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A security vulnerability in Microsoft three sixty-five Copilot is drawing serious attention this week. Researchers at Varonis discovered a way to chain three separate bugs into a single exploit, potentially turning Copilot into a one-click tool for stealing data from inboxes, OneDrive, and SharePoint. Microsoft has issued a patch, and the advice is straightforward — apply it now.
Shifting to a story about personal data of a different kind, a new self-hosted tool called Memento is asking an interesting question: what if your email archive, potentially hundreds of thousands of messages spanning decades, could be transformed into a searchable personal wiki? The project uses local AI to surface patterns, people, and projects buried in your inbox, all without sending your data to a third party.
And in the ongoing tension between regulators and big tech, a pointed argument is circulating that the European Commission's pressure on Google Search may be creating unintended consequences for national security. The piece suggests that fragmenting or weakening a dominant Western search infrastructure carries geopolitical risks that Brussels hasn't fully weighed — a trade-off worth watching closely as the regulatory process continues.
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