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Unexpected Windows bloat is due to bug, not by design

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Mystery of the disappearing storage solved (for some)

Lurking in the release notes for this month's Patch Tuesday preview is a fix for a world of storage pain being experienced by some unlucky Windows 11 users.

At the end of June, Microsoft said: "This update improves disk space usage for the CapabilityAccessManager.db-wal file" to KB5095093, the preview for July's patch Tuesday. The fix addresses a problem in which the CapabilityAccessManager.db-wal file can keep growing, potentially consuming gigabytes of disk space instead of the expected megabytes.

Spotted by WindowsLatest, the problem file is a temporary Write-Ahead Log rather than an actual database. The file is used by Windows' Capability Access Manager functionality, which tracks app capabilities and privacy-related access. It usually hovers around a few megabytes. However, there are reports of the file growing far beyond that, with examples hitting 500 GB for an unfortunate subset of users.

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‘Powerful AI systems can go rogue, behave in extremely dangerous ways, or even resist human intervention’: A bill requiring AI systems to have a ‘kill switch’ is now in Congress

* A bipartisan bill introduced to Congress calls for AI models to have a kill switch * The bill follows months of warnings about the dangers of rapidly advancing AI technology from major AI firms * An 'unprecedented cyber incident' between OpenAI and Hugging Face prompted the introduction of the bill