I'm a huge advocate for mentoring and menteeing. I receive some invaluable pieces of information each meeting /week. Going to share some insights now and again.
do you understand what just happened to your computer..
Google Chrome secretly downloaded a 4GB AI model onto your device. Without asking.. Without telling you..
It's called weights.bin. It lives deep in your system folders. It powers Gemini Nano - Google's on-device AI.
And if you delete it? Chrome re-downloads it automatically. Like nothing happened.
Just Google deciding your hard drive is their storage unit.
At 1 billion Chrome users - that's 4 BILLION gigabytes of data pushed silently across the internet.
The carbon footprint alone equals tens of thousands of cars running for a year.
Check your disk right now:
๐ %LOCALAPPDATA%\Google\Chrome\User Data\OptGuideOnDeviceModel
To stop it: chrome://flags โ disable Optimization Guide On Device Model โ restart Chrome โ delete the folder.
Reshare so people know what's sitting on their computers.
When the 23yo KPMG consultant during the SOC2 audit asks if weโve ever had an incident (weโre not gonna talk about the sysadmin downloading and running free_fortnite_vbucks.exe while RDPโd into the esxi server)
Good morning and Happy Thursday to everyone who is determined to turn up the volume and EXPOSE all of the brutal, deadly consequences of abortion bans in America.
They're not "pro-life."
They're pro controlling women's bodies.
Linux Foundation Cloud Engineer Program (Beginner) vs a year of KodeKloud?
Asking for a friend. Anyone used Linux Foundation, does it have labs?
#infosec#linux#it#tech
Their program is on discount atm:
https://t.co/vwbA9DDZlk