Windows 11’s Most Controversial AI Feature Is Back, and It’ll Never Be Secure

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, “contextual” Windows Search function will actually offer a better OS experience. Recall has been available to certain Windows Insider beta users for the last few months, but this will be the first time the feature will reach a general audience. In a blog post, Microsoft described everything that’s the same and different with this “opt-in” iteration of what it showed last May. The software automatically screenshots what you do on your PC. AI interprets those screenshots and allows users to search throug ... Read full article.