Microsoft has started stripping Copilot branding out of Notepad in Windows 11, replacing the old Copilot menu with a more generic "writing tools" label. The AI features themselves aren't going away, but Microsoft seems to be backing off the heavy-handed Copilot branding and extra entry points. Windows Central reports: As promised, Microsoft is now beginning its effort to reduce and remove Copilot branding across Windows 11, with the latest Notepad update for Insiders outright removing the Copilot icon and phrasing. Now, the AI menu is simply called "writing tools," and maintains the same functionality as before. Additionally, Microsoft has also removed references to AI in the Settings area in Notepad. Now, the ability to turn on or off these AI powered writing tools are now listed under "Advanced features."
This change is present in the latest preview build of Notepad which is now rolling out to all Windows Insiders. The app version is 11.2512.28.0, and you'll know you have it if you see the Copilot icon replaced with a pen icon instead. [...] For Notepad, it appears Microsoft has opted to replace the Copilot menu with something more generic. It's still the same functionally, but it's no longer leaning on the tainted Copilot brand. Of course, you can still easily turn off all AI features in Notepad if you don't want them. The Verge reports that the "unnecessary Copilot buttons" are also disappearing from the Snipping Tool, Photos, and Widgets.
This change is present in the latest preview build of Notepad which is now rolling out to all Windows Insiders. The app version is 11.2512.28.0, and you'll know you have it if you see the Copilot icon replaced with a pen icon instead. [...] For Notepad, it appears Microsoft has opted to replace the Copilot menu with something more generic. It's still the same functionally, but it's no longer leaning on the tainted Copilot brand. Of course, you can still easily turn off all AI features in Notepad if you don't want them. The Verge reports that the "unnecessary Copilot buttons" are also disappearing from the Snipping Tool, Photos, and Widgets.
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: The FBI was able to forensically extract copies of incoming Signal messages from a defendant's iPhone, even after the app was deleted, because copies of the content were saved in the device's push notification database, multiple people present for FBI testimony in a recent trial told 404 Media. The case involved a group of people setting off fireworks and vandalizing property at the ICE Prairieland Detention Facility in Alvarado, Texas in July, and one shooting a police officer in the neck. The news shows how forensic extraction -- when someone has physical access to a device and is able to run specialized software on it -- can yield sensitive data derived from secure messaging apps in unexpected places. Signal already has a setting that blocks message content from displaying in push notifications; the case highlights why such a feature might be important for some users to turn on.
"We learned that specifically on iPhones, if one's settings in the Signal app allow for message notifications and previews to show up on the lock screen, [then] the iPhone will internally store those notifications/message previews in the internal memory of the device," a supporter of the defendants who was taking notes during the trial told 404 Media. [...] During one day of the related trial, FBI Special Agent Clark Wiethorn testified about some of the collected evidence. A summary of Exhibit 158 published on a group of supporters' website says, "Messages were recovered from Sharp's phone through Apple's internal notification storage -- Signal had been removed, but incoming notifications were preserved in internal memory. Only incoming messages were captured (no outgoing)."
404 Media spoke to one of the supporters who was taking notes during the trial, and to Harmony Schuerman, an attorney representing defendant Elizabeth Soto. Schuerman shared notes she took on Exhibit 158. "They were able to capture these chats bc [because] of the way she had notifications set up on her phone -- anytime a notification pops up on the lock screen, Apple stores it in the internal memory of the device," those notes read. The supporter added, "I was in the courtroom on the last day of the state's case when they had FBI Special Agent Clark testifying about some Signal messages. One set came from Lynette Sharp's phone (one of the cooperating witnesses), but the interesting detailed messages shown in court were messages that had been set to disappear and had in fact disappeared in the Signal app." Further reading: Apple Gave Governments Data On Thousands of Push Notifications
"We learned that specifically on iPhones, if one's settings in the Signal app allow for message notifications and previews to show up on the lock screen, [then] the iPhone will internally store those notifications/message previews in the internal memory of the device," a supporter of the defendants who was taking notes during the trial told 404 Media. [...] During one day of the related trial, FBI Special Agent Clark Wiethorn testified about some of the collected evidence. A summary of Exhibit 158 published on a group of supporters' website says, "Messages were recovered from Sharp's phone through Apple's internal notification storage -- Signal had been removed, but incoming notifications were preserved in internal memory. Only incoming messages were captured (no outgoing)."
