Firefox Nightly users can now summon Microsoft Copilot from the browser sidebar — an optional, opt‑in hook that exposes Copilot’s chat, voice and summarization capabilities inside Firefox while reopening a broader debate about privacy, platform boundaries, and the creeping normalization of...
Anthropic’s abrupt switch to an opt‑out model for training Claude on consumer conversations has forced a long‑overdue reckoning: if you want to keep your chats from being recycled into the next generation of chatbots, you must actively say so — and the same is true for ChatGPT and Google’s...
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Microsoft’s Copilot app for Windows has received a staged Insider update that adds conversational, semantic file search on Copilot+ PCs and a redesigned Copilot home that surfaces recent apps, files and conversations — all packaged in Copilot app builds starting with version 1.25082.132.0 and...
Microsoft’s latest Copilot update for Windows 11 is quietly expanding the assistant’s remit from a sidebar helper into a more capable, context-aware productivity hub by testing AI-powered semantic file and image search inside the Copilot app and a redesigned Copilot home that pairs recent...
Windows ships with several convenience features turned on by default that quietly share behavioral and system data; disabling a few of them will materially improve your privacy without breaking day-to-day use. The core four I always disable on Windows 11 are Diagnostics & Feedback (telemetry)...
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Microsoft’s Canary-channel update to Windows 11 has quietly upgraded the Snipping Tool from a convenient screenshot utility into a more capable, app-aware recorder — the Snipping Tool can now capture a specific application window as the recording region, removing one of the most persistent...
Microsoft has changed how it handles voice recordings in a way that directly affects what you can see and manage on the Microsoft Privacy Dashboard: new voice clips contributed for product improvement are now de‑identified and are no longer associated with individual Microsoft accounts, which...
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Microsoft recently changed how it handles voice recordings used to improve speech recognition — new voice clips are no longer tied to your Microsoft account and therefore won’t appear on the Privacy Dashboard, but legacy recordings and certain metadata remain viewable and removable through the...
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Microsoft’s public guidance on voice data makes a clear point: voice recordings gathered by speech-recognition features are used to provide and improve services, but the way that data is collected, stored, and displayed in users’ privacy controls has changed significantly — especially since...
Microsoft’s Copilot has rapidly evolved from a promising generative AI tool into what is increasingly becoming a seamless productivity companion integrated across Windows, Microsoft 365 apps, and the Edge browser. Recent developments point to a watershed feature now entering early tests...
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Microsoft has officially introduced a public preview of Windows Recall, an innovative feature for certain Windows 11 PCs. After a year-long anticipation filled with delays, controversies, and a significant dose of skepticism, this new functionality is now accessible for testing—albeit only on...
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