Privacy
The latest Privacy coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Windows 10 Security Updates End October 14, 2025: Your Practical Path Forward
Microsoft’s support clock for Windows 10 will run out on October 14, 2025. After that date, the operating system that still powers hundreds of millions of PCs worldwide will no longer receive free...
Xbox August Update Delivers Play Anywhere Filter and Cross-Device Jump Back In
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Firefox Nightly Adds Native Google Lens, Closing Chrome's Visual Search Lead
Mozilla has started testing a native Google Lens integration in Firefox Nightly, bringing the browser's visual search capabilities in line with Chrome and Edge. The experimental feature, hidden...
Microsoft Finally Adds a Snooze Button for OneDrive's 'Start Backup' Nag in Windows 11 — Plus IT-Friendly App Removal
Microsoft has given Windows 11 users something they’ve been demanding for years: a way to silence the persistent “Start backup” prompt that appears in File Explorer’s address bar, along with...
Google's $19.99 AI Plan Just Got Smarter—and It's Part of a Much Bigger US Monetization Play
Google has quietly folded its upgraded AI note-taking tool, NotebookLM Plus, into the $19.99-per-month Google One AI Premium plan, giving U.S. subscribers immediate access to advanced features like...
ChatGPT Gets Gmail and Calendar Access: OpenAI's Productivity Play Raises Security Flags
OpenAI has quietly breached the walls of Google Workspace. Starting this week, ChatGPT Pro users can grant the AI direct access to their Gmail inboxes, Google Calendars, and Google Contacts—turning...
California Man Sues Microsoft to Halt Windows 10 Support Cutoff, Alleges Coercive AI Strategy
A Southern California resident has filed a state-court lawsuit seeking to force Microsoft to continue providing free security updates for Windows 10 beyond the company’s published end-of-support...
Microsoft Embeds Microsoft 365 Companions into Windows 11 Taskbar, Balancing Convenience and Control
Microsoft is now pushing three lightweight Microsoft 365 companion apps—People, File Search, and Calendar—directly onto the Windows 11 taskbar for eligible business customers, where they...
Windows 12 Vision: Agentic OS That Sees, Hears, and Collaborates via Voice and Screen Awareness
Pavan Davuluri, Microsoft’s head of Windows, has openly described the next major platform evolution as an ambient, multimodal, and agentic operating system that redefines how we interact with PCs....
Audit: 9/10 AI Browser Extensions Leak SSNs, Medical Records, and Bank Details
A new cross-national audit found that nine out of ten popular AI-powered browser assistants silently funnel private data—including social security numbers, medical records, and bank details—from...
OpenAI’s GPT-5 Stage Show Featured Google, But Microsoft Got the Real Enterprise Prize
OpenAI’s much-hyped GPT-5 launch on August 7, 2025, was stagecrafted as a Google-friendly moment. On screen, Gmail and Google Calendar integration showed ChatGPT pulling up emails and scheduling...
I Found My ID Cards in Windows Clipboard History—Here’s How to Wipe It Clean
I nearly fell off my chair when I found screenshots of my ID cards pinned in Windows’ Clipboard history — and that moment is the exact reason I wiped my Clipboard history to protect my identity...