Realme Pad 2 will be launched in India in a Wi-Fi only variant soon. The company confirmed the launch date and revealed a few key specifications of the upcoming model. Notably, the Realme Pad 2 with LTE support was unveiled in the country in July 2023. Both LTE and Wi-Fi variants are likely to have identical features apart from the titular connectivity element. Realme is also gearing up to introduce a new lineup of smartphones in India, namely the Realme P1 5G series, alongside the tablet.
In a press note, Realme confirmed that the Pad 2 Wi-Fi variant will be launched in India on April 15 at 12pm IST alongside the Realme P1 5G lineup. It will be available for purchase via Flipkart and the Realme India website. A landing page for the tablet has revealed the design which appears to be the same as the LTE version. The Wi-Fi variant is teased to launch in the similar Inspiration Green and Imagination Grey colourways.
The company also confirmed that the Realme Pad 2 Wi-Fi variant will be equipped with an 11.5-inch 2K (2,000 x 1,200 pixels) display with up to 120Hz refresh rate, 450 nits of peak brightness level, blue light protection and 85.2 percent screen-to-body ratio. It is confirmed to get an 8,360mAh battery with support for 33W wired SuperVOOC charging.
Although the company has not yet revealed the price of the Realme Pad 2 Wi-Fi variant, it is likely to be priced lower than the LTE version, which launched in India at Rs. 19,999 for the 6GB + 128GB option, while the 8GB + 256GB variant was listed at Rs. 22,999.
The Realme Pad 2 LTE variant comes with a MediaTek Helio G99 SoC paired with up to 8GB of RAM and 256GB of onboard storage. It ships with Android 13-based Realme UI 4.0. The tablet supports features like multi-screen collaboration, screen mirroring, dual windows, spilt screen, and a smart sidebar. It also carries an 8-megapixel AI-backed rear camera sensor.
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If security researchers from VU Amsterdam are to be believed, Intel’s CPUs are still vulnerable to Spectre attacks, despite both hardware and software mitigations.
Earlier this week, a team of scientists from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, a public research university in The Netherlands, said they developed a new technique that allowed them to extract sensitive information such as passwords and keys, from vulnerable Intel devices.
The technique leveraged the same methods as the infamous Spectre attack, pulling data from kernel memory and other areas of RAM which shouldn’t be accessible, all thanks to a feature that predicts what the chip should do next. The predictive feature’s goal was to make the device faster.
Open source effort
They call the new technique InSpectre Gadget. It looks for “gadgets” – code snippets, even on devices with Spectre protections set up. In a demonstration, the researchers said they worked around the FineIBT security solution and pulled data from protected kernel memory.
“We show that our tool can not only uncover new (unconventionally) exploitable gadgets in the Linux kernel, but that those gadgets are sufficient to bypass all deployed Intel mitigations,” the researchers explained. “As a demonstration, we present the first native Spectre-v2 exploit against the Linux kernel on last-generation Intel CPUs, based on the recent BHI variant and able to leak arbitrary kernel memory at 3.5 kB/sec.”
The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2024-2201 and allegedly works against all Intel CPUs.
InSpectre Gadget is an open-source tool, the researchers added. “Our efforts led to the discovery of 1,511 Spectre gadgets and 2,105 so-called ‘dispatch gadgets. The latter are very useful for an attacker, as they can be used to chain gadgets and direct speculation towards a Spectre gadget.”
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Spectre is a critical vulnerability discovered back in 2018, together with the Meltdown flaw. It was said that a mechanism which allowed modern CPUs to work faster was leaking sensitive data. Mitigations also resulted in some devices working slower.
Samsung, the South Korean tech giant, has been taking small steps to engage with Web3 without directly exposing its massive user base to volatile digital assets. In a fresh development, Samsung has announced a partnership with metaverse game Wilder World. Through this partnership, Wilder World will provide NFT rewards to fifteen customers of Samsung’s exclusive Web3 TV bundle. This deal, for Wilder World, will offer the game inroads into millions of houses through Samsung’s smart televisions.
A free-to-roam metaverse ecosystem, Wilder World is primarily a competitive racing game that launched for alpha testing in December 2023 and will begin a wider rollout this year. The team behind the game announced its partnership with Samsung via an official post on X on Wednesday.
