Windows 11's New AI Can Now See Your Personal Files 👀

"Your OS now has more access to your files than you remember giving it, and somehow that's a feature not a bug."

Microsoft just dropped an AI agent in Windows 11 that runs in the background with full access to your personal folders—privacy concerns are lighting up HN with 312+ comments. Meanwhile, v0 is integrating MCPs for Stripe, Supabase, Neon, and Upstash, making database queries smoother than ever.

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Microsoft is adding an AI agent to Windows 11 that runs in the background with access to your personal folders. This is either the future of ambient computing or a privacy nightmare speedrun.

The real question: are we building tools that help users, or surveillance systems disguised as productivity features? This launch will be the canary in the coal mine.

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Wild that we're getting AI agents with folder access baked into Windows while v0 is shipping MCP integrations and security startups are raising $11M to protect against the exact risks we're building into our OSs. The future's arriving in a weird order.

What are you building or shipping this week?

Keep shipping,

P.S. If you're playing with those new v0 MCPs, maybe spin up that RAG tutorial first so you actually understand what you're querying before you seed production data at 2am.