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TOTAL RECALL That groan you hear is users’ reaction to Recall going back into Windows Snapshotting and AI processing a screen every 3 seconds. What could possibly go wrong? Dan Goodin – Apr 11, 2025 2:45 pm | 57 The Recall feature as it currently exists in Windows 11 24H2 preview builds. Credit: Andrew Cunningham The Recall feature as it currently exists in Windows 11 24H2 preview builds. Credit: Andrew Cunningham Story text Size Small Standard Large Width * Standard Wide Links Standard Orange * Subscribers only   Learn more Security and privacy advocates are girding themselves for another uphill battle against Recall, the AI tool rolling out in Windows 11 that will screenshot, index, and store everything a user does every three seconds. When Recall was first introduced in May 2024, security practitioners roundly castigated it for creating a gold mine for malicious insiders, criminals, or nation-state spies if they managed to gain even brief administrative access to a Windows device. Privacy advocates warned that Recall was ripe for abuse in intimate partner violence settings. They also noted that there was nothing stopping Recall from preserving sensitive disappearing content sent through privacy-protecting messengers such as Signal. Enshittification at a new scale Following months of backlash, Microsoft later suspended Recall. On Thursday, the company said it was reintroducing Recall. It currently is available only to insiders with access to the Windows 11 Build 26100.3902 preview version. Over time, the feature will be rolled out more broadly. Microsoft officials wrote: Recall (preview)* saves you time by offering an entirely new way to search for things you’ve seen or done on your PC securely. With the AI capabilities of Copilot+ PCs, it’s now possible to quickly find and get back to any app, website, image, or document just by describing its content. To use Recall, you will need to opt-in to saving snapshots, which are images of your activity, and enroll in Windows Hello to confirm your presence so only you can access your snapshots. You are always in control of what snapshots are saved and can pause saving snapshots at any time. As you use your Copilot+ PC throughout the day working on documents or presentations, taking video calls, and context switching across activities, Recall will take regular snapshots and help you find things faster and easier. When you need to find or get back to something you’ve done previously, open Recall and authenticate with Windows Hello. When you’ve found what you were looking for, you can reopen the application, website, or document, or use Click to Do to act on any image or text in the snapshot you found. Microsoft is hoping that the concessions requiring opt-in and the ability to pause Recall will help quell the collective revolt that broke out last year. It likely won’t for various reasons. First, even if User A never opts in to Recall, they have no control over the setting on the machines of Users B through Z. That means anything User A sends them will be screenshotted, processed with optical character recognition and Copilot AI, and then stored in an indexed database on the other users’ devices. That would indiscriminately hoover up all kinds of User A's sensitive material, including photos, passwords, medical conditions, and encrypted videos and messages. As Privacy Guides writer Em wrote on Mastodon: This feature will unfortunately extract your information from whatever secure software you might have used and store it on this person's computer in a possibly less secure way. Of course this person could manually take a screenshot of all of this anyway, but this feature makes it that even a well-intentioned person might either not be aware it is on, or might wrongly assume it is secure enough. This feature isn't fully released yet, but it might be soon. The presence of an easily searchable database capturing a machine’s every waking moment would also be a bonanza for others who don’t have users’ best interests at heart. That level of detailed archival material will undoubtedly be subject to subpoena by lawyers and governments. Threat actors who manage to get their spyware installed on a device will no longer have to scour it for the most sensitive data stored there. Instead they will mine Recall just as they do browser databases storing passwords now. Microsoft didn’t immediately respond to a message asking why it’s reintroducing Recall less than a year after the feature got such a chilly reception. For critics, Recall is likely to remain one of the most pernicious examples of enshittification, the recently minted term for the shoehorning of unwanted AI and other features into existing products when there is negligible benefit to users. Dan Goodin Senior Security Editor Dan Goodin Senior Security Editor Dan Goodin is Senior Security Editor at Ars Technica, where he oversees coverage of malware, computer espionage, botnets, hardware hacking, encryption, and passwords. In his spare time, he enjoys gardening, cooking, and following the independent music scene. Dan is based in San Francisco. Follow him at here on Mastodon and here on Bluesky. Contact him on Signal at DanArs.82. 57 Comments

The control room at quantum computer start-up QuantinuumQuantinuum The US military has launched an effort to determine who may be able to build a truly useful quantum computer within a decade, and what it may be good for. There are more than six dozen companies currently building quantum computers, but it is far from clear which of them will eventually produce devices that have a concrete impact on American industries and the economy. The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has now started a programme to find out.

