Published on: 2025-06-04 21:38:00
Facepalm: Microsoft's decision to make Recall an always-on screen recording feature has drawn widespread criticism. Privacy advocates urge users to shut it off, and developers are responding with tools like VeraCrypt, which now disables Recall and similar features by default. VeraCrypt has become a bit more resistant to Recall. The on-the-fly encryption tool, which emerged from the ashes of TrueCrypt, recently released version 1.26.24 with new features for all three supported operating systems
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-16 14:00:26
The Amazon-owned robotaxi company Zoox has issued its second recall in a month following a collision that occurred in San Francisco. It has already submitted a voluntary software recall notice to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) after an internal review of the incident and has already deployed the software update to its fleet of 270 vehicles. According to the company's announcement, an unoccupied Zoox robotaxi was struck by an electric scooter after braking at an inters
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-16 21:26:16
Amazon 's Zoox robotaxi unit issued a voluntary recall of its software for the second time in a month following a recent crash in San Francisco. On May 8, an unoccupied Zoox robotaxi was turning at low speed when it was struck by an electric scooter rider after braking to yield at an intersection. The person on the scooter declined medical attention after sustaining minor injuries as a result of the collision, Zoox said. "The Zoox vehicle was stopped at the time of contact," the company said i
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-20 01:14:00
Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust WTF?! Recall is shaping up to be a security and privacy nightmare – and one of the most popular messaging platforms is already trying to patch the hole. Signal's developers are now resorting to a "weird trick" involving Windows DRM to shield users from unwanted Microsoft surveillance. The desktop version of Signal now includes a new "Screen security" feature designed to block external programs – an
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-21 05:32:23
Signal has updated its Windows app to protect users' privacy by blocking Microsoft's AI-powered Recall feature from taking screenshots of their conversations. This new privacy feature, dubbed "screen security," is now enabled by default on all Windows 11 devices, where Recall continuously takes screenshots of all active windows every few seconds and analyzes them to build a database that can be searched using natural language. When enabled, screen security will set a Digital Rights Management
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-21 08:58:53
Encrypted messaging platform Signal is rolling out a feature called Screen Security to its Windows app. It's broadly a way to prevent a computer from logging screenshots of your messages when the app is open, but in a blog post , the company directly called out the Recall feature in Windows 11 as the reason for this new capability. Signal explained that what it essentially did was to flag its application as protected by Digital Rights Management (DRM), because content under that umbrella will n
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-21 07:46:53
Signal Desktop now includes support for a new “Screen security” setting that is designed to help prevent your own computer from capturing screenshots of your Signal chats on Windows. This setting is automatically enabled by default in Signal Desktop on Windows 11. If you’re wondering why we’re only implementing this on Windows right now, it’s because the purpose of this setting is to protect your Signal messages from Microsoft Recall. First announced on May 20, 2024, Microsoft Recall takes scr
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-21 21:21:39
Signal Messenger is warning the users of its Windows Desktop version that the privacy of their messages is under threat by Recall, the AI tool rolling out in Windows 11 that will screenshot, index, and store almost everything a user does every three seconds. Effective immediately, Signal for Windows will by default block the ability of Windows to screenshot the app. Signal users who want to disable the block—for instance to preserve a conversation for their records or make use of accessibility
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-22 08:46:53
Signal Desktop now includes support for a new “Screen security” setting that is designed to help prevent your own computer from capturing screenshots of your Signal chats on Windows. This setting is automatically enabled by default in Signal Desktop on Windows 11. If you’re wondering why we’re only implementing this on Windows right now, it’s because the purpose of this setting is to protect your Signal messages from Microsoft Recall. First announced on May 20, 2024, Microsoft Recall takes scr
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-17 01:06:45
Zoox, the autonomous vehicle company owned by Amazon, paused its driverless testing program for more than a week and issued a voluntary recall of its software following a crash in Las Vegas, according to the company and a filing with federal safety regulators. The April 8 crash, which involved an unoccupied Zoox vehicle and a passenger car, prompted the company to issue a recall for about 270 vehicles equipped with a specific version of its automated driving system. The recall number doesn’t re
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-17 09:59:19
