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When Microsoft announced its new AI features for AI PCs, I told you that Windows 11's Recall is the feature I've always wanted from AI devices but that it's also terrifying. Windows 11 Recall will let ...

There is perhaps nothing that has plagued the electronics consumer quite as much as bloatware. It’s omnipresent in most modern operating systems and products, whether it’s extra stuff on Android ...

Microsoft Defender (previously Windows Defender) has been a part of the Windows operating system since the early 2000s, with Microsoft improving and iterating on it up to the present — and presumably ...