{"id":541027,"date":"2024-06-14T08:42:20","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T06:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=541027"},"modified":"2024-06-14T08:42:20","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T06:42:20","slug":"microsofts-new-ai-tool-withdrawn-from-general-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/541027-microsofts-new-ai-tool-withdrawn-from-general-release.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft&#8217;s new AI tool withdrawn from general release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft, facing scrutiny over the security of its products, is withdrawing a new artificial intelligence feature of its Windows software for new personal computers from broad release and instead will test it with a smaller group.<\/p>\n<p>Recall, a Windows feature\u00a0unveiled\u00a0in May, creates a record of everything people do on their PCs \u2014 an approach that\u2019s intended to make it easier to handle tasks such as sorting through emails or searching files.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft planned to release Recall broadly on June 18, but said it will now be available in the coming weeks only in the Windows Insider Program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are adjusting the release model for Recall to leverage the expertise of the Windows Insider community to ensure the experience meets our high standards for quality and security,\u201d the company said Thursday in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.windows.com\/windowsexperience\/2024\/06\/07\/update-on-the-recall-preview-feature-for-copilot-pcs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blog post<\/a>\u00a0on its website.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFollowing receiving feedback on Recall from our Windows Insider Community, as we typically do, we plan to make Recall (preview) available for all Copilot+ PCs coming soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Security researchers criticized Recall almost immediately after its introduction, saying that bad actors could access and scoop up records that are gathered by the tool and stored locally on a user\u2019s PC.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft\u00a0reacted\u00a0by saying Recall would be shipped in the \u201coff\u201d position, meaning PC owners would have to choose to use the feature.<\/p>\n<p>Additional security measure would be needed before Recall could be activated, the company said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is withdrawing a new artificial intelligence feature of its Windows software for new personal computers from broad release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341034,"featured_media":511218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[92837,16],"tags":[11941,123,95425],"class_list":["post-541027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai","category-software","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-microsoft","tag-microsoft-recall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541027"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":541031,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541027\/revisions\/541031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}