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:
📁 %LOCALAPPDATA%\Google\Chrome\User Data\OptGuideOnDeviceModel
To stop it: chrome://flags → disable Optimization Guide On Device Model → restart Chrome → delete the folder.
Reshare so people know what's sitting on their computers.
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Firefox ships with Google as the default search engine.
DOJ filings in the Google search case say Google's 2024 revenue-share payment to Mozilla was approximately $484.5 million, representing about 85% of Mozilla's global revenue.
You cannot market yourself as the privacy alternative while your default is the largest surveillance advertising company on the internet and your survival depends on its money.
Firefox's own Privacy Notice is more revealing than its marketing.
The landing page says Firefox is built with privacy as the default, that Mozilla does not know much about you, and that "not even Mozilla should know which websites you visit or what you do there."
Then the notice describes the exceptions.
Firefox shows Search Suggestions by default. As you type, your real-time search query and technical data are sent to your search provider.
Firefox Suggest can also fetch suggestions from Mozilla as you type. The notice says your real-time search query, technical data, interaction data, and IP-derived location data pass through that system by default before being processed for suggestions and measurement.
Sponsored suggestions are part of this. Mozilla partners can receive de-identified search and interaction data to serve relevant suggestions and measure engagement.
New Tab is also an ad surface.
Firefox shows New Tab content "along with advertising to support its development." Mozilla collects views, clicks, position, size, and other interaction data on New Tab content and ads. It can use this to personalize future content, including sponsored content, and share aggregated or de-identified data with advertising partners.
In some regions, Mozilla says it builds models and groups users based on common attributes to personalize future content, including sponsored content.
Mozilla also says it works with advertising providers using programmatic technologies and may share device type, IP-derived location, and category of content viewed to help decide which ads to display.
Linux sets rules for AI-generated code
After months of debate, the Linux community has agreed on clear rules for using AI-generated code.
Tools like GitHub Copilot are allowed, but maintainers have made it clear that low-quality “AI slop” will not be accepted.
> “Humans take the fall for mistakes.”
This means developers can use AI to help write code, but they are fully responsible for checking it, fixing errors, and making sure it meets Linux’s standards.
The decision is backed by Linus Torvalds and kernel maintainers
@incel_aidigino Ho scritto alcuni libri, narrativa amatoriale, nessuna casa editrice li pubblicherebber mai, ma se potessi farci un film semplicemente dando in pasto a una IA i miei racconti, lo farei subito!