In Samsung’s next sale of exclusive Web3 TV bundles, fifteen select buyers will get Wilder World NFTs as rewards. Through this partnership, the metaverse game expects to add new players to its ecosystem.
Samsung, catching up with the advancements in emerging technologies, is essentially looking to connect with a newer generation of customers. The Seoul-based company is hence integrating Web3 elements like the metaverse and NFTs with its newer range of products.
Samsung has long maintained its lead in the television market. In 2023, the company reportedly occupied a 30.1 percent market share of televisions sold globally, which was slightly higher than the previous year’s 29.7 percent. With its new initiatives, Samsung could directly bring Web3 technologies to its vast user base.
This is not the first time that the tech mammoth has taken a Web3-friendly approach. In April 2023, for instance, Samsung teamed up with Crypto.com to bring asset trading services on devices from the Galaxy Z fold series.
In 2022, Samsung tied up with partners Theta Labs and Nifty Gateway to get NFTs to its smart TV and smartphone ecosystems.
In fact, the same year Samsung introduced the world’s first TV-based NFT explorer. Later that year, the company started rolling out smart TV models that came with features like NFT buying and management.
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Alfa Romeo has announced its first foray into the battery electric vehicle market with the glitzy unveiling of its new Milano model – a sporty, stylish SUV that goes heavy on performance, handling and classic Alfa design cues in order to stand out from a congested crowd.
However, Alfa Romeo is now part of the absolutely massive Stellantis corporation, which includes Fiat, Jeep, Peugeot and Vauxhall, so you’d be correct in thinking that it shares many of its parts with popular electric models from those brands.
In fact, Milano rides on the eCMP platform, which underpins everything from the Peugeot e-2008 to the Fiat 600e. Plus, it borrows the 54kWh battery pack from the Abarth 600e and Jeep Avenger, tuned to offer either 154bhp or 238bhp that’s driven through the front wheels.
It’s not exactly adding up to the smoky-tired, snarling-V6 performance of an Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio Verde model, but it should equate to some relatively sprightly real-world acceleration figures, which we are yet to have confirmed.
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In order for the Milano to appeal to the true ‘Alfaholics’ out there, engineers have ensured it has faster and more direct steering than some of those aforementioned siblings, as well as lower, sportier suspension, larger brakes and beefed-up anti-roll bars. Alfa says Milano is a “handbook for an Italian brand devoted to the satisfaction of the sensory faculties,” whatever that means.
Despite this, there’s still a huge reliance on practicality, with Alfa claiming Milano has a class-leading 400-liter boot, as well as cable organization in the ‘frunk’.
There’s also a highly digitized interior that includes a 10.25-inch TFT display that takes care of instrumentation and a touchscreen of the same size that features a widget-based, ‘drag and drop’ interface so the user can set up the home screen to their tastes.
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An exercise in Italian flair
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Clearly a handsome beast, the compact 4.1m long, 1.5m tall Milano makes the most of the research and development the Stellantis group has already invested into pure electric vehicles, borrowing many of its parts from EVs that are already on the road.
But while it undoubtedly injects a little premium spice and Alfa exoticism to an otherwise fairly homogenous market, some of the range and charging figures touted by the Italian marques aren’t exactly headline-grabbing.
An official range of 250-miles has been suggested, but that’s very likely to drop to around 200 miles if you factor in any bouts of ‘spirited’ driving. Not bad for a car of this size, but still not mind-blowing. Similarly, its Level 2 automated driving functionality is fairly commonplace nowadays and can’t rival what the likes of Tesla offers on most of its models.
Even the voice-activated virtual assistant and ChatGPT integration is old news now, seeing as Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz and more announced tie-ups with the natural language processing chatbot at the start of the year.
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Still, Alfa is playing it safe by offering Milano in a hybrid option, which will be powered by a 1.2-litre inline-3 engine with a 48-volt lithium-ion battery pack and a 21-kW electric motor. This version could be the most practical of the two and still sports the same eye-catching design language.
There is currently no word on pricing, but TopGear suggests that the entry-level car will undercut the Jeep Avenger’s £34,000 (around $42,600 / AU$65,300) starting cost. However, this looks likely to be a car for Europe, rather than a global option.
