Harry Sintonen

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...aand it's gone "GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash" https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/30/github_copilot_ads_pull_requests

...for now, at least. No doubt there will be something else equally stupid in its place.

GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash

: Letting Copilot alter others' PRs was the wrong judgment call, says product manager

The Register
"Microsoft Copilot is now injecting ads into pull requests on GitHub" https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-copilot-is-now-injecting-ads-into-pull-requests-on-github-gitlab/
Claude is limiting usage more aggressively during peak hours — here’s what changed

It’s all about managing peak times

TechRadar

If you're annoyed by the #copilot changing your commit messages and inserting ads: This was inevitable. It has been clear for a long time now that the AI business is unsustainable in its current form. There has to be ROI, or the investors will vote with their money.

In other news: Many commercial models are struggling massively during peak hours, and more limitations and throttling will be introduced.

I would only recommend that anyone using these systems acquires and maintains the actual skills to do their work without them.

Interesting to see Copilot injecting ads into PR descriptions. Although there are a handful of older instances of this, if GitHub search is working properly, it looks like this started happening at scale around 10 days ago with more than 1k injections of this particular ad per day since then (if you search for other ad strings, you can find the rate of other ads)

https://github.com/search?q=%22%E2%9A%A1+Quickly+spin+up+copilot+coding+tasks+from+anywhere+on+your+macOS+or+Windows+machine+with+Raycast%22&type=pullrequests&s=created&o=asc&p=1

What will they think of next?

Hesari iski kätensä lämpimään AI-työkalun kanssa ja julkaisi olemattomia uutisia venäjän drooneista.

https://www.hs.fi/paakirjoitukset/art-2000011912865.html

Toivottavasti tämä toimisi (taas) jonkinlaisena muistutuksena siitä, ettei AI-työkaluissa ole oikeaa älyä, eikä niihin tule luottaa sokeasti.

#journalismi #helsinginsanomat

Helsingin Sanomat julkaisi virheellistä tietoa drooneista – Taustalla tekoäly­virhe

HS julkaisi sunnuntaina Kouvolan drooneista virheellisen tiedon, jonka taustalla oli tekoälytyökalu, kirjoittaa HS:n vastaava päätoimittaja Erja Yläjärvi.

Helsingin Sanomat

One of the crashed drones has been identified as Antonov An-196 Liutyi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liutyi

The drone was intercepted by an Air Force F/A-18 Hornet fighter, but wasn't fired upon to avoid collateral damage.

Liutyi - Wikipedia

Finnish news outlets now confirm that two drones have crashed in Finland.

The incident occurred 15 km from the Utti Air Base. The Utti Jaeger Regiment is home to the Special Forces and the helicopter operations of the Finnish Defence Forces.

Two Ukrainian drones crash in southeastern Finland, air force confirms.

"Drones have strayed into Finnish territory. We take this very seriously" - Defence Minister Antti Häkkänen

source: https://yle.fi/a/74-20217941 (in english)

Edit: Reporting confirms that two Ukrainian drones have crashed in Finland.

Drones crash in southeastern Finland, ministry confirms

"Drones have strayed into Finnish territory. We take this very seriously," Defence Minister Antti Häkkänen (NCP) said.

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