Donald Trump has made stops at local pizza restaurants for many a campaign event over the years — as pictured above at Arcaro and Genell in Old Forge, Pennsylvania, on August 20, 2020. Now Trump Tower has a pizza stone of its own. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images 2025-04-12T01:28:14Z Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Donald Trump quietly opened a pizza parlor at Trump Tower in New York City. The food has been a focal point of his career and political campaigns. The parlor's opening makes Trump the first known president to own a pizza joint while in office. Donald Trump's love story with pizza entered its latest chapter as the president quietly opened a pizza parlor at Trump Tower in New York City.Trump Pizza is "where New York tradition meets Italian craftsmanship," according to a Tuesday post on the Trump Tower Instagram page. It also makes Trump the first known president to own a pizza parlor while in office.The new pizza parlor, first pointed out by Emily Sundberg in her "Feed Me" Substack, appears to be part of a recently completed renovation of Trump Cafe, one of the restaurants located within Trump Tower. The oven in the Instagram photo showcases the signature white marble and gold aesthetic that Trump has become known for over the years, as well as several of the restaurant's offerings: pepperoni, a sausage and pepper combination pie, and what appears to be a classic Margherita with tomato, mozzarella, and basil.While a full menu following the upgrades is not yet available online, Business Insider has previously reported dining options at Trump Tower are pricey — and a little lackluster.The Cafe was closed at the time of publication. A receptionist at Trump's 45 Wine and Whiskey Bar told Business Insider that they did not know the cost of a slice at the Cafe.Representatives for the White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.For decades, pizza has been a focal point of Trump's career and political campaigns; indeed, pizza and politics have long gone slice-in-hand.Many politicians, Trump included, have made campaign stops at local pizza parlors in an effort to sway blue-collar voters. They have regularly made headlines when being caught eating a slice with a knife and fork or being seen delivering pies to hardworking civil servants. On several occasions dating back nearly 30 years, Trump has publicly declared his love for the tasty Italian offering, including in a 1995 Pizza Hut commercial in which Trump and his then-wife, Ivana, negotiated a deal to eat their pizza the "wrong way" (crust first) to promote new stuffed crust options at the franchise.However, his preferred method for enjoying a cheesy slice remains unclear. After being lambasted on The Daily Show for stacking several slices on top of each other and cutting individual bites away with a fork, the food journalism outlet Serious Eats reported that Trump said he preferred no crust at all."This way you can take the top of the pizza off, you're not just eating the crust," Serious Eats reported he said. "I like not to eat the crust so that we keep the weight down at least as good as possible."But, no matter how you slice it, it was just a matter of time before Trump had a pizza stone to call his own. Recommended video

On Thursday, the Supreme Court ordered the Trump administration to bring back Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man it had sent to a notorious Salvadoran mega-prison in what the government has conceded was an “administrative error.” Not one of the justices dissented from that ruling. The justices sent the case back to the federal trial court. The court asked for information by Friday morning on Abrego Garcia’s whereabouts and what steps the government has taken and will take going forward to facilitate his return. But the government came up empty-handed. Its lawyers said they couldn’t provide that information on time, effectively defying the court’s order. “Foreign affairs cannot operate on judicial timelines, in part because it involves sensitive country-specific considerations wholly inappropriate for judicial review,” they wrote in a court filing.Essentially, the administration is saying it can’t deliver information on Abrego Garcia on time because he is in the custody of a foreign government, and that facilitating his return may require sensitive foreign policy considerations. The US is paying the Salvadoran government to imprison hundreds of deportees, 90 percent of whom have no criminal record. But immigration law experts said that foreign policy cannot justify the Trump administration’s failure to return Abrego Garcia.“The idea that somehow this is something other than just picking up the phone and saying, ‘Get this guy back here,’ is absolute poppycock,” said Paul Wickham Schmidt, a retired immigration judge and professor at Georgetown University Law Center. “The idea that this is some sort of sensitive foreign relations is BS.”This is the second time that the Trump administration has effectively ignored a court order. The first time, it refused to turn around deportation flights headed to El Salvador midair, arguing that US federal courts had no authority outside the US.On Friday afternoon, the judge ordered the administration to provide daily updates on its plan to bring Abrego Garcia back — as the government slow-walks an order to return a man it, by its own admission, put in grave danger via an “administrative error.”Where is Kilmar Abrego Garcia?The Trump administration’s reluctance to provide any information about Abrego Garcia raises serious concerns about his safety.In 2019, an immigration judge granted Abrego Garcia relief from deportation to El Salvador because he faced the risk of being targeted by gangs. Though the government has accused him of being a member of the MS-13 gang, that was never proven in court. The prison where he was sent is known as a “legal black hole” and the site of numerous documented human rights abuses. The US has sent more than 200 people there.“If the government is now refusing to acknowledge that he is somewhere in that country, that’s suspicious,” said César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández, a professor at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law and author of several books on US immigration enforcement, including Welcome the Wretched. “It’s alarming to see the Justice Department refuse to even acknowledge that he is there or anywhere else on the face of the earth.”Why the government’s stonewalling should worry everyoneThe government’s actions are part of a larger picture of attacks on the rule of law, Schmidt said. “They’re targeting law firms that represent people against the government,” he said. “They’re defunding legal services. They’re putting people in obscure locations. They’re compromising the immigration courts.”There’s no telling how far protections for civil liberties could unravel from here, García Hernández said. A recent Supreme Court ruling doesn’t provide much assurance: The justices found that the Trump administration could not deport people like Abrego Garcia to El Salvador under an obscure, 18th-century law without allowing them the opportunity to challenge their deportations in a US court. But that assumes that those targeted have access to legal counsel, and that’s hard to come by in some of the remote areas where they have been detained.While the Trump administration might now be targeting unsympathetic figures — people it accuses of ties to gangs — that might give way to broader assaults on individual rights.“They made it quite clear that they’re not just targeting people who present some kind of risk of bodily harm to those of us who live in the United States,” García Hernández said. “They’re also targeting people who they think present an ideological risk. And there’s no clear endpoint to that logic.”See More:

