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Christine Lemmer-Webber"Over 1.5 million GitHub pull requests have had ads injected into them by Microsoft Copilot's coding agent" https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-copilot-is-now-injecting-ads-into-pull-requests-on-github-gitlab/
Microsoft rolled it back and used the most weasel'y wording language imagineable to say they did so https://twitter.com/martinwoodward/status/2038612131084464521
> We've disabled it already. Basically it was giving product tips which was kinda ok on Copilot originated PR's but then when we added the ability to have Copilot work on _any_ PR by mentioning it the behaviour became icky. Disabled product tips entirely thanks to the feedback.
"product tips" lmao
AI6YR Ben"Green-card holders no longer qualify for loans from the Small Business Administration, eliminating a longtime source of financing for immigrants that advocates say will discourage job creation and harm the economy."
TaggartWhen we fight, we win
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/30/github_copilot_ads_pull_requests
Emeritus Prof Christopher MayThis looks like becoming a defining photo for the Court of the Tangerine Tyrant's attack on democracy
Mastodon MigrationHow About Some AI With Your Bluesky?
A tale of two social networks.
Last week some enterprising Mastodon account was discovered to be scraping posts to feed to an AI for the purpose of helping people navigate the Fediverse. The response was swift. The alarm went out. The account was widely blocked and shunned.
Yesterday to great fanfare #Bluesky announced, as a new corporate feature, all posts would be scraped and an AI would now help users navigate the ATmosphere.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/28/bluesky-leans-into-ai-with-attie-an-app-for-building-custom-feeds/
NiléaneRE: https://nileane.fr/@nileane/116291641538524981
The Verge is doubling down and it's a good one to read and share 👌
https://www.theverge.com/report/901818/hbo-harry-potter-jk-rowling-transphobia
Especially to your cis folks who are still somehow arguing that it's possible to watch something that’s directly funding a worldwide fascist crusade against trans people without being a part of the problem.
rebordacaoJust a little push...
Hand-embroidered pieces available in my etsy shop:
https://rebordacaoembroidery.etsy.com
GrapheneOSIt doesn't stop there. It would require keeping data for auditing and providing a token for connecting age verification checks by apps and websites to the data. The law is a privacy disaster and exposes minors to being exploited by leaking their age bracket to apps and websites.
Brazil's authoritarian age verification law became active this month. It won't be implemented by GrapheneOS. Complying would require integrating a mandatory process for each user where a third party service checks government identification and confirms a match using the camera.