Microsoft, get your s___ together, You got too comfortable once you were the de facto software monopoly started "we'll put CoPilot in Notepad", "vibe" programming and CEO push for the bloated Microsoft Edge WebView2 everywhere (the Chromium‑based rendering control).
Outlook went to 14 GB in documented WebView2 memory‑leak cases observed in Microsoft 365 on Windows 11. Ironically the Microsoft Teams Old version (Electron, Windows 10) was considered bloated at 1.5 GB RAM in heavy use. 1.5GB is the good old days. Now 4 GB under heavy use.
I forgot to thank Microsoft for not only burning through RAM likes it's lottery win, but also sucking up huge amounts of RAM and GPU's for AI.
With a gutted American SEC, I'm not surprised that USA allow Microsoft to acquire GitHub. Might as well ask a scorpion not to sting.
But I thought more highly of the European Commission. The EU gave unconditional approval. They stated Microsoft would not gain harmful market power and that competition would remain strong. No EU lobbying needed. Have they been living under a rock?
Note the following only affects developers, but it's a far and wide number of developers. Some developers out there won't know they are injecting credential stealers.
I really hope it causes a Microsoft stock crash, and Chief Executives bonus eliminations, as it's the only things they care about.
Dozens of cryptographically verified open source packages from Microsoft were compromised late last week to add advanced credential-stealing code that was triggered when developers opened them in AI coding agents.
In all, multiple researchers said, 73 packages were flagged as malicious when automated systems on GitHub blocked them on the platform. Rather than noting they are malicious—and that developers who used AI agents to work with them should assume their systems are compromised—the Microsoft-owned GitHub said it disabled the packages “due to a violation of GitHub’s terms of service.” The text went on to encourage the package owner to contact GitHub.
It wasn’t until Monday that Microsoft even raised the possibility the packages were infected. In an email, the company stated: “We have temporarily removed some repositories as we investigate potential malicious content.”
The incident is the second supply-chain attack in as many months to breach an official Microsoft repository account ...
That’s nothing new to me; it’s precisely why I moved away from Office a long time ago and—as of June 1st—abandoned Windows entirely. It certainly wasn’t just to be different or unconventional. Many good developers have therefore already migrated from GitHub to Codeberg.
BTZT – Big Tech Zero Trust, because I alone decide. 🙂
Anyone who wants to keep putting up with such brazen behavior—or believes there are no alternatives—is free to stick with it; they’re beyond noticing anything anymore anyway.
Qui nihil scit, omnia credere debet. - He who knows nothing must believe everything.
Firewalls do NOT stop dragons. Really not!
I avoid Big Tech. They try hard to dictate technology and „culture“ across borders.
In effect we have everything to hide from someone, and no idea who „someone“ is.
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