The press cheers the back-to-school savings while ignoring that these always-on AI machines are built to vacuum up your kids' data.
Best Buy is hawking Microsoft's Copilot+ AI laptops to back-to-school families at discounts up to $730 — but nobody in the press is telling you these machines are always-on data harvesters built to vacuum up your children's information.
The retailer kicked its back-to-school push into high gear with Copilot+ PCs priced as low as $329.99, according to 9to5Toys, which covered the sale as straight consumer deals. The machines run on AMD's Ryzen AI 400-series and Intel's Core Ultra Series 3
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