Many have heard claims that Windows 11 is heavily “spying” on users. As a recent YouTube video on The PC Security Channel shows, Windows 11 does send massive amounts of data to its own and third-party servers.

Worst of all, the OS does this before the user even installs or opens their first app. The author of the channel used the Wireshark application to analyze network activity on two “clean” versions of Windows.

The first was the brand new Windows 11, and the second was the good old Windows XP. A quick analysis revealed that Windows 11 connects to many third-party servers and services, most of which do nothing but track for ads. And it’s worth noting that all of these actions take place on every Windows 11 computer out of the box, without prompting the user and before he tries to use the Internet.

Xiaomi is just getting ready for a big international presentation, where the flagship Xiaomi 13 Lite with a Leica camera will become the main highlight of the program. Meanwhile, information about another interesting model of the series appeared on the network – the Xiaomi 13 Lite smartphone.

Details and unofficial renderings were shared by network whistleblower billbil_kun, who previously celebrated predictions that came true in various areas, including the appearance of the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra and the Microsoft-Bethesda collaboration.

So, the Xiaomi 13 Lite smartphone should become the international version of the Chinese Xiaomi Civi 2. According to the source, the most affordable model in the Xiaomi series will debut on the international market at the same time as Xiaomi 13 and Xiaomi 13 Pro at a presentation in Barcelona. At the same time, pre-orders will open only on March 8.

Presumably, the price of Xiaomi 13 Lite for Europe will be 549 euros for the version with 256 GB of flash memory. A 128 GB version is also expected, but the price is still unknown. It is also noted that there will be two color options, like Xiaomi 13 Pro.

The developers have created a new program for the police based on the DALL-E 2 neural network. It creates “hyper-realistic” sketches of suspects and works much faster than systems for creating conventional sketches.

“At the current stage, we are still trying to determine if this project will be viable for real world use or not. To do this, we plan to contact the police departments to get the initial data on which we can check this.“, the authors write.

However, AI ethicists and researchers have told the media that such systems could reinforce various one-time or gender biases, as well as complicate policing.

“Studies have shown that people remember faces as a whole, not just individual features. The process of creating a portrait based on the description of individual facial features, as an AI program does, can lead to a face that is strikingly different from the face of a criminal. Unfortunately, once the witness sees the created image, that image can replace a vague memory of the real suspect in their mind.‘, say the experts.

Earlier it was reported that Baidu is preparing an analogue of ChatGPT called Ernie Bot.