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A thirty‑second clip went viral over the weekend because it did something Microsoft’s PR can’t fix: it made what the company calls “Copilot” look both useless and intrusive at the same time. In the video, programmer Ryan Fleury follows a settings search suggestion in Windows 11 — a brightly lit...

A chain of recent disclosures shows that seemingly helpful browser extensions — including a long‑running Chrome add‑on and several “privacy” VPN tools with millions of installs — quietly gained the ability to intercept, record and transmit users’ AI-chat conversations and web traffic, turning...

If your conversations with an AI assistant ever felt a little too familiar, there’s a very good reason: most consumer chatbots keep a persistent file on you — your chat transcripts, distilled “memories,” and sometimes even the right to use those words to train future models. What started as an...

Most AI chat apps keep a running file on you — your words, pictures, clicks and even what the assistant “remembers” between sessions — and there are practical, immediate steps you can take right now to shrink that file or stop it growing. Background The recent wave of assistant features —...

Microsoft’s recent reversal on how AI assistants interact with user files in Windows 11 marks a decisive privacy U‑turn: the operating system will now require explicit, per‑agent consent before any AI agent can read or act on content in the OS “known folders” (Desktop, Documents, Downloads...

A family of popular browser extensions marketed as free VPNs and privacy tools secretly intercepted entire conversations with ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude and several other AI chat services, then forwarded those chats to analytics servers and — according to researchers — to a...

You’ve heard about GPUs and data centers for AI, but the infrastructure story that matters next is the network—because agentic AI and the coming surge of machine-to-machine chatter will push networks into territory most were never built to handle. The latest episode of The Five Nine warns that...

Telegram’s Cocoon went live this week, instantly turning the messaging giant into a player in the AI infrastructure market by launching a decentralized, TON‑backed marketplace that routes inference requests to third‑party GPUs running inside trusted execution environments (TEEs) — notably Intel...

Mustafa Suleyman’s quip about being “mindblown” that people call modern AI “underwhelming” landed in the middle of a much larger and nastier conversation: Microsoft is aggressively folding Copilot and generative AI into the fabric of Windows 11, and a broad cross-section of users — from longtime...

Perplexity’s Comet and the cascade of disclosures this year have exposed a stark truth: agentic AI browsers that act on user behalf dramatically expand the attack surface of everyday web browsing, and the technical and legal fallout shows the industry is still scrambling to catch up. Background...

Seeing is believing: an uncompromising, absolute‑waterfront architectural masterpiece at 2 Gwinganna Avenue, Kiama has just hit the market with a price guide of $8 million and an expressions‑of‑interest campaign closing at 5pm on Monday 24 November, putting a rare front‑row oceanfront...

Samsung has quietly moved its long-running mobile browser onto Windows PCs: a region‑gated beta of Samsung Internet for PC began rolling out at the end of October 2025, bringing cross‑device sync, Galaxy AI helpers such as Browsing Assist, and Samsung Pass credential continuity to Windows 11 and...

Microsoft’s Copilot push has become a lightning rod — not because the technology is uninteresting, but because the messaging, demos and rollout cadence have repeatedly collided with an audience that’s tired of broken promises, privacy worries and an operating system that still feels unfinished...

When the question is how much of your life an AI chatbot keeps, the short and verifiable answer is: it varies wildly — and right now Microsoft’s Copilot stands out as the one that, by design and contract, collects the least intrusive set of user data. Background AI chatbots exploded into...

Microsoft’s plan to recast Windows 11 as an agentic operating system—one that anticipates needs and takes action via autonomous AI agents—has provoked an unprecedented wave of user and developer backlash, exposing fault lines in trust, privacy, and platform stewardship that Microsoft must...

Microsoft’s newest Copilot ad sparked an unusually public backlash this week — a chorus of sharp, high‑profile critiques that ranged from Fortnite creator Tim Sweeney’s mocking barb about the vertical taskbar to Elon Musk’s pointed agreement over Microsoft’s push toward forced account sign‑ins —...

Microsoft security researchers have revealed a striking privacy weakness in how modern AI chatbots stream answers: a side‑channel attack, dubbed Whisper Leak, can infer conversation topics from encrypted traffic by analyzing packet sizes and timings — and that vulnerability is real enough that...

Apple has quietly opened the door to a dramatic reshaping of Siri, reportedly asking Google to build a bespoke version of its Gemini large language model to power a long-awaited, AI-first revamp of the voice assistant — a move that would mark one of the most consequential third‑party...

Microsoft’s Gaming Copilot has become the center of a heated privacy debate after forum posts and network traces suggested the new Windows 11 Game Bar assistant may be capturing gameplay screenshots and sending extracted text back to Microsoft — a claim the company says is based on a...

Microsoft’s push to make AI genuinely local on Windows has produced a practical question for buyers, IT teams and privacy‑minded users: which AI capabilities actually run on your PC’s hardware, and how much control do you — or your organization — have over them? The headline answer is simple...