Get a head start on planning your journey to Epic Universe—and figure out what you’re going to wear while you’re at it. The Universal Orlando Resort’s newest theme park is set to open in May and the elements you’ll encounter, from monsters to dragons to the Florida heat, should influence your style and level of comfort. Before you embark on a journey through new and exciting portals to Super Nintendo World, the Isle of Berk from How to Train Your Dragon, the Universal Monsters Dark Universe, and more, we’ve curated this guide to ensure you pop out in pop culture essentials. Official merch is available now online and at licensed retailers, so no matter which epic fandom you favor, you can pull your look together in plenty of time. This guide is a reminder to go at your own pace but also try to be prepared… and I need this advice for myself, too. © BoxLunch The two mall mainstays that come to mind first, especially if you need a quick turnaround on sizing and comfort, are BoxLunch and Hot Topic. Being able to check a website and see if inventory is available for pick-up at your local shop is far less stressful than ordering online and hoping your items will fit when they eventually arrive. We’ve all been there and it’s not ideal if packing gives you anxiety (raises hand). Even if you put things off, you can just go to the mall to visit your local coven at HT or explore the fandom wares at BoxLunch. They’ve even got some recent selections inspired by the Universal Monsters, Nintendo, and How to Train Your Dragon that are perfectly suited for the trip. Having options with buttons you can open or peel off to air that humid sweat away is very important. RSVLTS is fantastic for fashion with endurance against the elements and this Creature From the Black Lagoon-inspired polo is a great fandom-bounding option if you want to look dressed up like the Gill-man. Otherwise, outfits paying homage to Universal Monsters with capes and robes can be tricky because you don’t want to get heatstroke at a new theme park, especially if you’re lucky enough to nab tickets during its opening summer. Thankfully you can channel the Bride of Frankenstein and the Monster with Hot Topic selections like this short-sleeve tee and a femme option for Gill-man fans. Since breathable clothes are a must, this Toothless Baseball jersey with a scale design is a good option and a part of very gender-neutral selections at BoxLunch, which also include exclusive Nightfury accessories from Loungefly. And for your Mario party there’s cute accessories and tops. © Universal Orlando Resorts What’s really neat is that even Epic Universe’s official merchandise is also available to nab in advance. At least with going this route, if a size doesn’t work and you don’t realize it until you’re in Florida, as long as you have your proof of purchase you can probably exchange it at Universal. The selection is not entirely what’s available at the theme parks as of previews, but still very solid especially when it comes to theming. In particular the How to Train Your Dragon selection is extensive with cosplay lite Toothless hats, fashionable attire for women, men, and children plus water bottle holders. I know that sounds odd to cape for cozy drinkware sleeves but these have cute designs, like this Toothless one, and can hang off strollers. I use one of mine from Universal for that specifically while taking my kiddo to the parks so I don’t have to buy the expensive drink cup attachment. ©Universal Orlando Resorts The widest selection of pre-arrival shopping I would say is the Universal Monsters. The Dark Universe branded character re-designs of Dracula and friends are going to be a hot commodity. I’d say grab some of the official apparel and accessories now because they might be sold out when you get there. There’s a market for flippers that raid the newly branded merch, which can put a damper on a first visit if you were hoping to get something “Dark Universe” branded, only to find it’s all gone. So get it while you can if the item you were looking for is available online already. This Bride of Frankenstein hair bucket hat, cute monsters steel tumbler, and Baby Dracula backpack are too clever—I don’t trust them still being there come May. And then there’s the parks-exclusive Super Nintendo World official releases which are as close to the real Nintendo store as we can get, so don’t miss out on the newest arrivals. Epic Universe opens May 22; for more information and tickets visit here. Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel, Star Wars, and Star Trek releases, what’s next for the DC Universe on film and TV, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who.

