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damn this reddit thread is 3 months old? t1 here as well, and i struggle pretty bad. having been t1 for 20 years or more, i just can't click every article my friends and family sen…

if anything this is a very promising benchmark for the new tech,. we're getting close. so what this means if NPUs are anywhere close to CPUs in the benchmarks is that NPUs are goin…

You dont seriously think MSFT expects this shit to benefit consumers do you? Their datacenters are overheating and the billing meter is still ticking while they burn, they need to …

what are all these folks hoping to accomplish? By crying and starting shit about windows recall, all you did was signal to their shareholders and the financial analysts that window…

i dont think anyone who is well versed in today's threats is saying to the company board members "i mean, really guys, this whole security/risk thing.. all smoke and mirrors... was…

Just so we're all clear, the question about facebook and phones specifically is not new.. 2016: https://qz.com/697923/heres-how-to-stop-facebook-from-listen... https://www.independ…

google search that badboy, my man

So the "Hey siri"/"alexa"/"Ok Google", those features don't show your mic is recording, i dont think. Whether it's TVs or phones. all of the speech recognition and hands free contr…

I promise you there are better ways to manipulate people in this situation. Like a keylogger. That way, your hypothetical LGBTQ child can't evade your monitoring by using an incogn…

would you enable it when interviewing candidates for your team. so when you go to complete your assessment you can go back to something they said or some code they wrote?

current laptop here is late 2023 mb pro with m3 max, and some things i really like about it, but i miss the x64 arc. 2 days ago I needed to run a kali linux vm and i plugged in an …

i think you are wrong. they are trying to convince the average consumer that they need this new laptop with special hardware because they have exclusive magical features (read: OCR…

fine, but that then requires a google chrome sandbox escape or visiting an attacker controlled page, my point was just that the initial claim was rather oversimplified.

i mean... no one is going to convince you of anything if youre speaking of some hypothetical future possibility. But at least acknowledge theyve improved on security. Defender is i…

i get the impression you aren't much aware of the existing ways employers monitor activity of their workforce at scale for both windows and mac users without needing to browse thro…

have you bothered to do any research whatsoever? there are privacy oriented config controls documented in the top hit on google: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/retrace…

i really don't see this being used in the enterprise environment. first off, employees without a need for an NPU probably wont be given one. its like who right now is giving out ha…

thanks for the links. as far as i can telll 38193 is just a priv esc so they need code execution locally first. but the two exploits you linked could possibly be chained together a…

> To help maintain your privacy, Recall processes your content locally on the Copilot+ PC and securely stores it on your device. its an attempt by microsoft to flex about their new…

it really isnt as bad as people on twitter say it is. msft is easy to throw shade at, and a lot of bandwagoning. trust me, im an expert.

linux has had some pretty bad bugs as well. "North Korea" (not sure why you threw that in? are they exploiting this specific vuln ITW?) can only drop this if they can send you pack…

this isn't the case, both are stored. microsoft's website has a number of pages about the feature.

I got downvoted and patronized pretty hard in a thread a while back for pushing back (as much as I dont ever want to defend microsoft). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4059534…

Would you rather your it department have a root cert trust authority installed in your trust chain or recall running? The levels are already astronomical if wanted.

Following this logic you really shouldn’t use Microsoft products. Or Apple. Or google. Or Mozilla. Either way, you are better off with a bug in this dumb as hell feature than you a…