404 Media spoke to one of the supporters who was taking notes during the trial, and to Harmony Schuerman, an attorney representing defendant Elizabeth Soto. Schuerman shared notes she took on Exhibit 158. "They were able to capture these chats bc [because] of the way she had notifications set up on her phone -- anytime a notification pops up on the lock screen, Apple stores it in the internal memory of the device," those notes read. The supporter added, "I was in the courtroom on the last day of the state's case when they had FBI Special Agent Clark testifying about some Signal messages. One set came from Lynette Sharp's phone (one of the cooperating witnesses), but the interesting detailed messages shown in court were messages that had been set to disappear and had in fact disappeared in the Signal app." Further reading: Apple Gave Governments Data On Thousands of Push Notifications
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Gmail's end-to-end encryption is now available on all Android and iOS devices, letting enterprise users send and read encrypted emails directly in the app without any extra tools. "This launch combines the highest level of privacy and data encryption with a user-friendly experience for all users, enabling simple encrypted email for all customers from small businesses to enterprises and public sector," Google announced in a blog post. BleepingComputer reports: Starting this week, encrypted messages will be delivered as regular emails to Gmail recipients' inboxes if they use the Gmail app. Recipients who don't have the Gmail mobile app and use other email services can read them in a web browser, regardless of the device and service they're using.
[...] This feature is now available for all client-side encryption (CSE) users with Enterprise Plus licenses and the Assured Controls or Assured Controls Plus add-on after admins enable the Android and iOS clients in the CSE admin interface via the Admin Console. Gmail's end-to-end encryption (E2EE) feature is powered by the client-side encryption (CSE) technical control, which allows Google Workspace organizations to use encryption keys they control and are stored outside Google's servers to protect sensitive documents and emails.
[...] This feature is now available for all client-side encryption (CSE) users with Enterprise Plus licenses and the Assured Controls or Assured Controls Plus add-on after admins enable the Android and iOS clients in the CSE admin interface via the Admin Console. Gmail's end-to-end encryption (E2EE) feature is powered by the client-side encryption (CSE) technical control, which allows Google Workspace organizations to use encryption keys they control and are stored outside Google's servers to protect sensitive documents and emails.
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Futurism found that Google News is surfacing Polymarket betting pages alongside traditional news sources. "The bets often appear in the 'For you' section of Google News, which is tailored to a user's personal interests," the publication reports. "In one instance, it was even the very top result, as with this bet on the price of Bitcoin." From the report: In our testing, Polymarket bets are also showing up on the Google News home page. But links from the prediction market can pop up all over Google News, including in searches. In further tests, looking up "will ships transit the strait," referring to the Strait of Hormuz, returned numerous credible sources like Financial Times, The Guardian, and Reuters. Just below them, however, was a Polymarket bet on the number of ships that would be allowed to pass through the critical oil passageway.
This doesn't appear to be an accident. When searching "Polymarket" in its search bar, Google News now allows users to choose it as a "source," directing them to a page that aggregates other Polymarket hits. It's not the only non-news site that's selectable as a source -- looking up "Reddit" and "X" offers the option, too -- but searching for "Kalshi," another prediction market and Polymarket's main competitor, doesn't give the option to use it as a source. [...] In light of all this, Polymarket appearing in Google News is a major victory for the prediction platform -- rubber-stamping its image as an authority on developing real-world events right alongside genuine real publishers of journalism.
This doesn't appear to be an accident. When searching "Polymarket" in its search bar, Google News now allows users to choose it as a "source," directing them to a page that aggregates other Polymarket hits. It's not the only non-news site that's selectable as a source -- looking up "Reddit" and "X" offers the option, too -- but searching for "Kalshi," another prediction market and Polymarket's main competitor, doesn't give the option to use it as a source. [...] In light of all this, Polymarket appearing in Google News is a major victory for the prediction platform -- rubber-stamping its image as an authority on developing real-world events right alongside genuine real publishers of journalism.
