Microsoft is adding more features to Recall despite its ongoing privacy issues
This new feature is called “Screenray,” and it allows people to feed Copilot an image of their desktop and analyze parts of it for better accessibility.
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Microsoft’s Recall should be celebrated as the savior of SMEs and scourge of CEOs
SMEs seeking to amplify employee productivity must start here with a little light anthropology – or even a full organization analysis – that explores their own habits.
Google is working on a Recall-like feature for Chromebooks, too
“I think there’s something there in terms of screen capture in a way that obviously doesn’t feel creepy and feels like the user’s in control.”
Microsoft pulls release preview build of Windows 11 24H2 after Recall controversy
It’s not unheard of for Microsoft to stop distributing a beta build of Windows after releasing it, but the Release Preview channel is typically the last stop for a Windows update before a wider release.
Windows Recall demands an extraordinary level of trust that Microsoft hasn’t earned
Microsoft has struggled with security and privacy in its products. CEO Satya Nadella pledged to make security the most important thing at the company…To launch Recall with exploitable security holes flies in the face of that directive.
Windows AI feature that screenshots everything labeled a security ‘disaster’
Despite Microsoft’s promises of a secure and encrypted Recall experience, cybersecurity expert Kevin Beaumont has found that the AI-powered feature has some potential security flaws.
Windows 11 Copilot+ AI features like Recall can be enabled without an NPU
A developer on Twitter has taken the discussion a step further by revealing that one of the flagship new features, Recall, doesn’t require the presence of a powerful NPU after all.
Recall and your data
You can always turn off saving snapshots at any time by going to Settings> Privacy & security > Recall & snapshots on your PC. You can also pause snapshots temporarily by selecting the Recall icon in the system tray on your PC.
Recall is Microsoft’s key to unlocking the future of PCs
The scope of Recall, which Microsoft has internally called AI Explorer, is incredibly vast — it includes logging things you do in apps, tracking communications in live meetings, remembering all websites you’ve visited for research, and more.
New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC
“Recall uses Copilot+ PC advanced processing capabilities to take images of your active screen every few seconds,” Microsoft says on its website.
Microsoft announces Copilot Plus PCs with built-in AI hardware
One of the flagship features it’ll power is “Recall,” which is supposed to use AI to create a searchable “photographic memory” of everything you’ve done and seen on your PC.
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