Daily Tech News 22 August 2024

• Microsoft is planning to try again with its obviously insane Windows "Total" Recall spyware system. (Ars Technica)
  
  This is the feature - key to the so-called Copilot Plus platform - that takes screenshots of everything you do on your computer - passwords, bank account details, confidential emails - and puts them in a single conveniently labelled and indexed box for AI assistants and Russian/Chinese/North Korean/Iranian hackers to search for you.
  
  The database will now require you to log in with Windows Hello to access it, where before it was an all-you-can-eat data buffet for any application running on your computer.

  "Security continues to be our top priority and when Recall is available for Windows Insiders in October we will publish a blog with more details," reads today's update to Microsoft Windows and Devices Corporate Vice President Pavan Davuluri's blog post.

  The lie detector detected that that was a lie.
  
  Fortunately - for now - this won't function at all unless you have a new CPU with a neural processing unit capable of at least 40 trillion operations per second. Desktop processors - even brand new ones like AMD's Ryzen 9950X - don't have that.  

• But what could possibly go wrong oh there's another critical vulnerability in Microsoft's Copilot Studio AI platform. (Dark Reading)
  
  Huh.
  
  
  
• Crowdstrike is mad that its competitors are making fun of its extinction-level own goal. (Ars Technica)
  
  I'm sure they are.
  
  
  
• QNAP... Has added active monitoring for ransomware to the latest version of its QTS operating system. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  If anything strange is detected it can be configured to back up your files on the spot or make your whole disk read-only so nothing can be changed.
  
  It's not to protect you from data theft, but from hackers destroying your data.
  
  
  
• Intel's next generation Arrow Lake desktop CPUs and motherboards are expected October 17. (WCCFTech)
  
  Most important question is, do these actually work?
  
  Second most important question is of course, can you roast an entire ox on one in under fifteen minutes.
  
  We shall see.

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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