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Just wondering how much Danny Dyer we will see this Friday night. Sunday versus Leeds bordered on the overkill.
Continue reading...Follow the latest updates as astronauts prepare for fiery re-entry in Earth’s atmosphere after 10-day mission to fly around the moon
All four of the Artemis II astronauts spoke passionately during the mission about what they were seeing, and how they felt, as they passed over the surface of the moon at 4,067 miles away, their closest approach on Monday.
Reid Wiseman, mission commander:
We saw sights that no human has ever seen before, not even in Apollo, and that was amazing for us. The surprise of the day, we just came out of an eclipse where the sun, moon – the entire dark moon about that big right out the window that we were watching – we could see the corona of the sun, and then we could see the planet train line up, and Mars
And all of us commented how excited we are to watch this nation, and this planet, become a two-planet species
We have seen just some extraordinary things. Things I thought we might see looked similar to what I thought they might look like, and other things I just had never even imagined
The perspective I launched with was that we live on a fragile planet in the vacuum and the void of space. We’re very fortunate to live on planet Earth. Our purpose as humans is to find joy in lifting each other up by creating solutions together instead of destroying, and when you see it from out here it doesn’t change it, it just absolutely reaffirms that
I just had an overwhelming sense of being moved by looking at the moon. It lasted just a second or two and I actually couldn’t even make it happen again, but something just threw me in suddenly to the lunar landscape and it became real
The moon really is its own unique body in the universe. When we have that perspective and we compare it to our home of Earth, it just reminds us how much we have in common. Everything we need, Earth provides, and that, in and of itself, is somewhat of a miracle, and one that you can’t truly know until you’ve had the perspective of the other
It was very moving to look out the window. It was hard to speak looking through the zoom [lens], I went straight where Christina went and I was walking around down there on the surface, climbing and off-roading on that amazing terrain
Boy, I am loving the terminator [the dividing line between sunlight and darkness]. There’s just so much magic in the terminator, the islands of light, the valleys that look like black holes. You’d fall straight to the center of the moon if you stepped in some of those. It’s just so visually captivating
Continue reading...Triumphal arch would be 250ft tall, featuring a 60ft golden Lady Liberty, at the foot of Arlington Memorial Bridge
The Trump administration on Friday released new renderings of the triumphal arch the president wants to install in Memorial Circle at the foot of the Arlington Memorial Bridge.
As part of Donald Trump’s legacy-building quest during his second term in office, the so-called “Arc de Trump” would stand 250ft tall, feature a 60ft golden Lady Liberty, and include a viewing deck. The phrase “One Nation Under God” would stretch across the top of the structure, according to the latest plans from Harrison Design.
Continue reading...Former hedge fund manager ‘forced to accept’ newspaper likely to succeed in its public interest defence, say his lawyers
Crispin Odey, the former hedge fund manager, has dropped his £79m libel claim against the Financial Times over its reporting of sexual misconduct allegations against him, his lawyers have said.
In 2023, the FT published several articles from 20 women alleging sexual assault and harassment against Odey, covering a period of five decades. He has previously denied the allegations against him.
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A tour of the mannequin storage room at FIT. Each era’s mannequins are designed to mimic the “fashionable body” of that time period.
NEW YORK (ANP) - Aan de winstreeks op Wall Street van de laatste dagen kwam vrijdag een einde. De graadmeters op de aandelenbeurzen in New York gingen overwegend met verliezen de handel uit. Beleggers leken wat voorzichtiger te worden in aanloop naar de vredesgesprekken tussen de Verenigde Staten en Iran, die in het weekend beginnen.
De Dow-Jonesindex verloor 0,6 procent tot 47.916,57 punten. De brede S&P 500 zakte 0,1 procent tot 6816,89 punten. Alleen techbeurs Nasdaq ging licht vooruit, met 0,4 procent naar 22.902,89 punten.
De olieprijzen lieten een daling zien. Amerikaanse olie werd zo'n 2 procent goedkoper en een vat Brent kostte ruim 1 procent minder.
