The 4GB on-device AI model, supposedly for Gemini Nano, is installed without consent or opt-in, and even re-downloads itself ...

New Windows 11 control: A registry setting now lets users block Chrome and Edge from downloading local AI models without permission. Privacy concerns raised: The ...

Microsoft recently introduced a registry setting in Windows 11 to block Google Chrome’s automatic 4GB AI model download.

Google Chrome will steal 4 GB of disk space from your computer for its local large language model unless you opted out. It's ...

Even if you aren’t using Google Gemini, it might be using your device. Security researcher Alexander Hanff, also known as ...

You might not have asked for an AI model on your computer, but you might have gotten it anyway. Google Chrome has been ...

Update: Google has passed along a statement regarding this background download: "We’ve offered Gemini Nano for Chrome since ...

Google Chrome silently installs a 4GB AI Model on desktop systems without user consent. Learn how to find and delete it to ...

Google Chrome reportedly downloads a 4GB Gemini Nano AI model silently on Windows and macOS, raising privacy and storage concerns.

Private peer-to-peer AI on your own hardware. Zero cloud. Zero data sent. DeepSeek, Llama, Mistral and 15+ models on ...

If a website tells you to manually install a “Windows update” from a big blue download button, close that tab immediately. Malwarebytes has just spotted a fake Microsoft support website ...

If you notice the Google Chrome folder has suddenly grown by several gigabytes, there is no need to panic. This storage spike is caused by the browser automatically download a large “weights.bin” file ...