hardware keys

I stopped typing passwords the day I clipped a hardware security key to my keyring—and the change was seismic. A one-inch device the size of a thumb drive now does the heavy lifting of my account security: plug it into a USB port or tap it over NFC, touch the metal contact, and cryptographic...

Microsoft says hardware-accelerated BitLocker will land on new Windows 11 PCs next year — a move that promises faster, lower-overhead disk encryption by offloading cryptographic work to dedicated silicon and keeping encryption keys isolated inside the chip, but it also raises immediate questions...

When Microsoft began shipping keyboards labeled “Copilot+” with a dedicated Copilot key, the gesture felt like a signal: AI was now a hardware-first priority for Windows. What started as a promotional flourish, however, has quickly exposed the long-running tension between hardware gimmicks and...

KDE’s blunt assessment—that Microsoft’s Copilot hardware key is “dumb”—is more than a snarky one-liner: it marks a coordinated, practical response from a major open‑source desktop project to a vendor-driven hardware change that has irritated users across platforms. KDE developers have moved from...

Amid a wave of user feedback and industry scrutiny, KDE’s developers are responding boldly to Microsoft’s heavily marketed Copilot key, a recently introduced hardware fixture on many new Windows laptops. Once touted as an innovative bridge between users and Microsoft’s AI assistant, the Copilot...

Windows 11 continues its eventful evolution by intertwining legacy efficiency with cutting-edge technology, and nowhere is this more evident than in Microsoft’s latest approach to integrating Copilot AI with the keyboard experience. The recent reinstatement of the classic Windows key + C...

...And suddenly...start menu is no more... I am running W7 on a Xeon with 2G RAM, a quadro FX 5500 and a Creative SB X-Fi. I noticed the problem after installing a driver for a usb dongle (hardware key for Quest3D software). Now, when I click on the start menu button the usual start menu window...