81% Error Rate for Summarizing News Content – Study

A study examining the ability for AI to summarize news content has found that there were problems with 81% of the responses.

https://www.freezenet.ca/ai-has-an-81-error-rate-for-summarizing-news-content-study/

#News #Technology #AI #ChatGPT #Copilot #fail #Gemini #Google #Microsoft #OpenAI #Perplexity

it's teletubbies all the way down?

#teletubbies #copilot #why #SunBaby

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the copilot mico blob in the sky with clouds underneath, immediately making me think of the teletubbies sun baby

#Copilot.

These willful business stupids think they're creating a silicon god

If not malware, why Copilot shaped?

Obliterate your Windows 11. It's the year of Linux desktop.

https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/115423795585082197

#Copilot #Windows11 #Linux

Have you tried the Facilitator agent in a meeting yet?
I tried it. I liked it. I had eDiscovery questions about it.
#M365 #Copilot #eDiscovery
https://newsletter.mikemcbride365.com/p/have-you-tried-the-facilitator-agent

GitHub Changelog made me feel like the platform is just AI with its function happen to support Git now ​​

#github #git #copilot #aislop

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Latest from our changelog Yesterday Claude Haiku 4.5 is generally available in all supported IDEs 4 days ago Copilot knowledge bases can now be converted to Copilot Spaces 5 days ago Copilot CLI: Multiline input, new MCP enhancements, and Haiku 4.5 5 days ago GPT-4.1 Copilot code completion model — October update View changelog →

Microsoft lets bosses spot teams that are dodging Copilot

Microsoft has repeatedly insisted that the tool is a boon for productivity, even if some customers are not so sure.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/10/microsoft_copilot_viva_insights/

#Microsoft #Copilot #AI #enshittification #surveillance #technology

when you made pinkie pie your #copilot

#funny #humor

Alright, I finally gave the Facilitator feature of #Copilot a spin today. It is pretty damn cool and does a decent job of replacing a dedicated note-taker in meetings. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/facilitator-teams

#Teams #MicrosoftTeams #AI

Found a new Copilot switch

Go to Windows Settings, Privacy and Security and the all the way down to "Text and image generation". There is a switch for turning off Copilot in Notepad and Photos.

https://vowe.net/2025/10/17/found-a-new-copilot-switch/

#copilot #windows

I wonder if Microsoft is just going to fully rebrand their OS to Copilot. That seems plausible.

#microsoft #copilot #ai

Some great tips and tricks here on how to use #Copilot more effectively. #productivity #AI https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/business/copilot-tips-tricks/#Prompting+Microsoft_365_Copilot+Cross-industry

#Copilot in #Excel is a hidden gem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4gOi_ijVks

@gadi At which amount can one classify a shitty #Software as #Malware?

• I mean, in my eyes, #Copilot, #ClaudeCode, #Cursor, #Windsurf, etc. are all malicious tools that are explicitly not just banned, but a fire-able offense as in "offenders can be glad if they get to clean their desks and being politely shown the door with security breathing down their neck" and not "getting arrested & handcuffed at their desk by the police for corporate espionage"...

Security theater. In fact I think "security" is really about control, and nowadays when I encounter a security challenge I think of it in terms of who is trying to control my behavior and to what ends. I think it's clear by now that many internet "security" controls, at least those deployed by large tech companies, are not good faith efforts to protect users; that's a secondary concern.

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #Copilot #Gemini #tech #dev #web #internet #SecurityTheater #cybersecurity #infosec #security

I think I understand now why "Microsoft 365 Copilot" is a different offering to (just) "Copilot".
M365 Copilot is actually pretty good for doing AI-powered chatbot tasks with your documents already in the MS ecosystem, such as those in your OneDrive/SharePoint. Regular Copilot seems to be more for general purpose tasks while M365 is more for working with the stuff in your Office workspace.
Terribly named sibling products, but it starts to make sense in practice.
#AI #Copilot

They're at least honest, but jeez people. "Also called YOLO mode."

I don't know how this chat crap ended up enabled in #vscodium because I've been trying to disable it as it comes in. But this takes the biscuit.

This is extremely dangerous and is never recommended

If this is literally never recommended (which seems like the right approach) why the fuck is it even in here!?

This is Chat -> Tools -> Global -> Auto Approve.
#microsoft #copilot #vscode

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Screenshot from the chat preferences of VSCodium. It says it applies to all profiles. The tick box, which is not ticked, is described as follows: Global auto approve, also known as YOLO mode, disables manual approval completely for all tools in all workspaces, allowing the agent to act fully autonomously. This is extremely dangerous and is never recommended (paco's note: so why the fuck is it in here?). Even containerised environments like code spaces and dev containers have user keys forwarded into the container that could be compromised. This feature disables critical security protections and makes it much easier for an attacker to compromise the machine.

Not so tragic friendly fire incident.

#microsoft #copilot

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Microsoft 365 Copilot spam quarantined by Microsoft 365 spam filter.

@TonyRedmond If it was my decision, I'd fire everyone who uses #Copilot at #work, because it's a #violation of #DataProtectionStandards (no use of #Office365 / #Microsoft365 is allowed or even licensed/procured!) and violation of #ITsec standards (using unsanctioned #SaaS), and if it's not my decision, it'll be the #CISO|s to do so with #HR in a call, if not would get said offenders jailed for #CorporateEspionage!

Suk..tænk lige over ordet "delt" her? "Hele setuppet er bygget ind i en Microsoft-løsning, hvor der er en databehandleraftale. Det vil sige, at DR’s indhold ikke bliver delt med andre" #copilot #openai
"https://journalisten.dk/nyt-vaerktoej-med-myretuehukommelse-skal-hjaelpe-drs-journalister/

🔥 Microsoft 365 Copilot's commercial failure

“Today we’re introducing Office Agent, a multi-agent system that builds upon an open-source stack, Anthropic's Claude model, and a new taste-driven development (TDD) paradigm to deliver polished PowerPoint presentations, ready-to-use Word documents, and soon Excel spreadsheets.”

https://www.perspectives.plus/p/microsoft-365-copilot-commercial-failure

#copilot #ai #bubble

Mike Tholfsen shares a great video with a tour of some of the handy new features of #Copilot. Well worth a watch. #AI #Productivity

https://youtu.be/JbOJliF-Cn4?si=-Ew8LdhAbrNVI8G4