Telemetry
The latest Telemetry coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
How to Reclaim Your Privacy: Disabling Windows 11's Telemetry, Ad ID, and App Permissions
Microsoft ships Windows 11 with multiple data-collection mechanisms enabled by default, feeding everything from crash reports to behavioral patterns back to its servers. But a closer look at the...
Windows 11 Dark Mode Finally Tackles File Dialog Flashbangs in New Preview Build
Microsoft’s long‑standing dark‑mode headache—blinding white file operation dialogs—is getting a long‑overdue remedy in the latest Windows 11 preview builds. Released to the Release...
Windows Telemetry Under the Microscope: 10 Critical Privacy Tweaks You Must Apply
Windows ships with sensible defaults—and a surprising number of questionable ones. A recent MakeUseOf roundup of “10 Windows settings I never leave on default” offers a practical checklist for...
NFL Arms Coaches with Microsoft Copilot and Surface Copilot+ for Real-Time Game Intelligence
The NFL is putting a conversational AI assistant directly into the hands of coaches and scouts on the sideline, marking the first time generative AI will be used in real-time during live games. In a...
Microsoft Hastens Control Panel Deprecation in Windows 11 Canary Build 27928 Ahead of Windows 10 Sunset
Microsoft shipped Windows 11 Canary Build 27928 to Insiders on August 20, 2025, and with it came a small avalanche of migrated controls—the latest in a years-long campaign to extinguish the classic...
Copilot Audit Bypass: Microsoft's Silent Patch Leaves Log Integrity in Question
A routine prompt tweak—adding “do not include a link”—is all it takes to make Microsoft Copilot quietly access and summarize sensitive files without generating the audit record that...
Microsoft’s Copilot Arrives on NFL Sidelines: The High-Stakes Bet on AI Speed vs. Reliability
Microsoft and the NFL have locked in a multiyear extension that pushes their decade-old partnership firmly into AI-first territory. The deal embeds Microsoft Copilot, Azure AI, and a broad deployment...
Color-Coded Battery Icons Hit Windows 11 Canary as Settings Migration Continues
Microsoft’s latest Canary build 27802 lands with a small but impactful usability upgrade: a battery icon that finally shows color and an optional percentage readout, ending years of squinting at a...
Microsoft Quietly Patches Copilot Audit-Log Bypass, Keeps Customers in the Dark
Security researchers have uncovered a critical blind spot in Microsoft’s Purview audit logging for Copilot: certain prompts can retrieve sensitive file contents without leaving any trace in audit...
Windows 11 Canary Build 27928 Forces Microsoft Account Setup as Copilot Gets Voice Boost
Microsoft’s latest Canary test build for Windows 11, version 27928, lands with a quiet but contentious policy change: it removes a long-used command-line workaround that allowed users to skip...
Microsoft Disables Battery Icon Revamp in Windows 11 Canary Build 27928 to Reassess User Feedback
Microsoft's August 20, 2025 release of Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27928 to the Canary Channel delivers a compact but instructive lesson in how the company balances rapid experimentation with...
Heavy Writes Cause SSDs to Vanish After Windows 11 KB5063878 Update
Microsoft and SSD controller designer Phison are jointly investigating a serious storage regression introduced by the August 2025 cumulative update for Windows 11 24H2 (KB5063878, OS Build...