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Daily News Stuff 22 August 2024

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  • Microsoft is planning to try again with its obviously insane Windows "Total" Recall spyware system.  (Ars Technica)

    This is the feature - key to the so-called Copilot Plus platform - that takes screenshots of everything you do on your computer - passwords, bank account details, confidential emails - and puts them in a single conveniently labelled and indexed box for AI assistants and Russian/Chinese/North Korean/Iranian hackers to search for you.

    The database will now require you to log in with Windows Hello to access it, where before it was an all-you-can-eat data buffet for any application running on your computer.
    "Security continues to be our top priority and when Recall is available for Windows Insiders in October we will publish a blog with more details," reads today's update to Microsoft Windows and Devices Corporate Vice President Pavan Davuluri's blog post.
    The lie detector detected that that was a lie.

    Fortunately - for now - this won't function at all unless you have a new CPU with a neural processing unit capable of at least 40 trillion operations per second.  Desktop processors - even brand new ones like AMD's Ryzen 9950X - don't have that.
     

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