Black holes — the supermassive gravitation forces at the center of most galaxies — actually spend much of their time dormant, or essentially asleep. Astronomers have now spotted one not only waking up but appearing to hit the celestial equivalent of a snooze button every few days. The black hole at the center of a galaxy named SDSS1335+0728, about 300 million light-years away, first showed signs of stirring when, in 2019, the galaxy started shining brightly. But since 2024, that black hole the astronomers nicknamed “Ansky” started producing X-ray bursts at regular intervals — almost as if Ansky was stretching, then going back to sleep for a bit, according to a paper in the journal Nature Astronomy. Rare Black Hole AwakeningObserving a black hole rising into action is relatively rare. Capturing the regular bursts of energy called quasiperiodic eruptions (QPEs) is rarer still. “And this is the first time we have observed such an event in a black hole that seems to be waking up,” Lorena Hernández-García, an astronomer at Valparaiso University, Chile, and an author of the paper, said in a press release.They certainly have a good view. Multiple X-ray space telescopes are checking in on Ansky, including XMM-Newton and NASA’s NICER, Chandra, and NASA’s Swift. After the first observed emission, they consulted archive data from another instrument but didn’t find any evidence of earlier emissions. Understanding Black Hole MechanicsThese observations could alter understandings of how black holes work — or, at least, what causes QPEs. Conventional wisdom is that a black hole’s powerful gravity sucks in any object that dares venture too close, then rips that matter apart. That captured matter then spreads into a hot, bright, rapidly spinning flat circular object called an accretion disc.QPEs are thought to occur when another object — say a star or a smaller black hole — interacts with that disc. But so far, there is no evidence that Ansky has destroyed a star.The astronomers who first captured and are now monitoring Ansky’s behavior are now considering other scenarios. For instance, the disc could be formed by gas captured by the flares that would be coming from shocks in the disc, caused by a small celestial object repeatedly traveling through — thus disrupting the orbiting material.Brighter, Longer BurstsThere are other clues that Ansky’s bursts aren’t produced by conventionally understood forces. Ansky’s periodic X-ray bursts last 10 times longer and shine 10 times brighter than a typical QPE.“For QPEs, we’re still at the point where we have more models than data, and we need more observations to understand what's happening,” Erwan Quintin, a European Space Agency research fellow and an author of the study, said in a press release. “We thought that QPEs were the result of small celestial objects being captured by much larger ones and spiraling down towards them. Ansky’s eruptions seem to be telling us a different story.”Astronomers will try to better understand that story by watching the rare phenomenon unfold. Future ESA missions may also help the astronomers learn more about the gravitational waves associated with the X-ray bursts.Article SourcesOur writers at Discovermagazine.com use peer-reviewed studies and high-quality sources for our articles, and our editors review for scientific accuracy and editorial standards. Review the sources used below for this article:Before joining Discover Magazine, Paul Smaglik spent over 20 years as a science journalist, specializing in U.S. life science policy and global scientific career issues. He began his career in newspapers, but switched to scientific magazines. His work has appeared in publications including Science News, Science, Nature, and Scientific American.

Nature, Published online: 09 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08786-6A large-scale photonic accelerator comprising more than 16,000 components integrated on a single chip to process MAC operations is described, demonstrating ultralow latency and reduced computing time compared with a commercially available GPU.

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Dave Miragliotta showed us the working process behind the Door Hatch project, discussing creating its shapes, rivets, and vents using Substance 3D Designer's nodes and rendering in Marmoset Toolbag.Read: https://80.lv/articles/creating-a-tech-inspired-door-hatch-material-in-substance-3d/