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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Lots more data harvesting. Lots more AI. Lots more malware.

My partner isn't tech savvy. I asked them to type "CPU-Z" into the task bar and instead of it opening the installed CPU-Z on their computer, the first suggested result was a download link for CPU-Z. They clicked it to download CPU-Z and got full-on AI-suggested malware that forced us to nuke their PC