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My go-to video editor, and one of Microsoft's best-kept secrets, is about to get a big AI boost through Copilot
By Sean Endicott published
AI FTW Microsoft Copilot will soon support following a prompt to create a video project in Clipchamp. The new feature should simplify content creation and help jumpstart new projects.

PowerToys' latest update is small but it's the latest chapter in an excellent year for the app
By Sean Endicott published
Update time Microsoft PowerToys has a new update that fixes several problems. The update rounds out a solid seven months for the oft-updated utility.

Microsoft removes ads from Skype but leaves them in Windows 11's Start menu
By Kevin Okemwa published
Ad-free Windows?🫠 The new update also brings OneAuth integration to Skype for iOS and revamps the AI image creator experience on Skype Desktop.

Microsoft wants to make future CrowdStrike outages impossible, and it could mean big changes for security software
By Sean Endicott published
Zero trust In response to the recent CrowdStirke outage, Microsoft appears to be interested in moving away from allowing security apps to have kernel access on Windows 11.

Elon Musk calls Grok 'the most powerful AI by every metric' but 'secretly' trains the new model with your X data by default
By Kevin Okemwa published
DO BETTER X (formerly Twitter) quietly rolled out a new data-sharing experience that is enabled by default and uses your data to train Grok.

Firefox and Meta develop a mechanism that promises to keep the user's data private in an unyielding ad world
By Kevin Okemwa published
GUARANTEED PRIVACY Firefox might have found the perfect balance between aggressive advertising and maintaining the user's privacy.

Google reverses its stance on deprecating third-party cookies in Chrome, but users get an option to disable the 'crumbs'
By Kevin Okemwa published
MORE COOKIES Google has changed its mind about its privacy sandbox on Chrome, and will keep supporting cookies.

Is this a handy new feature or another Windows 11 ad?
By Sean Endicott published
You decide Windows Insiders will now see suggested content within the search section of the Microsoft Store, but is that a helpful tool or another Windows 11 ad?

NordVPN will soon work on Qualcomm Snapdragon X PCs, closing a big part of the Windows on Arm app gap
By Sean Endicott published
An Arm-native version of NordVPN is in its final stages of testing.

Apple throws critical privacy jabs at Google Chrome to keep millions of iPhone users hooked on Safari
By Kevin Okemwa published
NOT PRIVATE ENOUGH As part of Apple's plan to keep iPhone users 'glued' to Safari, it has highlighted two critical privacy issues riddling Google Chrome's user experience.
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