Windows 11’s AI features like Copilot and Recall can affect performance and privacy, but disabling them helps you regain ...

Microsoft’s controversial Windows Recall has now been generally released, and it poses as much of a risk to your privacy as it could be a boon to your productivity. Recall is just one of several new ...

Microsoft didn’t release a major new version of Windows in 2025, but it did deliver a lot of significant updates. Here's my ...

TL;DR: Microsoft's new AI-powered Recall tool for Copilot+ PCs offers secure, opt-in PC usage history navigation with local data processing, encryption, and privacy controls. Alongside enhanced AI ...

Besides the botched roll out and lack of trust, who actually wants this? It's yet another AI thing shoehorned into something no one asked for because these companies have to try and create use cases ...

TL;DR: The Brave web browser now blocks Microsoft's Recall feature by default to better protect user privacy, with AdGuard also following in its footsteps (albeit not shutting out Recall by default).

Signal has updated its desktop app to prevent Microsoft's new Recall feature from capturing chat content, escalating the privacy backlash facing Windows 11. The encrypted messaging service you may ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about security, surveillance and privacy. It is the most controversial update in years — and we are just at the ...

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 ...

Microsoft’s Windows 11 creates System Restore points, that is, snapshots of your PC’s system files, settings and registry. But those points expire and are automatically deleted after 60 days, ...

Windows 10 wasn’t perfect; these examples of what it did right are cherry-picked. But part of the operating system’s ...