Copilot is now injecting ads into GitHub pull requests. It's a disaster.

A developer caught Copilot adding promotional "tips" to code descriptions, highlighting a messy new era of AI slop.

GitHub pulls Copilot "feature" after it added advertising to more than 11,000 pull requests

"Quickly spin up Copilot coding agents from anywhere on your macOS or Windows machine with Raycast," the note said, ...
OfficeChai

User Discovers That GitHub Copilot Edited An Ad Into Their PR, Company Responds

A routine typo fix turned into a corporate trust crisis for GitHub this week, after a developer discovered that GitHub Copilot had ...
SiliconANGLE

New Relic strengthens software reliability with GitHub Copilot Coding Agent integration

Cloud observability platform provider New Relic Inc. today announced an integration with GitHub Copilot’s newly released agentic coding capability to provide development and operations teams faster ...
Visual Studio Magazine

GitHub Celebrates Microsoft's 50th by 'Vibe Coding with Copilot'

GitHub chose Microsoft's 50th anniversary to highlight a bevy of Copilot enhancements that further the practice of "vibe coding," where AI does all the drudgery according to human supervision. One of ...
ZDNet

I put GitHub Copilot's AI to the test - its mixed success at coding baffled me

I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen Best laptop cooling pads Best flip ...
Geeky Gadgets

Using GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code – Free AI Coding Assistant

Coding can be both exhilarating and exhausting. One moment, you’re deep in the flow, solving complex problems, and the next, you’re bogged down by repetitive tasks or hunting for snippets across ...