In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity, security teams face a plethora of threats and trends that demand attention and robust solutions. IT infrastructure is growing in diversity, location and size, and cyberattacks are ever-evolving in cadence and sophistication. The security team’s job to protect sensitive data, oversee user access, promptly identify and address security breaches, and, ultimately, recover from a cyberattack throughout the infrastructure, including edge, core and cloud, is more complex than ever.
We are seeing evidence of this play out in real time, not just with the increasing number of headlines about cyberattacks taking place. Our research has also uncovered that almost half (48%) of UK organizations have reported experiencing a cyberattack or incident that prevented access to data recovery in the last year. This figure increased to 87% when we asked respondents if they recalled their organization experiencing cyber-related disruption in 2023.
Interestingly, while progress in GenAI has advanced and generated much excitement, it is both the culprit and savior of the ‘perma-crisis’ we’re experiencing within cybersecurity. On the one hand, GenAI delivers novel avenues to protect businesses in an ever-evolving threat landscape, protecting IT environments with greater sophistication and scale. On the other hand, it is the perfect vehicle for malicious actors to enhance their attacks. GenAI systems themselves can also be targeted; as AI becomes more integrated into critical systems and infrastructure, the potential for hacking grows.
It’s not just business operations at risk from significant disruption in this new world. Our findings also revealed that costs associated with cyberattacks and related incidents have doubled globally, topping USD 1.41 million (USD 0.66 million in 2022). This shows that getting cybersecurity strategies wrong can be expensive, and businesses’ concern over whether their existing data protection measures are sufficient to cope is valid. We don’t yet understand the full extent of the threats and rewards that GenAI offers, which makes managing risk and enhancing value a balancing act for all businesses on the GenAI journey. So, how can business leaders navigate this challenge of deploying GenAI quickly and securely while also using it to enhance protective measures?
Sean Pedrosa
Director for Data Protection and Cyber Resilience, Dell Technologies UK.
Gen AI as the great threat detector
Although GenAI can indeed be an accelerant to cybersecurity threats (according to our research, 27% globally feel GenAI will initially provide an advantage to cyber criminals), it can also be used to detect and respond to anomalies and potential threats in real-time. Again, looking at the results of our recent study, 40% of organizations in the UK are optimistic about GenAI’s capabilities for bolstering their cyber defenses.
Strengthening one’s infrastructure’s security posture is essential before leveraging GenAI as an ally in securing an organization. An organization must identify and minimize vulnerabilities and entry points that can compromise applications, systems, or networks across various domains, including edge, core, and cloud. GenAI can become the ultimate protector of the avenues cyber criminals love to exploit through improved and automated threat detection and response, predicting future threats, and identifying patterns, anomalies, vulnerabilities, and indicators of compromise.
Detecting and responding to cyber threats means staying alert. With the ability to recognize known attack signatures and identify deviating behavior, staying alert and acting are things GenAI can do incredibly well. For instance, for those bad actors that gain access, GenAI can use its power to help keep hackers in confinement and stop them from spreading further within the system, avoiding the escalation of the attack.
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By continuously monitoring user behavior and network activity, GenAI can be trained to strengthen the cybersecurity position of the organization and adjust permissions based on risk assessments. It can even be used as a password generator to provide complex, unique passwords. Cybersecurity is a non-negotiable for businesses, so to combat sophisticated cyber threats, organizations must understand how AI can identify and respond to what’s known and unknown, avoid cyber-attacks, maintain robust security practices and accelerate ideas to innovation.
The power of Zero Trust
Traditional prevention methods have typically focused on a ‘perimeter-centric’ approach, using a security framework rooted in the ‘trusted known’ inside the perimeter, i.e. employees and partners, and the ‘trusted unknown’ outside the boundaries, i.e. hackers and bad actors. However, the increasingly sophisticated nature of GenAI has allowed bad actors to enter the network disguised as the ‘trusted known’. Keeping an organization safe from cyber-attacks is much more complicated in a world where anyone has Gen AI at their fingertips.
