Apples use of machine learning has been solid so far. This new stuff is weird.
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Security Researcher Calls Windows 11 AI 'Recall' Screenshotting Feature a Disaster [Updated]
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More appropriately a kitty litter sand box.Only run windows in a sandbox.
Honestly, from all the comments I read, I don't think most people are all too excited for "AI," as it's broadly termed. If anything, people are very hesitant or don't see the value, and most are already sick to death of hearing about it, and we're just at the front door of this hellhouse. Just read about the new products coming out, AI gets mentioned 20-something times in 3 paragraphs. I get there are probably real values to it, but right now the big tech companies are casting a wide net and hoping they can ride the wave. I dunno, at some point it becomes too much of something else using your computer, and before too long, you're the "Copilot."
I still retain windows machines for gaming and flexibility in case Apple pulled off a “recall” like feature. Whoops never mind Microsoft is like the villain that goes undercover for a while then re-emerges. Rejoining Amazon and now Google in a journey to put slime Facebook. But oh yes “Apple is a monopoly”. (Yes Apple does some dumb things but man. They’ve made Apple look so good with their recent AI push)Seriously, what was/is Microsoft thinking with this "feature?" It is one hack (which we all know will happen) from turning into one of, if not, the biggest data breaches ever. Worst of all, it seems Microsoft straight up lied to their customers about where the data for "Recall" is supposed to be stored, and the security of it. Techies like us, would turn this "feature" off instantly, however, just think of the millions and millions (worldwide) of Windows PC's that the user will most likely never even know that this is even running or care!
I am very happy my ONLY dealings with Microsoft these days is Xbox, which to be fair, is a great experience!
Very glad I am an Apple only guy (except Xbox) and do not have to deal with the mess that is Windows!
And how long before you can't turn it off? Edge is baked into the OS. Even if you try to remove it, it finds its way back on the machine.
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… I wonder how many people will actually use AI. I never use Siri.
It's hard to judge by Siri usage, since Siri is not AI, despite what people claim. If it's good enough, I'm sure many people will use it. I wouldn't mind a Jarvis on my phone, but the problem is, it's not Jarvis but Beavis.
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easy if you want. setting personalization copilot
um, to those who have no idea what they reacting to too. Or they Inept.
All you do is just turn off the service.
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I can't help but think that Recall was some cool proof-of-concept tech demo someone tried messing around with in Microsoft... and then the company decided to make it a major headlining feature without first stopping to ask "but wait, is this actually a good idea in real world use?"
Professional and/or Enterprise versions will have to have an option to disable it due to HIPAA and compliance requirements. Might be worth upgrading your license if you’re running Home.
We don't have to imagine. We watched it in full technicolor when they were planning to build the photo analysis into iCloud. People were freaking out, even though Apple clearly outlined the measures in place that maintained privacy. Microsoft using an SQLite database is pure amateur hour!
Elon needs to buy WinXP and Snow Leopard, update 'em so they are secure for today's world, release them and LEAVE THEM ALONE! So much junk, so little usefulness.
Siri doesn't use the Secure Enclave for learning. They'd likely be using SQLite, too, for that data.
They own FoundationDB, but I haven't seen any reports of them using it in their operating systems, which seems like a missed opportunity.
My question is if Recall is already active on PC's we already own. It says it'll start with new PC's but how about old ones? Which Windows update installed this or will install this? I ask because I just got a new PC with Windows 11 and it already has CoPilot. Is Recall already active if you ran Windows update recently? This is definitely getting turned off.
I can actually see this working out better than expected with the right accessories. Some type of folio that you can flip over onto the bottom screen and it can offer a tactile keyboard and perhaps leave a section available for a touchbar-like controls would be neat. Apple can get the most basic of things wrong sometimes, but they’re usually pretty clever in coming up with ways to make something better or more intuitive than imagined.
Apple and Facebook do it properly and use homomorphic encryption, which lets you perform operations on encrypted data without having to decrypt it. Microsoft should've implemented homosexual encryption as well, or if they did, they should really require user-interaction for decryption of the material.
No.
In fact it's not far after and the story has pretty much fizzled to nothing.
There are so many 'non forum people' that have just never even heard of the debacle too.
Hard the internet being brought down on them.
There's only a Windows 11 because Apple decided to finally move on from Mac OS X. Seriously. That's the whole reason. Microsoft saw that Apple just kept releasing revisions to OS X and because they have no imagination decided to do the same thing. Then Apple quits it and suddenly Microsoft is suddenly introducing Windows 11.
AHAHAHAHA! Like they won't? Sooner or later, AI will be EVERYWHERE, in EVERYTHING. Welcome to "1984"... just 40 years later. The only way to escape it will be to use some obscure OS like Haiku or some tiny Linux distro or something. Maybe not even then...
I wonder if this is one of those features that got pushed by the marketing department and the folks in the security division got overwritten by someone in senior managment. I wouldn't be surprised if this is gone with the first super breach... I definitely can't see a single corporate IT department allowing this into their network.