Which makes conservatives look gullible. Windows is not taking screenshots of everything I do unless you choose to implement this in the future, and knowledgeable users should know it.
Microsoft’s launching Recall for Copilot Plus PCs, a new Windows 11 tool that keeps track of everything you see and do on your computer and, in return, gives you the ability to search and retrieve anything you’ve done on the device.
If this technology sounds familiar, Microsoft tried something less powerful in Windows 10 with Timeline but discontinued the feature in 2021. It’s also because there’s already a very similar app for Mac called Rewind. The software works on M-series Macs and, like Recall, logs everything you do, listens to all of your meetings, and gives you access to a chatbot to recall anything. With Recall, however, you’re getting deep, native integration into Windows, while Rewind is a third-party app you have to install and hand over system permissions.
Recall won’t work with every Windows 11 computer. You’ll have to buy one of several fresh new “Copilot Plus PCs” powered by Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon X Elite chips, which have the neural processing unit (NPU) required for Recall to work.The minimum hard drive space needed to run Recall is 256 GB, and 50 GB of space must be available.
Source: https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/20/24159258/microsoft-recall-ai-explorer-windows-11-surface-event
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Thanks to daniel1212 for the ping!
I can never quite figure Satya Nadella out. He has made many disturbing statements over the years. They typically turn out to be nothing burgers. Is he the true leader of Microsoft or a figurehead that can be thrown under the bus to satisfy people when Microsoft gets caught with their fingers in the cookie jar? Why don't they use an underling to announce this type of nonsense.
Microsoft and all of the big tech entities want to have as much of your personal information as possible for marketing purposes. But there are obviously other more nefarious possibilities. Taking refuge by switching to Linux or switching to a different type of phone likely has little impact on this type of misbehavior in most cases.
Oracle, IBM, Red Hat, Novell, not to mention Google, Microsoft and many other corporate interests invest heavily in Linux. Almost everything going into the kernels these days is paid, sponsored, or commissioned. Most people like to imagine the work is being done by idealistic computer nerds working for nothing. This is mostly a myth at this point. How many people do you know who like to spend their days working for nothing to fix programming issues. I have never met someone like that, and I have been farting around with digital technology since I was in the 5th grade. When I started... learning how to use a soldering iron was a more important skill than actual programming.
Unlike Microsoft it is much harder to pin down who put in a backdoor when one is actually discovered. Is it a big problem? Probably not, but people have a false sense of security. People know very little about the true origins of most flavors of Linux these days. Reading through the posts on various threads here gives one a pretty good idea of how much people desire to assign blame to the easily identifiable boogie men and want to believe that there is a safe and viable alternative.
Yesterday, I started up a couple of the Ubuntu Studio installations that I hadn't started for a couple of months. They each took hundreds of updates for the operating system and apps installed... and I have not installed that much extra fluff. I have no idea what all those updates were actually for... I just let it do its thing. Windows typically does maybe half a dozen updates if you haven't started the machine in a while.