Well-protected organizations institute a Zero Trust security model, a comprehensive strategy focusing on three core practice areas: reducing the attack surface, detecting and responding to cyber threats, and restoring business operations fast and with as little interruption as possible. Zero Trust operates on the “never trust, always verify” principle. By approaching security assuming breaches have already occurred, organizations are challenged not to implicitly trust any user, device or network, whether internal or external.
Zero Trust’s holistic approach ensures multiple policy checkpoints and automatically grants or denies requests based on user behavior patterns. One can quickly appreciate the relationship between GenAI and Zero Trust – capabilities such as behavioral analytics and anomaly detection, automated threat response and remediation, and adaptive access control can strengthen an organization’s Zero Trust framework.
Modern cybersecurity must be intelligent, scalable and automated
To truly reap the benefits of GenAI, security teams must remain vigilant and adaptable to emerging threat vectors. Investment in more intelligent, adaptive behavioral and machine learning defenses will be crucial, as will the monitoring of GenAI’s impact on the evolving attacker landscape. Addressing blind spots, reducing fraud risks, and integrating GenAI into training programs are further essential measures to stay ahead of cyber threats.
While GenAI does indeed necessitate a re-evaluation of security strategies to include the protection of its own systems, it also promises vast benefits. We will see this value in improved threat detection and response; predicting future threats, automating threat detection, facilitating forensic analysis, delivering personalized security awareness training and scaling security operations. GenAI will also help companies increase efficiency and augment the security skills gap by freeing human security personnel to focus on more strategic and complex tasks.
2024 is the year we move from GenAI experimentation to seeing real-time, tangible business outcomes. And yet we know that the technology, and the benefits and risks it represents, will continue to evolve, perhaps in unexpected ways. That means security teams must revisit and refine safety and security strategies in the context of AI and be ready to adapt how they protect their workflows and underlying data. Security teams must prepare today because AI promises to change how we do business (and keep it safe) tomorrow.
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While it’s probably a safe bet that Wes Anderson will never direct Squid Game, Netflix’s new series The 8 Show suggests that it might be a good idea. The trailer for the show (see below), which debuts on the streamer on May 17, looks like it’s going to be very strange indeed.
The 8 Show is an eagerly anticipated drama from acclaimed director Han Jae Rim, making their first show for Netflix, and with a cast of Korean stars including Ryu Jun Yeol, Chun Woo Hee, Park Jung Min, Lee Yul Eum, Park Hae Jun, Lee Joo Young, Moon Jeong Hee, and Bae Seong Woo. Like Squid Game, it’s about a reality show with a heart of darkness.
Why The 8 Show is one for your watch list
The premise of the show is really intriguing: eight people are trapped in a mysterious eight-storey building to participate in a game show where “time equals money”. In order to win huge sums of cash, they’ll need to make their way through the building’s eight levels through a mix of co-operation, competition and the odd bit of back-stabbing.
The show is based on the hit web comics Money Game and Pie Game by Bae Jin Soo, which you can view on webtoons.com if you don’t mind giving yourself all the spoilers. But if you’d rather just get an overview, here are the rules that the Money Game comic sets out. Skip this next paragraph if you want to come to the show without any advance info.
In Money Game, there are eight contestants, 100 days and a shared pot of nearly forty million dollars. The contestants need to use the money to buy the things they need to survive, but every purchase reduces the amount they’ll walk away with – and every purchase is 1,000 times the price you’d normally pay, so those millions might not last too long. The challenge is to spend as little as possible to protect the cash pot – and that’s where the co-operation, collaboration and betrayals come in.
It sounds brilliant and could well be the next big K-drama hit. We’ll find out for sure when The 8 Show streams on Netflix this May.
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Ever since ChatGPT was first introduced to the world, we kept hearing warnings of how hackers might use it to create malicious code quickly and efficiently. Now, courtesy of cybersecurity researchers Proofpoint, we have real-life proof (pun definitely intended).
Earlier this week, the researchers published a new report on TA547, a financially motivated threat actor that usually operates as an initial access broker (IAB), grabbing login credentials from victims, and then selling them on the dark web to the highest bidder.
This group recently started targeting German organizations with an email phishing campaign delivering the Rhadamanthys malware. In the campaign, they impersonated the German retail company Metro, and sent messages related to invoices. The emails would carry a password-protected ZIP file which, if executed, triggered PowerShell to run a remote PowerShell script.
