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@Khrys C'est effarant!
Déjà, si l'IA y a accès ca veut dire que #Microsoft peut y avoir accès aussi (donc ne stockez pas de fichiers confidentiels sur Sharepoint) et en plus maintenant certains PC ont la fonction #recall , c'est une IA qui enregistre tout ce que tu fais en continu sur ton PC!

Comme on est en #europe on peut désinstaller ça, vous pouvez désinstaller l'app "Microsoft 365 #copilot " comme avec n'importe quelle appli, mais comme Copilot c'est aussi office (pourquoi?) vous devrez remplacer office par autre chose comme #libreoffice qui est gratuit et #opensource (et sans ia!)

theregister.com/2025/05/23/mic

“ It is difficult to see many of these updates as much more than additions for the sake of adding them. We doubt that users were clamoring for AI in Notepad in the same way that they might be demanding Microsoft stops shipping updates that bork the operating system.”

The Register · Microsoft dumps AI into Notepad as 'Copilot all the things' mania takes hold in RedmondBy Richard Speed

"This isn’t about tools or productivity or acceleration. It’s about the illusion of progress. Because if that programmer-if that thing, that CREATURE-walked into your stand-up in human form, typing half-correct garbage into your codebase while ignoring your architecture and disappearing during cleanup, you’d fire them before they could say "no blockers".

But slap Microsoft's marketing label on it and plug it into the IDE of every developer in the org? Now that’s innovation. Science. Progress. Profit.

A real copilot, on a commercial airline? They know the plane. The systems. They’ve done the simulations. They go through recertification. When they speak, it’s to enhance the pilot... Not to shotgun random advice into the cockpit and eject themselves mid-flight.

Copilot isn’t that. It’s just the ghost of a thousand blog posts and cocky stack-overflow posts whispering, "Hey, I saw this once. With my eyes. Which means it's good code. Let’s deploy it." Then vanishing when the app hits production and the landing gear won’t come down.

If you let that ghost fly the plane, you deserve the ball of flames you go up in."

deplet.ing/the-copilot-delusio

Blogmobly · The Copilot DelusionChapter 1: My Coworker, The Programmer A shell of a man—more of a parrot than a person. My boss, a true believer in the sacred rite of Pair Programming, chained myself and this "programmer"-colleague together like conjoined twins from different planets. We shared a keyboard, but not a
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@Viss @schrotthaufen I look forward to hearing @riskybusiness et al on the inevitable eventuality of unauthenticated arbitrary privileged remote code execution via prompt injection in Teams or Outlook. Who needs the socially engineer the human when you can "prompt engineer" #CoPilot?

Is anyone taking bets when that first goes from joke to proof of concept?

This week I was allowed to answer an online questionnaire about the #Microsoft AI #Copilot and gave my feedback. Once Copilot has been installed, and in most institutes and universities in #Finland it is pre-installed without asking the users, it can no longer be uninstalled. Sometimes it is so counterproductive that it really gets in the way when writing emails and interferes with writing without authorisation and slows down productivity. So my feedback was naturally not positive.

Brilliant! "A real #copilot, on a commercial airline? They know the plane. The systems. They’ve done the simulations. They go through recertification. When they speak, it’s to enhance the pilot...
Copilot isn’t that. It’s just the ghost of a thousand blog posts and cocky stack-overflow posts whispering, "Hey, I saw this once. With my eyes. Which means it's good code. Let’s deploy it." Then vanishing when the app hits production and the landing gear won’t come down."

deplet.ing/the-copilot-delusio

Blogmobly · The Copilot DelusionChapter 1: My Coworker, The Programmer A shell of a man—more of a parrot than a person. My boss, a true believer in the sacred rite of Pair Programming, chained myself and this "programmer"-colleague together like conjoined twins from different planets. We shared a keyboard, but not a

❝ But I just use AI for boilerplate!" you whimper, clutching your Co-Pilot subscription. Listen to yourself. If you’re writing the same boilerplate every day like some industrial-age cog monkey, automate it yourself. Write a library. Invent a macro. Reclaim some dignity. If AI’s doing your "boring parts", what exactly is left for you to do? Fidget with sliders? Paint by numbers while the inference works it's magic? ❞

I admit I have better things to do this morning than read this, but it's brilliantly funny and soooooo refreshingly on point: deplet.ing/the-copilot-delusio. #LLM #CoPilot #Programming

Blogmobly · The Copilot DelusionChapter 1: My Coworker, The Programmer A shell of a man—more of a parrot than a person. My boss, a true believer in the sacred rite of Pair Programming, chained myself and this "programmer"-colleague together like conjoined twins from different planets. We shared a keyboard, but not a

#Microsoft #Copilot peut lire des fichiers à accès restreint
Le test fut mené avec Copilot pour #Sharepoint. Les testeurs ont pu lire un fichier protégé contenant des mots de passe alors que Sharepoint n'avait pas autorisé l'accès. Copilot a bypassé la restriction ! L'agent IT a pu afficher tout le contenu normalement inaccessible...
programmez.com/actualites/copi

Programmez! · Copilot peut lire des fichiers à accès restreintPen Test Partners, spécialisé dans le pentest, a voulu voir si Copilot pouvait accéder et lire des fichiers sensibles à accès restreint. Le test fut mené avec Copilot pour Sharepoint.

🚀 New Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.4151 Released!

Microsoft just dropped a fresh update to the Beta Channel with powerful new features 👇

✨ AI Actions in File Explorer – Summarize docs, erase photo objects, and more with right-click

⚙️ Advanced Settings – Git info in File Explorer, long path support, and virtual workspace controls

🔋 Smarter Power Management – Better battery life when idle

🔍 Search & Widgets improvements

🛠️ Tons of fixes & enhancements

👉 Make sure you’ve enabled “Get the latest updates as soon as they’re available” in Settings > Windows Update to access these features early.

🎥 Watch the full breakdown & demo in our new video!

🔗 youtu.be/51zoQz0ojhk

#github’s marketing for #copilot is crafted to inspire FOMO: it lists uncited research with higher gains than most independent studies have found, and links you to a page which has a “Buy” button but doesn’t actually list who requested anything or even the level of intent.