privacy by design

Abdi’s “Brilliant Windows 12” concept doesn’t just re‑dress Windows in a shinier skin — it surfaces a coherent, user‑first playbook for how Microsoft could fix the things people actually complain about in Windows 11, and the timing could not be more consequential as Windows 10 support winds down...

The Department of Veterans’ Affairs has quietly moved from talk to trial: a beta AI-powered search is now live on the DVA website, the agency has published an AI transparency statement, and small-scale pilots — including an internal Microsoft Copilot trial and a proof‑of‑concept claims tool...

Lenovo has quietly pulled a pair of deceptively simple but potentially game-changing proofs of concept onto the IFA stage: a ThinkBook that lets its 14‑inch display rotate a full 90 degrees into portrait mode, and a self‑orienting, AI‑assisted laptop stand that tracks your face and responds to...

Flyoobe’s latest update widens the tool’s ambitions from a niche installer bypass into a full-blown Out‑Of‑Box Experience (OOBE) surgeon’s kit: starting with version 1.7 (hotfixed to 1.7.284), the popular Flyby11 / Flyoobe project now ships an OOBE page that searches for and disables Copilot and...

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...

Microsoft’s Windows lead has just sketched a future in which the operating system becomes ambient, multimodal and agentic — able to listen, see, and act — a shift powered by a new class of on‑device AI and tight hardware integration that will reshape how organisations manage and secure Windows...

Microsoft's HoloLens may have been sidelined, but a Microsoft designer's fan-made vision — the Copilot Veja — shows how the next wave of mixed‑reality thinking could trade heavy headsets for discreet, AI‑supercharged earbuds that "see" the world and speak answers back in real time. Background...

Microsoft’s vision of a future Windows where you “talk to your PC” is less a finished product than an aggressive bet on changing workplace culture — and whether that bet pays off depends as much on human behavior as on silicon and software. Background: what Microsoft is saying — and what PCWorld...

A Microsoft designer’s fan-made concept imagines Copilot as a truly wearable, audio-first assistant — ear-worn “stems” called the Copilot Veja that trade a heads‑up display for stereoscopic cameras, tactile controls, and spoken feedback, inviting a fresh debate about the future of on‑body AI...

If you support Windows PCs for a solo or small law firm in Madison, the difference between “AI hype” and real productivity in 2025 comes down to one thing: can your tools plug neatly into a Microsoft-first stack without creating a client‑confidentiality migraine for partners or an audit headache...

Zscaler’s claim that its cloud sees “over half a trillion transactions a day” has suddenly become more than a brag about scale — it’s the center of a fresh privacy controversy after external reports and researcher commentary interpreted CEO remarks to mean Zscaler is using customer logs and full...

Brave’s privacy-first stance is the clearest example in the modern browser market of a company that has deliberately reshaped a Chromium base into a purpose-built, privacy-forward product — and in 2025 it remains one of the strongest choices when privacy and defensive defaults are your top...

Microsoft’s Copilot branding has quietly become the connective tissue for a new generation of imagined and real-world AI hardware — and the latest speculative designs show how familiar form factors (earbuds, pins, pendants) might finally fulfill the original promise of Google Glass without a...

The UK government has announced a national programme to trial agentic AI across public services, inviting frontier AI labs to work with Whitehall teams to build prototypes that could automate routine “life admin” — from filling forms and booking appointments to tailored careers and...

Microsoft's vision for Windows is no longer limited to desktops or a single input device — it's a multi-layered strategy that stitches cloud-first hardware, on-device AI accelerators, and richer multimodal interactions into a single computing continuum meant to be more ambient, private, and...

Microsoft has begun publicly testing a dramatic expansion of Copilot’s “vision” capabilities: a new Desktop Share mode that, when explicitly enabled by a user, lets Copilot Vision see and analyze an entire Windows desktop in real time. The feature is rolling out to Windows Insiders in markets...

Popular generative‑AI browser assistants can and do sweep up deeply personal data from ordinary web sessions — including health records, bank details and even social‑security numbers — and forward that content to remote servers where it can be tracked, profiled and reused in ways most users...

Microsoft's Windows lead has just sketched the next major evolution of the platform: an ambient, multi‑modal, agentic operating system that sees and hears what you do and partners with you through natural language. In a recent interview, Pavan Davuluri — Microsoft’s head of Windows — described a...

Microsoft’s unyielding push for users to adopt a Microsoft account when setting up Windows 11 has sparked debate among privacy advocates, power users, and IT professionals. As convenient as cloud synchronization might be, many users remain wary of entrusting their preferences, files, and data to...

The abrupt removal of ChatGPT’s “Make this chat discoverable” feature has once again cast a spotlight on the ever-contentious intersection of innovation, privacy, and user safety in the world of generative AI. When OpenAI introduced this opt-in function, they framed it as a bold experiment in...