Privacy
The latest Privacy coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Community Tool Expands Windows 11 Setup Bypass with Advanced Debloat and OOBE Controls
A popular open-source utility that helps users install Windows 11 on unsupported PCs has matured into a full-featured Out-Of-Box Experience (OOBE) toolkit, introducing granular bloat removal,...
Vivaldi Rejects AI as Microsoft, Google, and Anthropic Push Cloud and Data Collection
A wave of product updates and policy shifts this week drew fresh battle lines in the long-running war between user privacy and the convenience of cloud-connected AI. Microsoft quietly made Word’s...
Supercharge Your Classic Outlook with 7 Copilot Tricks — and Avoid These Governance Pitfalls
Microsoft Copilot has quietly woven itself into the classic Outlook desktop client, the very same interface millions of enterprises cling to daily. No forced migration to a new app required. A recent...
Microsoft's New Narrator Braille Viewer Lets Sighted Users See Braille Output—No Hardware Needed
Microsoft just eliminated a persistent barrier for sighted accessibility testers, teachers, and developers who need to follow Narrator’s Braille output. The August 29, 2025, Windows 11 Insider...
Microsoft Edge Canary Upgrades Scareware Blocker with Default-On Scam Site Blocking and URL Sharing
Microsoft has quietly upgraded its experimental Scareware Blocker in Edge Canary to not only interrupt tech-support scams but to block entire scam websites and optionally send detected URLs to...
Microsoft Injects AI into File Explorer and Search in Massive Copilot Update for August 2025
Microsoft has taken its most aggressive step yet to weave generative AI into the fabric of Windows with the August 2025 feature drop for Microsoft 365 Copilot. The update lands not as a single...
Microsoft Sharpens On-Device AI for AMD: Phi Silica 1.2508.906.0 Hits Copilot+ PCs
KB5066127 has landed. The latest component update for Windows 11 24H2 bumps the Phi Silica on-device language model to version 1.2508.906.0 on AMD-powered Copilot+ PCs, Microsoft announced in a...
Microsoft Quietly Tunes On-Device AI with Phi Silica v1.2508.906.0 for Snapdragon Copilot+ PCs
Microsoft has slipped a stealth update onto Qualcomm-powered Copilot+ PCs: KB5066125 upgrades the Phi Silica on-device AI component to version 1.2508.906.0, an automatic behind-the-scenes refinement...
August Windows 11 24H2 Update Brings AI Productivity Tools, Enterprise Backup, and Secure Boot Certificate Deadline
Microsoft’s August non‑security preview for Windows 11, version 24H2—KB5064081 (OS Build 26100.5074)—arrived Friday packing a suite of staged AI features, the general availability of Windows...
Microsoft's MAI-Voice-1 Generates 60 Seconds of Audio in Under a Second, Alongside New Text Model
Sixty seconds of natural-sounding speech, generated in less time than it takes to blink. That’s the headline claim Microsoft is making with MAI-Voice-1, a new speech synthesis model unveiled this...
Adobe Telemetry Service LogTransport2 Causes Windows 11 Shutdown Hangs—Here’s the Fix
A small but infuriating error window that stalls Windows 11 shutdowns has been traced to Adobe’s LogTransport2.exe, a telemetry component bundled with Creative Cloud and Acrobat. PCWorld’s Alaina...
Windows 11 Snipping Tool Adds OCR and Redaction—But Mind the Privacy Risks
Microsoft’s Snipping Tool has quietly become a powerhouse for screen capture, now packing optical character recognition (OCR) and automatic redaction tools into Windows 11. The once-basic utility...