Amazon 's Zoox issued a software recall for 270 of its robotaxis after a crash in Las Vegas last month, the company said Tuesday. The recall surrounds a defect with the vehicle's automated driving system that could cause it to inaccurately predict the movement of another car, increasing "the risk of a crash," according to a report submitted to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Zoox submitted the recall after an April 8 incident in Las Vegas where an unoccupied Zoox robotaxi c
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-01 09:08:05
Microsoft has confirmed that Windows Recall is rolling out to everyone with Windows 11 KB5055627 on Copilot+ PCs. Recall is an AI-powered feature that captures your screen, so you can quickly find and jump back into what you have seen before on your PC. As Microsoft describes, you can use Recall to "recall" the moment you saw on your PC. Windows Recall UI For example, if you were working on a PowerPoint presentation on financial operations, but you don't remember the name of the .ppt, you ca
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-01 13:13:00
Editor's take: We already have too much personal information floating around on the internet, and it's seemingly leaked on a monthly basis. So, is having snapshots of your screen taken every few seconds, stored and indexed – even locally – safe? These images could contain sensitive information that anyone with access to your computer can see. To me, it sounds like a bad idea. Let me hear your thoughts in the comments. Microsoft has officially launched its controversial Recall feature, but only
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-02 01:00:14
Almost a year since Microsoft announced its controversial Recall feature, and after several delays, the company has finally started bringing it to Copilot+ AI PCs today. The launch comes just a few weeks after Microsoft started testing Recall broadly with Windows Insiders. There are also a few other AI-powered features coming along with this release, including an improved Windows Search and Click to Do, which lets you quickly use AI features from within your existing apps. As usual, the release
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-02 01:00:00
Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET Microsoft is officially rolling out a trio of features designed to give Copilot+ PC's new AI-powered capabilities. On Friday, the software giant introduced three new tools for most Copilot+ PCs: Recall, a new AI-powered Windows search, and Click to Do. Launched earlier in April to Windows Insiders, the three features have been in preview mode only. Now, Microsoft is gradually pushing them out to all qualifying consumer PCs through the April 2025 Windows non-security preview
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After close to a full year—enough time that a SpongeBob SquarePants episode would fly the card “One Eternity Later”—Microsoft’s Recall feature for Copilot+ PCs are back, along with even more AI. Soon, everybody with a new Windows 11 laptop will have the opportunity to dive into Microsoft’s auto-screenshotting, “photographic memory” feature, or otherwise desperately try to delete it. If a feature that records everything on your screen doesn’t float your boat, Microsoft hopes an improved, “context
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-02 01:13:00
Microsoft is rolling out new AI tools to its Copilot Plus PC lineup, including contextual shortcuts, better search -- and its controversial Recall feature. The new tools are available through its April 2025 Windows non-security preview update for users of the Snapchat-powered, AI-enabled PCs, Microsoft said in a blog post Friday. The update comes about two weeks after Microsoft's long-delayed Recall feature became available in preview to more of the company's Windows Insiders, a group of users
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-02 01:00:48
Nearly a year after announcing the feature, Microsoft is finally ready to roll the controversial Windows Recall feature out to the general public, the company announced today on its Windows Experience Blog. Only available on Copilot+ PCs, a subset of Windows 11 systems sold within the last year or so, Recall takes continuous screenshots of everything you do on your PC, saving them, scraping text from them, and saving it all in a searchable database. This obviously has major security and privacy
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-02 01:00:00
is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. We knew Microsoft was about to launch Recall for real this time, and now the software maker is making it available to all Copilot Plus PCs. Recall, a feature that screenshots almost everything you do on a Copilot Plus PC, will be available today alongside an improved AI-powered Windows search interface and a new Click to Do feature that’s very similar to Google’s Circle to Sear
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-11 13:51:34
Microsoft is preparing to reintroduce Recall to Windows 11. A feature limited to Copilot+ PCs—a label that just a fraction of a fraction of Windows 11 systems even qualify for—Recall has been controversial in part because it builds an extensive database of text and screenshots that records almost everything you do on your PC. But the main problem with the initial version of Recall—the one that was delayed at the last minute after a large-scale outcry from security researchers, reporters, and us
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-22 05:35:28
