Recall rush backfires on Microsoft

Windows AI tool ships to testers with huge security blunder, as Apple takes privacy high ground

Microsoft’s rush to embed an all-seeing AI assistant into Windows resulted in the company shipping a product to beta testers that contained huge security flaws, forcing the firm to delay the launch of the flagship feature for the new Copilot+ PCs. Recall was the big announcement from Microsoft’s Build conference in May, with the company keen to further its AI advantage over Apple, which then announced “Apple Intelligence” at WWDC a fortnight later. Recall was hawked as an AI assistant that would let you “retrace your steps” on your PC, with the AI remembering everything you’ve done on the system. It does this by taking a screenshot every few seconds, with the information transcribed into a plain text SQLite database. But as security researchers quickly discovered when Microsoft released test builds of Windows…

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