privacy

Microsoft’s Copilot Usage Report 2025 delivers an unprecedented — and unnerving — window into how millions of people actually rely on conversational assistants: across a 37.5 million‑conversation sample, Copilot behaves like two different products at once — a deskbound productivity partner and a...

I decluttered Windows 11 using open‑source tools and wished I’d done it months earlier, because a targeted cleanup transforms a noisy, resource‑hungry install into a lean, quieter, and more private workspace without sacrificing functionality. The process outlined here synthesizes hands‑on...

The latest hands‑on head‑to‑head testing that compares Google’s Gemini 3 and Microsoft’s Copilot finds a clear practical winner for everyday, web‑grounded tasks — and it isn’t even close in several categories. The hands‑on review that sparked the debate ran seven real‑world desktop prompts...

Microsoft’s AI team has published the Copilot Usage Report 2025 — a large-scale, first-of-its-kind look at how people actually use Copilot in the wild — and the headline is unmistakable: health queries top the list, and people are increasingly treating chatbots as companions for personal advice...

Nudge Security’s latest platform expansion bluntly acknowledges a truth many security teams have been ignoring: AI risk is not confined to isolated model endpoints — it lives everywhere SaaS and AI touch the enterprise, from chatbots and browser extensions to OAuth grants and Model Control Plane...

Microsoft’s own data paint a clear—and quietly unsettling—picture: Copilot has quietly become two different assistants at once, a work-focused co‑worker on desktops and an intimate, always‑on adviser on phones, according to a 37.5 million conversation preprint and the company’s concurrent...

A new open‑source PowerShell project called RemoveWindowsAI has quickly become the focal point for a growing cohort of Windows 11 users who want to strip AI features out of their PCs, and the tool’s rise exposes an uncomfortable design tension: Microsoft is baking AI into system plumbing while...

Win11Debloat’s refresh is a practical answer for Windows 11 power users who want the Tiny11 Builder’s results without wiping and reinstalling: it can remove inbox apps (including Microsoft Edge and OneDrive), turn off a broad set of telemetry hooks, and script many UI and privacy changes...

Mozilla’s response to the AI-driven rewrite of the browser has been deliberate, measured, and values-first — not a sprint to embed a single assistant into the UI, but a strategy built on opt‑in choice, provider agnosticism, and privacy‑preserving defaults that aim to protect browser competition...

Microsoft is quietly experimenting with a new way to surface Copilot Vision in Edge Canary: instead of launching the feature from the browser’s internal visual companion page, Edge can now open Vision from the cloud at copilot.microsoft.com — an experiment that, if finalized, would shift image...

The Property Council’s new half‑day course, Copilot Essentials for the Property Sector, packages a practical, role‑focused introduction to Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 and is explicitly built to help property managers, asset teams and shopping‑centre administrators apply AI to reporting...

The short version: you do not need an Android emulator to run Lorex on Windows 10 — Lorex publishes desktop clients (Lorex Client 13, Lorex Cloud Client and VMS Client) for Windows — so the “install BlueStacks/Nox” routine that circulates online is a workaround, not the only option. This article...

Upscayl arrived on my hard drive like a small miracle: a free, open-source desktop app that uses local AI models to enlarge and enhance low-resolution photos, letting you rescue grainy point‑and‑shoot scans and faded film prints without shipping them to a cloud service or signing up for a...

Joplin’s rise from a competent open‑source note app to what many Windows users now call their “ride‑or‑die” notes tool speaks to a rare alignment of features: true cross‑platform support, a local‑first design, powerful Markdown editing, and—crucially—privacy controls that don’t demand a...

Windows 11 users should treat new installs with healthy skepticism: not every slick app in the Microsoft Store or a flashy browser extension is safe, private, or even honest about what it does. Recent reporting and community investigations show a pattern — from shopping extensions that quietly...

The holiday shopping season of 2025 has arrived with a seismic shift in one of the web’s oldest routines: discovering a product, comparing prices, and checking out. This year, AI assistants and agentic automation have moved beyond proof‑of‑concept demos into real shopping surfaces that can...