The Windows Control Panel is slated to be removed in favor of the Settings app. Also....

This was kind of inevitable, so many things are moving there and sometimes it's hard to what obscure thing you're looking for is where. In the end it will probably be a good thing, but it'll take a decade before it's stable. ;-)

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/system-configuration-tools-in-windows-f8a49657-b038-43b8-82d3-28bea0c5666b

https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/08/23/031251/microsoft-says-its-getting-rid-of-control-panel-in-windows


In other Windows news, Microsoft announces the return of Recall. That's the system where your operating system watches everything you do, OCRs it and stores it in a local database to help you remember what you were doing in the past for your convenience. This was announced back in June, and it was discovered in beta deployments that there was absolutely no security being deployed in the database in terms of encryption or permissions, so if someone gained access to your PC - which never happens - then they could see your bank credentials, credit card numbers, health insurance info, you know - trivial things.

Details have not yet been released as to what security protections have been put in place. A non-existent Microsoft PR flack was quoted as saying "Trust us!"

The revised feature will go to Insider Program testers in October. Microsoft says more details will be disclosed at that time.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/08/microsoft-will-try-the-data-scraping-windows-recall-feature-again-in-october/

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/08/22/1648253/microsoft-will-try-the-data-scraping-windows-recall-feature-again-in-october

Are you ready for the latest weird ex-president's family scam?

Seems they're going to open a crypto currency financial platform. I'd say it's pretty much on-brand as he's already done NFTs and he's been talking about using crypto to eliminate the national debt, as if that would work. He's just throwing buzzwords out to try to get crypto bros supporting his sinking ship.

They've created a new Telegram channel called The DeFiant Ones, DeFi being a buzzword for this garbage. The platform hasn't launched yet.

This is going to be interesting to watch, as in a slow-moving train wreck, break out the popcorn. His family has zero experience in banking. Yes, they've sold NFTs. Yes, they accept cryptocurrency donations. And his latest financial disclosure forms shows he holds at least a million dollars in crypto. But starting a crypto platform takes a huge amount of money, much like opening a bank. And he doesn't have it. After stealing from his charity, and his extensive history of not paying contractors, why would anyone invest in something that he's most likely going to be skimming from?

I can't wait to see him follow Sam Bankman-Fried into prison, I only hope his two idiot sons are right there in orange jumpsuits right next to him.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/22/trump-crypto-defi-protocol-launch.html

https://slashdot.org/story/24/08/22/2254242/trump-promotes-familys-new-crypto-platform-the-defiant-ones