Beleggers verwerkten ook nieuwe inflatiecijfers. Het gemiddelde prijspeil in de VS steeg in maart 3,3 procent. Daarmee is de inflatie minder sterk opgelopen dan kenners hadden gevreesd. Niettemin kende de Amerikaanse inflatie de sterkste groei in jaren. Door de oorlog in het Midden-Oosten is ook in de VS het tanken van benzine of diesel flink duurder geworden.
ISLAMABAD (ANP/RTR) - Een Iraanse delegatie is geland in de Pakistaanse hoofdstad Islamabad, op de vooravond van vredesonderhandelingen met de Verenigde Staten. De landen houden het overleg op uitnodiging van bemiddelaar Pakistan.
De delegatie wordt geleid door parlementsvoorzitter Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf en bestaat verder uit onder anderen de minister van Buitenlandse Zaken Abbas Araghchi, topfunctionarissen en parlementariërs. Ghalibaf zei vrijdag dat de onderhandelingen pas kunnen beginnen bij een staakt-het-vuren in Libanon en na de vrijgave van bevroren Iraanse tegoeden. De Amerikaanse delegatie wordt geleid door vicepresident JD Vance. Hij is nog onderweg naar Pakistan.
De Pakistaanse premier Shehbaz Sharif beschouwt het overleg als allesbeslissend voor een permanent bestand in het Midden-Oosten. Pakistan speelde eerder ook al een rol bij de totstandkoming van het twee weken durende staakt-het-vuren dat deze week werd aangekondigd.
OEIRAS (ANP) - De Nederlandse tennissters hebben degradatie uit groep 1 van de Europees-Afrikaanse zone in de Billie Jean King Cup voorkomen. Het team van captain Kiki Bertens won in het Portugese Oeiras met 2-0 van Noorwegen.
Anouk Koevermans versloeg Katja Wiersholm in twee sets: 6-0 7-5. Suzan Lamens had drie sets nodig om af te rekenen met Malene Helgo: 6-7 (3) 6-4 6-2.
Nederland verloor donderdag van Turkije, waardoor het team als derde eindigde in de groep. Daardoor was een play-offwedstrijd tegen Noorwegen nodig om degradatie af te wenden.
DEN HAAG (ANP) - De eerste NS-conducteurs krijgen eind deze maand een bodycam uitgereikt. Het kan nog tot eind dit jaar duren voordat alle treinbeambten er een kunnen dragen tijdens hun werk. Dat meldt staatssecretaris Annet Bertram (Openbaar Vervoer, CDA) aan de Tweede Kamer.
Het vorige kabinet trok vorig jaar op Prinsjesdag 12 miljoen euro uit voor de aanschaf van bodycams voor conducteurs, als onderdeel van een breder pakket om de veiligheid in de trein te verbeteren. De NS heeft de aanbesteding inmiddels afgerond en begint deze maand met testen of de gekochte apparaten goed werken en goed op het uniform zitten.
De NS deed al eens een proef met bodycams, en was positief over de resultaten. Het spoorbedrijf concludeerde dat het dragen van de apparaten "de-escalerend" werkt en bovendien bij geweldsincidenten camerabeelden oplevert die als bewijsmateriaal kunnen dienen.
AMSTERDAM (ANP) - De Nederlandse Vereniging van Strafrechtadvocaten (NVSA) roept staatssecretaris van Justitie en Veiligheid Claudia van Bruggen op de strenge communicatiemaatregelen op de zwaarst bewaakte afdelingen van gevangenissen te schrappen. In november werd het toezicht in zwaarbeveiligde inrichtingen zoals de Extra Beveiligde Inrichting (EBI) in Vught aangescherpt als gevolg van een nieuwe gevangeniswet.
Een groep advocaten ging toen tijdelijk in staking vanwege het volgens hen te strenge toezicht. Vooral het verregaande cameratoezicht maakte vertrouwelijke communicatie volgens de advocaten onmogelijk. Begin maart werd besloten om de camerakwaliteit te verlagen waardoor het niet meer mogelijk zou zijn om van de beelden te kunnen liplezen.
