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

A privacy researcher discovered Chrome is silently pushing a 4GB Gemini Nano model to user devices with no consent prompt, no notification, and no easy way to stop it. And the “AI Mode” feature you ...

You can nix Chrome's 4GB local AI model in just a few clicks, but you'll lose some functionality in the process.

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

Dive into The Register's online archive of incisive tech news reporting, features, and analysis dating back to 1998 ...