“Typical output”
This script decoded the Rhadamanthys malware stored in a variable, and loaded it directly into memory. It was also this script that the researchers believe could have been written by generative AI. Apparently, the PowerShell script included a pound sign followed by grammatically correct and hyper specific comments above each component of the script, which is a “typical output of LLM-generated coding content”.
This doesn’t change anything when it comes to defenses, the researchers further explained. The mechanisms against these threats remain the same.
TA547 has been active for a few years now, usually delivering the NetSupport RAT. However, the group was also observed dropping StealC and Lumma Stealer. They mostly target firms in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, with Spain, and the U.S., being notable mentions.
Ever since their inception, security researchers warned about generative AI tools and their place in every hacker’s tech stack. To tackle the idea, the tools’ developers placed roadblocks, preventing the creation of malicious content. However crooks have so far been successful in working around these solutions.
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Oppo and OnePlus have joined hands with Google to utilise its artificial intelligence (AI) model Gemini’s capabilities in their devices. Under the partnership, the Chinese smartphone brands will get to leverage the Gemini 1.0 Ultra model to introduce new AI features. Notably, Oppo already has its own native large language model dubbed AndesGPT, through which it has released multiple AI features in its devices in China. Recently, the brand announced that the Reno 11 series will get the AI Eraser feature globally.
The announcement was made during the tech giant’s annual Google Cloud Next event, where Nicole Zhang, General Manager of AI Product for OPPO and OnePlus, said, “Generative AI is a transformative technology, and I’m confident that OPPO and OnePlus are excellently positioned to deliver its benefits to users globally. Through our collaboration with Google to integrate both Gemini and Google Cloud AI into smartphones, and by forging partnerships with other industry leaders for diverse AI experiences, we’re excited to significantly expand the realm of mobile AI innovations.”
Zhang also stated that both smartphone brands are planning to introduce more than 100 AI-generated content experiences for its users. AI-generated content experiences likely mean AI-based features that incorporate content in one way or another. Some examples of these features could be the Call Summary generator and the AI image generator. Notably, Oppo has introduced both of these features in China.
It appears that the collaboration with Google will be for Oppo and OnePlus users outside China. While the details of the collaboration are not known at this point, it could pave a path for the companies to bring Google-specific AI features to their smartphones such as Portrait light and lock-screen song identification. In a statement, the brands said some of the under-development features include summarising news articles, summarising audio, and generating new social media content.
Interestingly, the move coincides with Oppo’s recent announcement of bringing the AI Eraser feature to the Reno 11 series smartphones worldwide. The AI Eraser is a photo editing tool which can be found within the in-built gallery app. Once a user circles any object in the background, the AI processes and removes it, while restoring the background elements.
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Plot twist: we thought the ‘ghost touches’ issue on the Apple Watch 9 and the Apple Watch Ultra 2 had been fixed for good, but it’s now made a return, with Apple issuing fresh advice to its authorized repair shops.
The problem is with Apple Watches falsely registering taps and swipes on the screen without being touched, and we first reported on it back in February. It wasn’t clear how many devices were affected, but Apple did acknowledge the issue.
Then in March we got the watchOS 10.4 update, which apparently fixed the ghost touches problem – it even said so in the release notes. At that point we thought it was case closed for this particular Apple Watch bug, but not so.
As per MacRumors, it seems some Apple Watch owners are still seeing the phantom taps. What’s more, the issue is now affecting even more models, stretching back to the Apple Watch 7 that made its debut in September 2021.
What to do?
This has JUST been extended to series 7, series 8, as well as ultra 1 just FYIApple has advised us not to replace watches for this issue and to tell people to basically force restart the watch by holding both buttons together for 10 seconds and also keep your watches up-to-date https://t.co/klrVeYhkD0April 10, 2024
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It’s difficult to figure out exactly what’s happened here: all we know is there’s a new Apple memo to authorized service providers, telling them that users might complain of ghost touch problems on any Apple Watch launched since 2021.
Has the watchOS 10.4 update failed to fix the problem? Has it in fact caused the problem to appear on older models besides the 2023 watches? At this stage Apple isn’t saying, but users are still reporting problems on Reddit.
