"If you use a cloud app, your data is being collected & processed for use in #AI. What happens after that? We don't know, but it'd be crazy to assume you'll not be harmed in some way."
-R McNamee
There have been a lot of rumors about Apple working with OpenAI to use ChatGPT in the forthcoming iOS 18 update. However, a new report has revealed that discussions have been going on for the best part of a year, and that has got Microsoft worried about how this could impact its own deal with the AI giant. @9to5Mac has more.
So the Cloud Flow Activity screen in Power Automate has been replaced with the Automation Center preview, which looks great, but is currently not populated with any data (no flow runs listed and all of my stats are 0, despite the fact that my account is running dozens of flows a day). And as far as I can tell there's no way to get back to the old Cloud Flow Activity screen. 🤬
From #Copilot, to #Azure AI and #Prompty, to their developer first focus, leading #GitHub, #VSCode being the long bet that paid off, to the future of a doctor’s bedside manner assisted with AI.
Microsoft is all-in on AI and Build 2024’s discussions and announcements proves it.
The wild thing about #Microsoft using #AI to solve editing PDFs is that everyone always hated having to pay to edit PDFs and we could've all switched to a different document type decades ago. And we all collectively didn't
It pains me to say that some of the complaints about the (horrible) #Microsoft#Recall feature strike me as a bit disingenuous.
Yes, recording conf calls isn't great, but emails and chat messages have always been persisted and indexed.
The "oh no, suddenly every email/message someone sends you is searchable" take seems, ... strange?
Like, my e-mail archive (and most messengers where I could) goes back to the freaking last century, what's new about that?
#Windows users running stupid scanners now contact us for support regarding CVE-2023-46218 which the scanners say affects #curl 8.4.0 shipped by Microsoft.
It would, if their version was built to use #iibpsl, a prereq for this CVE, which #Microsoft does not.
Luke (from #LinusTechTips) made a really good point that I hadn't considered about the new #Microsoft#Recall feature. What about public computers? How many libraries, computer labs or internet cafes are going to be absolute hotbeds for personal data compromise? You know Microsoft will have the feature enabled by default and you know that even if people disable it, they'll randomly re-enable it. What happens on public computers where everyone shares one user account? 1/
Windows 11's upcoming "Recall" feature has a policy setting that empowers IT depts to disable the feature across devices. If disabled:
✅ Any existing Recall snapshots are deleted
✅ Users are prevented from manually enabling the Recall feature
A nerd nostalgia thread of possible #RetroComputing interest:
From 1993-1994, I was a “technical assistant” in the RF Engineering department of #Comcast#Cellular. Back then, Comcast was a scrappy regional cable #TV operator making its first foray into #mobile telephony, not the multinational #telecommunications and media behemoth we know today. (1/6)
I was a twenty-year-old college #dropout who had lucked into the job after the department’s director noticed that his temporary secretary (me) was way better at automating repetitive tasks in #Microsoft Office than typing up memos.
So he hired me outright (neglecting to increase my administrative-assistant-level wage 😖) and set me loose helping the engineers with their Sun #Unix workstations and #Intel#i486-based PCs running #Windows for Workgroups. (2/6)
Anyway, I did what any underpaid college dropout would do:
• ask #IT for a few extra PCs on the LAN
• distribute the #cellular tower data across #Microsoft#Excel workbooks, one per machine
• write some glue macros to exchange data (probably using Network #DDE or #OLEAutomation)
• babysit the PCs as they inevitably crashed every few hours due to #Windows' flaky cooperative multitasking and its #NetBIOS Frames (then called #NetBEUI) networking protocol (6/6)
Every time I install Windows 11 at work, I feel like I've sold off a little more of my soul.
This operating system is one of the biggest privacy disasters to ever be forced upon the world of personal computing.
Seriously, I know it's intimidating, I know computers are complicated, but you need to ditch Microsoft, and Google. They are not your friends. They are using and exploiting our entire population.