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Microsoft is finally ready to roll out its controversial Recall feature

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Last year, Microsoft announced one of its most interesting and controversial features in years: Recall. This Windows 11 function was supposed to help you remember everything you were doing on your PC in the past by consistently screenshotting your activity. However, even though the company said it didn’t access user data and would remain safe…

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Microsoft at 50: Enterprise IT for the masses

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Formed in 1975, Microsoft is currently celebrating its 50th anniversary, having powered the personal computing revolution first with MS-DOS, and then with Windows. In the 1980s, it demonstrated – thanks to the IBM Project Chess, one of the first personal computers – that business computing could be accessed by anyone and wasn’t simply a task…

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The end is near for Windows 10 and Microsoft won’t let you forget it

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If you’re still using Windows 10, Microsoft wants to make sure you know that time is running out. The company has officially started emailing users with a not-so-subtle reminder that support for Windows 10 will end on October 14, 2025. The message is clear: upgrade now or risk being left behind.The email was recently spotted…

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UK government under fire over public sector guidance on using overseas clouds

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The government stands accused of sending mixed messages about its commitment to positioning the UK as a technology superpower, after publishing guidance that will pave the way for more public sector bodies to host their workloads and applications in overseas cloud environments. The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology’s (DSIT’s) overseas data guidance dropped on…

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Nvidia’s rumored CPU could pack integrated GPU to rival RTX 4070 mobile – should AMD and Intel start to worry now?

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Nvidia APU rumored to equal RTX 4070 laptop GPU in performanceLaptops are already being made with the APU, including from AlienwareThe Arm-based APU could outgun AMD’s Strix Halo by miles for efficiencyNvidia’s apparent plan to make an Arm-based CPU for PCs – in conjunction with MediaTek – raised some eyebrows, certainly, and now we’re hearing…

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Innovation, insight and influence: the CISO playbook for 2025 and beyond

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As 2024 comes to a close and we reach the midpoint of a decade that might generously be described as having so far been ‘turbulent’, I’d like to inject a note of positivity regarding the outlook for the second half of the 2020s.  Before you dismiss me as naïve or irrationally optimistic, please hear me…

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A jobseeker’s guide to using AI and what it means for employers

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is a powerful tool to help jobseekers find roles and make their applications, with ever more people using it. Multiple published surveys have suggested this figure could be as high as 50% of applicants. But while AI is undoubtedly a great support tool, it can create issues if individuals use it to…

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Top 10 police technology stories of 2024

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Throughout 2024, UK government and law enforcement rhetoric around technology largely focused on the role of automation in reducing cost while boosting efficiency and productivity. Since the ascent of the new Labour government in July, there has also been a renewed focus on law and order given its manifesto commitment to “take back our streets”.…

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Navigating the practicalities of AI regulation and legislation

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Misusing artificial intelligence (AI) can have some very clear and expensive consequences. Movie studio Lionsgate recently joined a long list of organisations discovering that quotations and citations from generative AI (GenAI) systems need to be verified like any other source; Microsoft is being sued by a German journalist after Bing Copilot suggested he had committed crimes…

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Microsoft Recall still captures SSNs, passwords, and more

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Microsoft had to recall the Recall AI feature on Copilot+ Windows PCs earlier this year. In theory, Recall was supposed to be a great AI trick to quickly resurface information from your past activities on a computer. In practice, it turned out to be a privacy and security nightmare.Researchers proved that Recall data could be…

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