We do know the advice in the memo, which is to update affected Apple Watches to the latest watchOS version, then do a force restart: hold down the side button and the digital crown for 10 seconds, before letting go.
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Go through that process and – hopefully – any lingering ghost touch problems should be fixed. Considering this has now been in the news for a couple of months though, we might not be completely done with it yet.
Windows 11 could conceivably get what surely everyone would regard as an unwelcome addition, or at least a very controversial change in terms of a potential new button for the taskbar that’s been uncovered in the innards of the desktop OS.
Apparently, Microsoft might just be mulling a ‘recommended’ button for the taskbar, and the theory is that it could surface various suggestions and thinly veiled adverts.
A new button is coming to the Windows 11 Taskbar right alongside system ones like Task View, Widgets, etc. It’s called “Recommended” & has all strings stripped from production, guess the UI team doesn’t want people to know. Concerned about recommendations becoming this integral😬 pic.twitter.com/XnvPhcGhvPApril 9, 2024
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The workings for such a button were discovered by well-known Microsoft leaker Albacore on X (formerly Twitter).
As Albacore makes clear, the button has had all its related strings (in the background) stripped from production builds, as if Microsoft’s team working on the interface wants to keep this as low-profile on the radar as possible.
As the leaker points out, the worry is that Microsoft is really thinking about making ‘suggestions,’ or nudges, recommendations, or whatever you want to call them, an integral part of the desktop, with a whole dedicated button on the taskbar.
Albacore notes that the description of the button is that it ‘controls visibility of recommendations on the taskbar’ and it’s filed under the term ‘taskbar sites,’ so the leaker theorizes that perhaps we could get website suggestions right on the taskbar, with the button’s icon changing to be the favicon of any given recommended site.
We’d further guess that maybe the idea would be to make these context-sensitive, so suggestions given would depend on what you’re doing in Windows 11 at the time – but that really is just guesswork.
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As Albacore observes, we can hope that this might just be a piece of work from times gone past which has been abandoned, but references to it are still hanging around in the background of Windows 11. It’s entirely possible nothing will come of this, in short, and even if Microsoft is currently exploring the idea, it might ditch the button before it even comes to testing.
Granted, even if a recommended taskbar button is realized, we’d assume that Windows 11 will come with the option to turn it off – but it’s still a worrying hint about the direction Microsoft is at least considering here with a future update. A dedicated button like this would be a huge move in the direction of what might be termed soft advertising (or nudging).
Sadly, a further recent development as highlighted by another leaker on X, PhantomOfEarth, is that the ‘Recommended’ section in Windows 11’s Start menu could be getting something called promoted apps.
Looks like the Start menu’s Recommended section will be getting app promotions, similar to suggested apps in Start in Windows 10. This can be toggled off from Settings (Show recommendations for tips, app promotions, and more). pic.twitter.com/zYYnTKs9qwApril 9, 2024
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These would be apps Microsoft is actively promoting – there’s no bones about the advertising here, this isn’t badging or nudging – and again, it’s a dangerous move that very much runs the risk of annoying Windows 11 users. (Albeit it can be switched off – and remember, this is only in testing so far).
Given all this, we very much get the feeling that advertising-focused recommendations along these lines is something Microsoft is seriously considering doing more of. And given the past history of the software giant, that’s not surprising.
If you recall, recommended websites in the Start menu has long been a controversial topic – Microsoft previously toyed with the idea, abandoned it, but then brought it back in again last year to the disbelief of many folks (ourselves included).
As we’ve discussed in-depth elsewhere, the pushy advertising around Microsoft’s Edge browser and Bing search has been taken to new and unacceptable levels in recent times.
How about we abandon this line of thinking entirely, Microsoft? Just stop with the incessant promotion of your own services, or indeed possibly third-party services or websites, within Windows 11. This is an operating system we, the users, pay for – so we shouldn’t have to suffer adverts in various parts of the Windows interface.
Either make Windows completely free and ad-supported, or charge for it, with no ads, suggestions, nudges, or other promotional tomfoolery to be seen anywhere in the OS. Or give us a choice of either route – but don’t make us pay twice for Windows 11, once with an initial lump sum fee to buy the OS, and then again with further ongoing monetization by way of a constant drip-feed of ads here, there and everywhere.
