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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...

Sylvan Lake’s council has formally moved from debate to action: at its regular meeting on October 14, 2025 the town unanimously approved an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Use Policy that permits staff and elected officials to use only approved, enterprise-grade AI features — specifically Microsoft...

Microsoft is testing an experimental Copilot agent called Copilot Actions that can autonomously operate desktop and web apps on Windows — including sending emails, updating local documents, resizing photos, organizing files, and running multi‑step workflows — all from within a contained, opt‑in...

Microsoft’s latest update to Windows 11 marks a deliberate pivot: the operating system is being reframed as an AI-first platform, with Copilot graduating from a sidebar chatbot to a multimodal, permissioned assistant that can listen, see, and — under controlled conditions — act on your behalf...

Microsoft’s Copilot has grown teeth: a wave of recent updates adds Voice, Vision, advanced reasoning modes and deeper app integrations that promise real time productivity gains — and an equal number of eyebrow-raising privacy, accuracy, and cost questions. Background Microsoft has pushed Copilot...

A fresh telemetry snapshot from remote‑support sessions underscores a stark reality: as Microsoft’s Windows 10 support deadline approaches, a large share of real‑world endpoints remain on an OS that will soon stop receiving routine security patches—creating an urgent migration and...