It will be nice to have a built-in markdown reader in windows. Then I can write text files in markdown and know anyone can open and read them properly with a fresh Windows install. This does seem a bit odd, but not as bad as the AI integration, and honestly I'd say it's only bad if it interferes with using Notepad when you're not interested in writing markdown (for example, increasing application start time or making it easy to accidentally add formatting).

1, Microsoft should add an API to allow apps to declare content to be private/non-indexable. At the same time, they should add overrides in Recall so users can choose to force index or force ignore specific apps regardless of how they mark their content. The power should be in the hands of the user. If the user indicates they want to index their Signal activity, it should be done in an unblockable way. Conversely, the default would allow for ignorant users' privacy to be respected. And Signal would not have to engage in unsupported behavior that could potentially break down the line (imagine a future Windows where rendering to Recall and the screen is treated the same to simplify the code base and reduce bugs).

2. When I run software on my PC I am granting it permission to use my property to perform some task. If that program goes off and starts doing other things I may decide it is violating that trust and terminate it. That is my right as a PC owner. Signal is interfering with Recall's operation which doesn't really fit in with its basic premise as a messaging app and if it is not configurable this can be seen as sketchy behavior. Since they have announced this behavior publically it indicates it is not meant to be hidden behavior which does make the behavior more legitimate.

3. Apps should not claim that content that users can see cannot be permanently stored. This is at best naive and at worst a bold-faced lie. For example I could take a picture of my computer screen and Signal would never know. And of course the person being spoken too can remember what has been said. Users who are under the impression that what they say will have no consequences may end up behaving differently than if they were aware of the reality that anything they put "out there" may very well never go away.

I suspect the first questions the court will want answers to are a) why is filing a lawsuit a more reasonable option to you than just turning the feature off and b) why don't you just run one of the many free alternative OSs available, many of which can run a wide array of Windows programs through translation layers? It's a free market.

You can always take a picture with your phone of your monitor and Signal would never know. I think this is the real problem with apps that claim to deliver messages without a trace... they try to hide the reality that if the recipient can view messages, they can save them permanently and there's no way to prevent that. Misleading users isto believing otherwise is unethical.

If io_uring requires root then this is a nothingburger.

Raymond Chen, Microsoft developer, uses the phrase "It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway" to refer to such "exploits".

If you know how AI works... it's basically a computer recreating gameplay based on only videos fed into it of people playing... it's pretty impressive. I walked myself to the beginning of the level, hurt myself with an exploding barrel, and then to the end of the section (where it got stuck on a loading screen; I presume maybe that's the end of this tech demo) and only noticed the AI make one mistake (it fired a shot when I did not press F near the start). It's interesting, and clearly this is not an end result, but a stepping stone to bigger, more interesting things in the future.

I've done a lot of web dev work, you can detect CTRL fine, the problem is the hotkeys. CTRL+D adds a bookmark, CTRL+A selects all text on the page, highlighting it, CTRL+S saves a page to disk, opening a dialog to ask you where. And finally CTRL+W closes the browser tab. You can block CTRL+A but I am not sure if you could block any of the others, definitely not CTRL+W (not without an intrusive "are you sure you want to close" dialog)..

This person's point of view is fairly reasonable, he just didn't realize the judge would be so annoyed by his use of AI and didn't think he needed to disclose it or explain it ahead of time. Considering AI is such a hot button topic perhaps he should have anticipated such a reaction, but it's not an unreasonable mistake to make.

It was shown you can do the same thing with the Run dialog. Get the user to paste something in there where the end of what they pasted looks benign but the beginning has malicious commands. There's only so much you can do to protect users from themselves. In this case, I would also have to ask, how do the LNK files get on the user's machine in the first place? It seems to me that's probably the piece that prevents this from being considered a security issue. As Raymond Chen (Microsoft employee) sometimes quotes Douglas Adams: "It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway." If a machine is already compromised, further "exploits" aren't really security issues at that point.

Microsoft will continue to offer security updates for Windows 10 through their paid support program. $30 per device for individuals for the next year of patches, $61 per device for businesses. It does sound like MS is not committing to more than a year, but it's another option.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Flearn.microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Fwindows%2Fwhats-new%2Fextended-security-updates

Likewise, Microsoft is under no obligation to continue supporting obsolete revisions of their software for a small subset of their users' whims.

Users are free to migrate to Ubuntu or other alternative OSs to ensure they don't run the risk of being stuck on an unpatched, insecure version of Windows.

Reminds me of the time a Coca Cola employee tried to sell company secrets to Pepsi. They ratted on him and the FBI arrested him.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fmedia%2F2006%2Fjul%2F07%2Fmarketingandpr.drink

i am concerned how forcing a sale of Chrome would impact Chrome OS/Chromebooks and Android. In particular Chrome OS IS Chrome, so what happens when Google can no longer legally provide support and updates to brand new Chromebooks?

Yeah I don't know how these forced sales work, but you can be sure some of the bidders will fully intend push updates to all one billion installs to run ads or even worse crypto farmers or malware. Best case sale is probably to Microsoft who is invested in developing Chrome as well through Edge.

Of course that begs the question... if Google can't develop a web browser, why can Microsoft? Why can Apple?

Has a similar, but thankfully not as severe bug, where cheaters can trick other players' games into thinking BattleEye Anti-Cheat needs an update, so it boots them from the session and refuses to let them join another until they restart the game.

Of course there's another exploit to just crash the games of everyone in a session entirely which is the only thing that prevents this from being a big deal.