Privacy
The latest Privacy coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Consumer Reports Demands Free Windows 10 Security Updates Beyond October 2025 — Here’s What It Means for You
On October 14, 2025, Microsoft will stop issuing free security patches for Windows 10. Consumer Reports is now pushing for that deadline to be meaningless for the millions of people who can’t or...
Firefox 143 finally lets you pin websites to the Windows taskbar as apps
{ "title": "Firefox 143 finally lets you pin websites to the Windows taskbar as apps", "content": "On September 16, Mozilla shipped Firefox 143 with a headline feature that Windows power users...
Microsoft’s Copilot Quietly Gets a Memory Setting and Google Drive Link—Here’s How to Take Control
Microsoft has begun rolling out a ‘Manage memory’ toggle inside Copilot and revealed early preparations for a Google Drive connector, according to testers and UI references first reported by...
Google's Alt+Space Overlay Brings Lens, AI Search to Windows. Here's How It Works and What to Watch For.
What’s New Google has released an experimental Windows app that places a compact, floating search bar at your fingertips. The tool, hosted in Google’s Search Labs, can be summoned anytime by...
Microsoft Office Insider Build 2509 Saves New Documents to OneDrive by Default — How to Reclaim Local Storage
Microsoft has started testing a significant change in its Office apps that makes OneDrive the default save location for new documents, coupled with Windows setup prompts that push users toward cloud...
Your Car Will Soon Read Your Emails and Join Teams Calls: What Microsoft’s In-Car Copilot Means for You
Cerence and Microsoft have pulled back the curtain on an in-car agent that directly taps into Microsoft 365, allowing drivers to triage Outlook emails, join Teams meetings, and get calendar-driven...
Microsoft Copilot on Windows 11 Is a Mess of Shortcuts and Store Apps — Here’s How to Take Control
Microsoft’s Copilot is officially a core part of Windows 11, but actually finding it, using it, or getting rid of it is anything but straightforward. Depending on your region, Windows build, and...
How to Learn Microsoft Copilot Faster: 5 Video Resources and a 30-Day Plan That Works
Microsoft’s Copilot assistant is no longer a press-release demo. As of early 2025, it’s sitting right inside your Word, Excel, Outlook, and Teams apps, ready to draft emails, summarize meetings,...
Taming Copilot: A Practical Guide to Reducing AI Overload in Edge and Bing
Microsoft’s AI feature dump in Edge and Bing has left many users feeling like they’ve lost control of their browser. The Copilot sidebar button, AI-powered search suggestions, and Bing’s...
CVPeople Tanzania Seeks IT Supervisors and 23 Technicians for Airport Biometric Rollout
CVPeople Tanzania is simultaneously advertising for an IT Airport Supervisor and more than 20 junior technicians, signaling a deliberate build-up of on-site technical capacity at the country’s...
Microsoft Copilot Can Generate Data Analysis Code – But It’s No Calculator
When Microsoft Copilot writes Python code to crunch your spreadsheet numbers, it delivers a computation, not a guarantee. That distinction, underscored by a recent spate of public demo errors and...
SURF Downgrades but Doesn't Resolve Two High-Risk Privacy Gaps in Microsoft 365 Copilot
Two of the four high privacy risks flagged in Microsoft 365 Copilot’s initial Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) remain only partially addressed, the Dutch education and research network SURF...