Security and privacy advocates are girding themselves for another uphill battle against Recall, the AI tool rolling out in Windows 11 that will screenshot, index, and store everything a user does every three seconds. Ars Technica This story originally appeared on Ars Technica, a trusted source for technology news, tech policy analysis, reviews, and more. Ars is owned by WIRED's parent company, Condé Nast. When Recall was introduced in May 2024, security practitioners roundly castigated it for
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-23 00:35:38
Remember Recall? It’s been close to full trip around the sun since Microsoft announced then suddenly pulled its AI-powered, auto-screenshotting “photographic memory” software for Copilot+ PCs. Whether you want it or not, the feature is coming back, and you should be prepared for it not just if you’re planning to use it, but if you imagine any of your friends, family, or coworkers plan to use it too. Microsoft’s latest blog about the Windows Insider build KB5055627 includes the note that Recall
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-23 05:35:38
Remember Recall? It’s been close to full trip around the sun since Microsoft announced then suddenly pulled its AI-powered, auto-screenshotting “photographic memory” software for Copilot+ PCs. Whether you want it or not, the feature is coming back, and you should be prepared for it not just if you’re planning to use it, but if you imagine any of your friends, family, or coworkers plan to use it too. Microsoft’s latest blog about the Windows Insider build KB5055627 includes the note that Recall
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-23 15:50:14
Security and privacy advocates are girding themselves for another uphill battle against Recall, the AI tool rolling out in Windows 11 that will screenshot, index, and store everything a user does every three seconds. When Recall was first introduced in May 2024, security practitioners roundly castigated it for creating a gold mine for malicious insiders, criminals, or nation-state spies if they managed to gain even brief administrative access to a Windows device. Privacy advocates warned that R
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-24 13:45:40
Security and privacy advocates are girding themselves for another uphill battle against Recall, the AI tool rolling out in Windows 11 that will screenshot, index, and store everything a user does every three seconds. When Recall was first introduced in May 2024, security practitioners roundly castigated it for creating a gold mine for malicious insiders, criminals, or nation-state spies if they managed to gain even brief administrative access to a Windows device. Privacy advocates warned that R
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-24 17:13:37
Microsoft is gradually rolling out the AI-powered Windows Recall feature to Insiders in the Release Preview channel before making it generally available to all Windows users with Copilot+ PCs. Recall is an opt-in Windows feature that screenshots active windows every few seconds, analyzes them, and allows Windows 11 users to search text within the snapshots using natural language. As the Windows Insider Program Team said on Thursday, Recall can be paused whenever needed and will only allow acc
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-24 16:53:00
Dairy cooperative Agri-Mark has voluntarily recalled a single lot of Cabot Creamery 8-ounce Extra Creamy Premium Butter with sea salt, capturing the internet's attention thanks to its ick factor. The particularly disturbing food recall was due to "an elevated level of coliform bacteria" discovered during product testing. Coliform is a bacteria often associated with fecal matter (or, poop). Some types of coliform can also be found in plants, soil and in the intestines of animals. It's not always
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-25 01:08:00
Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET Following a series of delays and pauses, Microsoft is giving its problematic Recall feature another shot. It was tested last fall in the Dev Channel as an early, experimental feature, but it is now gradually rolling out in the Release Preview Channel. Now available in preview In a blog post published Thursday, the company announced that Recall is now available in preview mode for Windows Insiders running Windows 11 24H2 build 26100.3902. Available only on Copilot+ PCs, thi
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-25 09:00:03
Microsoft is gradually rolling out new preview features to Windows Insiders, including Recall, which has been the target of critics' security and privacy concerns since it was announced. It was originally supposed to be a preview experience that's broadly available to all Windows 11 Copilot+ PCs when the first batch of AI-assisted devices hit the market in June last year. But Microsoft pushed back its release to ensure the feature was truly secure. It delayed the tool's rollout yet again in Octo
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-25 13:04:00
A hot potato: It appears that one of the most controversial features Microsoft has ever created, Recall, will launch soon. Recall is designed to capture screenshots of everything you do on a Copilot+ PC so users can search through their previous activity, including web browsing. But it was delayed more than once over security concerns. Microsoft wrote in a post yesterday that a preview version of Recall is being rolled out to Insiders in the Release Preview Channel on Windows 11, version 24H2,
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