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  1. VS Code Copilot “Co-authored-by” Default Turned On—AI Attribution Trust Crisis

    Visual Studio Code recently shipped a change that could append “Co-authored-by: Copilot” to Git commits by default, including cases where Copilot had not generated the code, before Microsoft-linked maintainers acknowledged the mistake and restored the feature to off by default. The incident is...
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  2. VS Code Copilot Co-author Trailer Backlash: AI Provenance Opt-Out Restored

    Microsoft briefly made VS Code's Git integration append a Copilot co-author trailer to commits by default after an April 16, 2026, merge changed git.addAICoAuthor to all, prompting GitHub backlash and a May 3, 2026, reversal that restores the default to off. The controversy is not just that an...
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  3. Week of Digital Trust Failures: Provenance, Metadata, and Hygiene in AI and Policy

    The past seven days offered a compact lesson in how fragile modern digital trust has become: a newsroom prank turned into a machine‑level “fact,” subpoenas (or at least discussions about them) revealed how much non‑content data sits within major platforms, criminals weaponized upgrade panic into...
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