From Tom's Hardware: The controversial Windows Recall feature appears to be ready to make a comeback. Microsoft announced in an updated blog post on Wednesday it will begin rolling the AI feature, available only on Copilot+ PCs running Windows 11, to members of the Windows Insider program in October.
Microsoft paused its rollout of Windows Recall shortly after it began testing it in the Windows Insider Canary channel. The software giant hit the pause button after multiple security concerns about the new feature were raised.
Recall, If you recall, is a new feature available only on Copilot+ PCs that periodically takes screenshots of your active windows on your PC, analyzes them on-device using a neural processing unit (NPU) and an AI model, and inputs that analysis into an SQLite database. The user can then query that database using natural language searches to retrieve relevant screenshots.
The problem was with the security (or lack thereof) built into the feature. Researchers discovered the SQLite database was accessible to other users on the PC, either locally or remotely via malware. Microsoft announced major changes to encrypt the database and require a Windows Hello login to use Recall, then pulled the feature from even the Canary channel by mid-June.
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