Without notice or consent, Chrome has been downloading the hefty Gemini Nano model to run AI locally on your computer.

Here's how to delete Chrome's weights.bin file and disable Gemini Nano to reclaim your storage space on Windows and macOS.

On May 4, 2026, Alexander Hanff, a computer scientist and lawyer who runs the website ThatPrivacyGuy.com, posted an article ...

Google Chrome automatically downloads an AI model to support features such as scam detection and tab organization. Here's how ...

If you use Google Chrome on your computer, the browser has silently installed an on-device AI model without your knowledge.

Google Chrome VP and GM Parisa Tabriz has responded to backlash over Chrome's practice of silently downloading a 4GB Gemini ...

Game Pass Ultimate has dropped in price from $29.99 to $22.99 a month, as well as PC Game Pass from $16.49 to $13.99, and future Call of Duty titles will no longer be available via Game Pass Ultimate ...

Marshall Gunnell is a Tokyo-based tech journalist and editor with over a decade of experience covering IT, cybersecurity and data storage. Alongside CNET, his work has appeared in ZDNET, Business ...

The office on Thursday said Loblaw had the mechanism to respond to requests but took an unreasonable amount of time to address them, and that it also failed to respond to some privacy-related ...

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