Chrome quietly pushed a 4GB Gemini Nano AI model to users, while a fake Perplexity extension wiretapped searches. Two sides of Chrome's consent problem.

Discord users are facing a growing wave of account hijackings that turn their profiles into tools for cybercriminals spreading scams.

The campaign spans npm, Packagist, Go, and Chrome, using obfuscated JavaScript loaders and VS Code tasks to deliver malware.

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Anthropic’s AI coding agent silently encoded proxy hostnames and Chinese timezone data into invisible Unicode characters ...

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Chrome Has Been Secretly Downloading AI to Your Computer. Here's What You Can Do ...

Chrome has been automatically downloading Gemini Nano (a 4GB AI model) to users' computers without notification or an easy way to prevent it. Alex Valdes from Bellevue, Washington has been pumping ...

Leaked screenshots suggest Anthropic may be testing a mobile version of Claude Cowork The rumored update would let users start, monitor, and adjust long-running AI workflows from their phones while ...

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Your privacy took several hits this week—from Meta's latest changes to exposed passports and an Apple email leak. Here's what ...

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