After all, Windows doesn’t take screenshots of everything you do unless you opt in

Microsoft says it is making its new Recall feature in Windows 11, which takes a screenshot of everything you do on your PC, an opt-in feature and addresses several security concerns. The software giant first unveiled the Recall feature last month as part of its upcoming Copilot Plus PCs, but since then privacy advocates and … Read more

Adobe responds to controversy over terms of use, saying it doesn’t spy on users

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Adobe has released a new blog post explaining the changes to its terms of use, when Adobe applications can access a user’s content, and whether a user’s content will be used to improve its artificial intelligence (AI) models and services. Adobe to train. The need for clarification arose after numerous users, including some established creative … Read more

Microsoft paid Tenable a bug bounty for an Azure bug that it says doesn’t need a fix, just better documentation

A vulnerability (or just Azure working as intended, depending on who you ask) in Microsoft’s cloud may allow miscreants to bypass firewall rules and gain access to other people’s private web resources. The problem, discovered by Tenable’s research team, stems from Service Tags, an Azure construct. These tags can be used to group IP addresses … Read more

Daron Acemoglu doesn’t have all this AI hype

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, editor of the FT, selects her favorite stories in this weekly newsletter. The National Bureau of Economic Research has published a new paper from MIT’s superstar economist Daron Acemoglu, dismissing AI dreams as a productivity renaissance, accelerated growth and reduced inequality. At this point it almost feels … Read more

Windows 11’s AI-powered recall feature can run on unsupported PCs without an NPU, but Microsoft doesn’t want you to

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What you need to know Microsoft has unveiled a host of next-generation AI features coming with Windows 11 exclusively on Copilot+ PCs with powerful NPUs. One user bypassed these strict requirements and got Windows Recall running on Arm64 hardware. The feature works surprisingly well on unsupported hardware, but you’ll likely have a better experience on … Read more

New warp drive concept warps space, doesn’t move us very quickly

Enlarge / Caught in the aftermath of a temporal vortex, the Enterprise witnesses Earth, assimilated long ago, in the altered timeline. Paramount Pictures A team of physicists has discovered that it is possible to build a real, actual, physical warp drive without breaking the known rules of physics. One caveat: the ship doing the warping … Read more

Review: XDefiant (PS5) – Solid shooter that doesn’t stand out much, but still has potential

The multiplayer shooter genre has gone through a strange movement in recent years. Call of Duty just isn’t what it used to be, Battlefield 2042 missed the mark somewhat, and even Apex Legends has become less interesting as it enters its 21st season of content. This is where a whole bunch of new kids have … Read more