From Newsgroup: alt.privacy.anon-server
A 4GB file called weights.bin may be sitting on your hard drive right
now, put there by Chrome without your knowledge.
You didn't install it. You weren't asked. You may not have even known
it was there. But if you use Google Chrome on a desktop computer,
there's a reasonable chance that a 4GB AI model called Gemini Nano is
sitting on your hard drive right now, placed there automatically by
Chrome sometime between late April and early May 2026. Security
researcher Alexander Hanff flagged the silent rollout, which affects
eligible devices running recent versions of Chrome and offers no
consent screen, no pop-up and no setting to straightforwardly prevent
it.
Privacy advocates say the practice may violate European data law.
Here's how to check your machine -- and remove the file, at least
temporarily.
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