Stealing everything you’ve ever typed or viewed on your own Windows PC is now possible with two lines of code — inside the Copilot+ Recall disaster.

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Q. Is this really as harmful as you think?

A. Go to your parents house, your grandparents house etc and look at their Windows PC, look at the installed software in the past year, and try to use the device. Run some antivirus scans. There’s no way this implementation doesn’t end in tears — there’s a reason there’s a trillion dollar security industry, and that most problems revolve around malware and endpoints.

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And from the article in the OP:

I got ahold of the Copilot+ software and got it working on a system without an NPU about a week ago,

They are using that to sell NPU bullshit to the stupid people crazy enough to be excited by it.

Then down the road they'll push it in an update for everyone, I wager.

What even is a NPU, if it’s not necessary for the software to work?

Most of the newer CPU's have an NPU already, Microsoft just set a higher performance requirement for NPUs to be officially labeled an "AI PC" which they are pushing hard.

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