"De bestaande zorgen over het gebrek aan vertrouwelijkheid zijn evenwel niet weggenomen en vastgesteld moet worden dat de situatie op dit moment nog steeds onwerkbaar is", schrijft de NVSA vrijdag in een brief aan Van Bruggen. De vereniging wijst erop dat de verboden op verhullende communicatie en het verstrekken of laten zien van (digitale) documenten "het verlenen van adequate rechtsbijstand" onmogelijk maken.
De NVSA zegt dat advocaten zich niet aan de verboden "kunnen en zullen houden zolang deze blijven gelden". Als gesprekken met cliënten daarom worden onderbroken of beëindigd, kan dat volgens de advocaten grote vertraging van lopende strafprocessen opleveren.
DEN HAAG (ANP) - Politici en inwoners van het Groene Hart hebben zich op het provinciehuis in Den Haag urenlang uitgesproken tegen de komst van windturbines in het open polderlandschap. Vele tientallen insprekers vertelden Provinciale Staten hoe ze denken over de plannen van de provincie Zuid-Holland. De boodschap was veelal hetzelfde: zet geen windturbines in het Groene Hart.
"Alles is al gezegd, maar de kracht zit in herhaling", zei een van hen in de avond, toen de twaalf uur durende hoorzitting het einde naderde. "Ik ga het dus gewoon nog maar een keer doen."
Ruim honderd mensen hadden zich aangemeld om hun mening te geven over de voorgestelde herziening van het omgevingsbeleid, waarin de provinciale regels voor de leefomgeving staan. In de ochtend ging het vooral over woningbouw. De meeste insprekers kwamen echter voor de plannen om in het Groene Hart diverse locaties aan te wijzen voor windturbines. Op een enkeling na die hier positief over was, klonk vooral afkeuring.
AMSTELVEEN (ANP) - KLM heeft de hervatting van zijn vluchten van en naar Dubai uitgesteld tot in juni. Ondanks het staakt-het-vuren in het Midden-Oosten van deze week vindt de luchtvaartmaatschappij de situatie in de regio nog steeds te onzeker. Daarom is besloten de vluchten tot en met 14 juni te annuleren.
KLM had eerder al gezegd uit veiligheidsoverwegingen tot in mei niet naar de bestemming in de Verenigde Arabische Emiraten te vliegen. Volgens KLM is de verlenging van de annuleringen met een maand ook bedoeld om reizigers die in de komende periode naar Dubai zouden vliegen "duidelijkheid en zekerheid" te bieden.
De stap geldt niet voor de Saudische bestemmingen Riyad en Dammam. Daar wordt nog steeds tot in ieder geval 17 mei niet op gevlogen, zoals de maatschappij eerder al had laten weten.
De wapenstilstand van woensdag is maar tijdelijk en lijkt bovendien wankel. Vanaf zaterdag gaan de Verenigde Staten en Iran in Pakistan praten over een definitief einde aan de oorlog.
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SocialMakkers we onderbreken uw nacht voor onze vier Sterrenzeilers die met 40.000 kilometer per uur en 3.000 graden Celsius een deur intrappen. En da's spannend, want het hitteschild van de Orion-capsule bleek tijdens de onbemande Artemis I minder goed te presteren dan voorgangers: "Orion’s AVCOAT has been slightly reformulated, and the design of its heat shield is not the same as that of the Apollo missions: while in the past, the Apollo heat shields had a honeycomblike structure made up of 36,000 small cells of AVCOAT, the Orion heat shield is made up of less than 200 large tiles of the material. Before Artemis II, an uncrewed Orion capsule flew in 2022 as part of the Artemis I mission, allowing a test of its heat shield without risking anyone’s well-being. During reentry, that heat shield cracked and shed more material than NASA engineers had expected. The space agency performed an urgent investigation into the anomaly and released a report detailing its findings in 2024. Ultimately, citing the expense and time any replacement would’ve taken, NASA decided not to change the heat shield design for Artemis II’s Orion capsule. Instead mission planners adjusted the capsule’s reentry trajectory so that its heat shield would be exposed to higher temperatures for a shorter time. Orion’s heat shield has been extensively tested on the ground, and NASA officials have said that their models show the new reentry profile effectively minimizes the reentry risk for the Artemis II crew." Nou, dat hopen we dan maar.
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