cnet Everything Microsoft Just Announced: Copilot Plus PCs, Surface Pro and Laptop Running on Qualcomm

[UltraMega]

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Copilot will soon have OpenAI's GPT-4o with voice and computer vision, and updated features like editing photos without opening the apps. It will be front and center on your taskbar. 
 

A new Recall feature tracks everything you do and see on your computer for a few days so that you can find anything more easily with natural language queries. For example, the company showed searching for a specific item and Recall pulling up a Discord chat and reading the link. It also serves up suggestions based on what it sees on screen, like Minecraft gaming tips. For gaming, it can redirect the low-power stuff, like recommendations, to the CPU so it doesn't tax the GPU. And eventually a lot of this will work its way into your Xbox. It sounds like having a parent peering over your shoulder when you're at the PC.
 

The Recall intelligence works in all applications: You can pause, stop and delete captured content as well as exclude specific sites from capture. Under the hood, there's a new Copilot runtime API, with more than 40 models.
 

Other features include Live Captions, Cocreator (which seems to pick up where Designer disappeared), for generating images progressively -- you describe it and sketch it, then Cocreator refines it -- image restyling, background removal for both photo and video and so on. And finally, the company has updated its Studio Effects with a few more features, including creative filters and Portrait Light. They will only be available on Copilot Plus PCs. 

Everything Microsoft Just Announced: Copilot Plus PCs, Surface Pro and Laptop Running on Qualcomm (msn.com)

 

 

[schuck6566]

So,I'm just guessing here but it's probably not a good idea to search for ways to hide a body if this things on your comp?

[EHW Ai]

Malwarebytes: Microsoft AI “Recall” feature records everything, secures far less: relevant?

 

 

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This is “Recall,” a much-advertised feature within what Microsoft is calling its “Copilot+ PCs,” a reference to the AI assistant and companion which the company released in late 2023. With Recall on the new Copilot+ PCs, users no longer need to manage and remember their own browsing and chat activity. Instead, by regularly taking and storing screenshots of a user’s activity, the Copilot+ PCs can comb through that visual data to deliver answers to natural language questions...

 

 

 

Edited May 27 by iamjanco

[UltraMega]

I've got to imagine there is more at play here behind the scenes than windows simply storing a bunch of unencrypted screenshots locally that can potentially show sensitive information, because that would indeed be stupid. 

[EHW Ai]

I'm pretty sure the snapshots themselves are encrypted, but...

 

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in terms of security, that’s about all users will get, as Recall will not detect and obscure passwords, shy away from recording pornographic material, or turn a blind eye to sensitive information.

 

According to Microsoft:

 

“Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers. That data may be in snapshots that are stored on your device, especially when sites do not follow standard internet protocols like cloaking password entry.”

 

 

[schuck6566]

10 hours ago, UltraMega said:

I've got to imagine there is more at play here behind the scenes than windows simply storing a bunch of unencrypted screenshots locally that can potentially show sensitive information, because that would indeed be stupid. 

lol,Wait,Microsoft do something stupid? Windows Me,Vista Basic,Windows 8,....

[Kaz]

O&Oshutup10++ makes it really easy to disable stuff like copilot.  When I first read about it I went looking for settings to disable it, except I couldn't find any because it was already neutered.

 

Recall is a HUGE attack vector and it's amazing that the ever growing drive for data continues to ignore security.  I can't help but remember how during the Windows XP days, system restore was used by viruses to restore themselves on unsuspecting victims.  Recall is going to do so much more than system restore every could.  I guarantee the average user won't realize they need to tell Recall not to record banking information or e-mail accounts.

 

Nothing every goes wrong with Microsoft 'features' right? 

Kaspersky uncovers new BitLocker-abusing ransomware

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I need to give up on Windows and just accept that I can't play certain games.

Edited May 28 by Kaz
Typo correction

[Kaz]

On 27/05/2024 at 11:14, iamjanco said:

I'm pretty sure the snapshots themselves are encrypted, but...

 

 

 

Encrypted how?  Who decides what the key/passphrase is or where it's stored and when it's unlocked?  Bitlocker/TPM can be bypassed because the communication between processor and TPM module is sent in plain text...  This can be corrected by requiring a pin to unlock TPM, but that setting needs to be changed in the group policies.  AKA it's ignored by almost everyone. 

 

[EHW Ai]

1 hour ago, Kaz said:

Encrypted how?  Who decides what the key/passphrase is or where it's stored and when it's unlocked?

 

 

Maybe check with, uh, CoPilot for the answer to that? /sarc.

 

[Sir Beregond]

18 hours ago, schuck6566 said:

lol,Wait,Microsoft do something stupid? Windows Me,Vista Basic,Windows 8,....

8 got a lot of hate but honestly 8.1 Pro was an absolutely solid OS.

 

Anyway, not a fan of these screenshots for recall at all.

[schuck6566]

yeah, I want this kinda thing being saved by my OS if 1 of my grandaughters has an abusive boyfriend later in life who ends up going missing..... 

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