telemetry

LG owners across multiple forums woke up to a routine webOS firmware update that had quietly placed Microsoft Copilot on their home screens — and for many the assistant behaved like a system-level feature that could only be hidden, not removed, touching off a sharp backlash over device autonomy...

ColdFusion’s video essay and the forum reactions it provoked capture a growing tension at the heart of the PC era: Windows is evolving from a toolkit that users tune into a cloud‑and‑AI‑first platform that acts for users, and that shift is forcing a hard reckoning about privacy, choice, and the...

Windows 10 ships with a powerful—and sometimes opaque—set of privacy controls that let you limit what Microsoft and third‑party apps can learn about you, but those settings change over time and updates can silently reintroduce permissive defaults; this feature walks through the controls you...

Dave Plummer — the veteran engineer who wrote Windows’ Task Manager and shipped the NT port of Space Cadet Pinball — has a blunt prescription for Windows 11: stop the feature treadmill, stop embedding more AI into the shell, and run a single, concentrated stability-and-security cycle the way...

O&O ShutUp10++ cut through the clutter and stopped most of the hidden telemetry on my laptop — not by magic, but by giving me a single, transparent control panel for every privacy-related switch Windows buries across Settings, Group Policy, and the Registry. The result is a powerful, portable...

Cribl’s new integration makes Cribl Stream a first-class, dedicated data source for Microsoft Fabric Real‑Time Intelligence, enabling organizations to pipe, enrich, and optimize high‑volume telemetry directly into Fabric Eventstream for real‑time security, operations, and AI workloads...

Microsoft will ship native Sysmon functionality inside Windows, a move that promises to turn the longtime Sysinternals staple for deep endpoint visibility into a formally supported, update‑managed OS capability and to dramatically simplify how organizations collect forensic‑grade telemetry...

Cribl’s new, dedicated integration with Microsoft Fabric’s Real‑Time Intelligence turns a previously bespoke ingestion and pipeline exercise into a one‑click‑style data source in Fabric — enabling organizations to pipe enriched, high‑fidelity telemetry directly into Fabric Eventstream for...

The race to leave Windows 10 behind is a strategic litmus test for IT teams: a mix of security, procurement, user experience and long-term platform planning that no organization can ignore. Recent industry reporting—drawing on Lakeside Software telemetry and practitioner experience—lays out nine...

I decided to go completely incognito on Windows 11 — and in doing so I turned a default "cloud-first" PC into a device that shares almost nothing it doesn't have to, trades convenience for control, and forces a handful of practical new habits that significantly reduce the surface attackers and...

AI is already listening, watching, measuring and learning from the devices we carry, wear and keep in our homes — and that steady stream of telemetry is reshaping privacy in ways most consumers don’t fully grasp today. Background Everyday objects — from smart speakers and fitness trackers to...

A fresh Windows install should feel like a clean slate — not a marketplace for tips, telemetry, and promotions. Within minutes of first boot, Windows will enable a set of defaults designed to promote Microsoft services, collect optional diagnostics, and surface suggestions that many users find...

Windows 11 gives you a surprisingly granular privacy control panel—if you know where to look and what each toggle actually does—so spending 10–20 minutes auditing and tightening those settings will materially reduce data sharing with Microsoft and third‑party apps while preserving the features...

Microsoft’s Gaming Copilot for Windows 11 has been thrust into the privacy spotlight after community testers discovered that the assistant can take screenshots during gameplay and — in some preview configurations — a “Model training on text” toggle that relates to on‑screen text appeared enabled...

Microsoft’s Gaming Copilot has been thrust into the privacy spotlight this week after community testers reported that the in‑overlay AI assistant captured gameplay screenshots and extracted on‑screen text — and that evidence of outbound network traffic tied to those captures was visible in...

Microsoft’s terse reassurance — that Gaming Copilot “only runs when you use it” — has cooled the most alarmist headlines, but the beta’s early days have still exposed a cluster of technical, privacy and performance questions that every Windows gamer and IT pro should understand before enabling...

Autonomous AI products now live or die by how quickly and safely they learn from real use, not just by the raw power of a foundational model alone — Microsoft’s new “signals loop” framing makes that shift explicit and shows how fine‑tuning, telemetry, and operational speed are converging into...

Maintaining control over what Windows collects and transmits about you is no longer optional — it’s essential. A recent roundup of “Top Privacy Protectors for Windows” highlighted a group of free utilities that promise to simplify and centralize privacy tweaks for Windows 10 and 11, naming tools...

Kaspersky’s telemetry snapshot landed like a warning siren for IT teams and home users: more than half of monitored devices in the vendor’s dataset were still running Windows 10 as Microsoft’s official end-of-support deadline approached, leaving a large population of endpoints exposed the moment...

If you value privacy on your PC, the single most important Windows 11 switch to flip is the Send optional diagnostic data toggle — and you should understand precisely what flipping it does, what it does not do, and the safe ways to reduce the diagnostic pipeline between your machine and...