digital privacy

Every so often, a new PC feature arrives that promises to change the way we live—and, perhaps, quietly watch absolutely everything we do. Microsoft's foray into activity-tracking with Copilot Recall is generating the kind of buzz usually reserved for disruptive startups and robot overlords...

There’s always a peculiar moment in the world of Windows when a feature designed for “convenience” inspires more raised eyebrows than a misfiring biometric scanner at airport security. Today’s celebrity culprit is Microsoft’s Recall: the shiny new Copilot+ Windows 11 feature that, after an...

Windows Recall, Microsoft’s long-promised leap into the world of on-device AI, is finally rolling out on Copilot+ PCs alongside Windows 11 KB5055627. And if you’re hoping for fanfare, look no further—the company has positioned Recall as the kind of game-changer we haven’t seen since Clippy first...

Microsoft has pulled the sheets back on a new Windows 11 feature called "Recall", and let's just say—it’s dividing the crowd. Imagine giving your PC a "photographic memory" to snapshot almost everything you do, organizing it into a searchable timeline. Sounds futuristic and cool, right? Well, it...

Not content with letting you paint your desktop in weird pastel hues or chasing you down with AI-powered widgets, Microsoft is now ready to add a little more, shall we say, color, to your conversations—by letting you toggle off the profanity filter for voice typing in Windows 11. That’s right...

Microsoft’s ever-expanding AI playground for Windows continues to swell, now with the public rollout of three new Copilot+ features that promise to nudge PCs further into the intelligent age—though not without a fair bit of controversy and IT head-scratching along the way. If you weren’t already...

The day is finally here: Microsoft’s Recall feature, whose existence has haunted privacy forums and excited productivity nerds in equal measure since its unveiling last year, is officially going public. But don’t drop your firewalls or start joyfully screen-capturing your time sheets just...

There’s nothing quite like the thrill of free Wi-Fi in the wild—be it the aromatic caffeine haven of your favorite coffee shop or the soul-sucking limbo of airport terminals. But for all their promise of connectivity, public Wi-Fi networks are a little like hotel minibars: seemingly convenient...

Windows 7: the golden child, the operating system that managed to charm both crusty IT veterans and fussy home users alike, wasn’t just good—it was unsettlingly good. So good, in fact, that many even now look upon their old, unsupported Windows 7 machines with the same muted sorrow as they might...

As we hurtle towards the future, it seems almost surreal that Windows 10 has been with us for nearly a decade. However, on October 14, 2025, the curtain will fall on the support for this operating system, marking a significant turning point for millions of users worldwide. This article breaks...

Microsoft wants you to love Windows 11, but for many, it’s starting to feel more like a clingy partner who keeps reiterating how you’ll never find security like theirs ever again—especially if your hardware isn’t rocking that magical little chip called TPM 2.0. This year, the drumbeat has grown...

With the advent of Windows 11, Microsoft has set the stage for a modern computing experience—one where security is not just an afterthought, but a fundamental building block. Central to this security architecture is the Trusted Platform Module 2.0 (TPM 2.0), a small chip that is proving to be a...

It started with an alert that sliced through the digital silence of Syria’s wired population—a warning so electrified it might as well have been delivered on a scroll, rolled out with sirens and flashing police lights. The Syrian Telecommunications Authority, sounding the alarms like a battalion...

Microsoft’s latest gambit in the AI arms race has landed with all the subtlety of a brick through a window, thudding its way into select Windows 11 desktops under the name Recall. But don’t let the mundane nomenclature fool you. It’s less a forgetful function for the kitchen and more a...

Windows 11, the latest flagship OS from Microsoft, is sleek, pretty, highly configurable—and, like just about everything in modern computing, just a tad too curious about where you are. The operating system’s interest in your whereabouts isn’t unique (hello, iPhones and Androids!), but maybe you...

You’ve got secrets, embarrassing Google searches, sensitive logins, or maybe just that one meme you copied waiting to spill onto someone else’s screen. In the lightning-fast copy-and-paste world of Windows 11, your humble clipboard silently hoards everything—text, images, links, and all—hoping...

The hum of anticipation in the Windows world rarely sounds as charged as when Microsoft resurrects a controversial feature, dusts it off, and declares it ready for prime time. With Windows 11’s Recall feature—Microsoft’s latest attempt to give your computer the memory of an elephant—controversy...

If you thought zombies only haunted apocalyptic horror flicks and discount Halloween shops, think again—because Microsoft Copilot, the not-so-humble AI assistant, is here to prove the walking dead are now a feature in your operating system, too. And much like its B-movie counterparts, no matter...

The days of setting up a new Windows PC in blissful offline solitude, choosing a username like “PC_Master” and a password you’ll forget within the hour, are nearing their end. Microsoft, that digital behemoth of Redmond, has long courted its users with the siren call of seamless cloud...

Buckle up, Windows aficionados, because the days of breezing through your Windows 11 installation screens with a quaint little local account—no cloud tethers, no sign-up shenanigans—are now officially over. Microsoft has waved its magic wand, and what once was a hidden door for privacy diehards...