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Microsoft Plans Smartphone-Style Permission Prompts for Windows 11 Apps

Microsoft is planning to bring smartphone-style app permission prompts to Windows 11, requiring apps to get explicit user consent before they can access sensitive resources like the file system, camera and microphone. The company's Windows Platform engineer Logan Iyer said the move was prompted by applications increasingly overriding user settings, installing unwanted software, and modifying core Windows experiences without permission. A separate initiative called Windows Baseline Security Mode will enforce runtime integrity safeguards by default, allowing only properly signed apps, services, and drivers to run. Both changes will roll out in phases as part of Microsoft's Secure Future Initiative, which the company launched in November 2023 after a federal review board called its security culture "inadequate."

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Comment les boutons « résumé par IA » sont devenus des armes de manipulation redoutables

Dans un billet publié le 10 février 2026, les chercheurs de Microsoft alertent sur la multiplication de cas d’« AI Recommendation Poisoning » cachés dans des boutons de résumé d’articles. Cette technique détourne cette fonctionnalité afin de générer, sur le long terme, des recommandations biaisées.​

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