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Google Chrome 'silently' downloads 4GB AI model to your device without permission, report claims — researcher says practice may violate EU law, waste thousands of kilowatts of energy

Security researcher Alexander Hanff, also known as "That Privacy Guy," has published a new analysis claiming that Google Chrome is silently downloading a roughly 4GB on-device AI model to users' machines without notice or consent. …

May 6, 2026 · Zak Killian
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Apple's Hide My Email service reportedly reveals users' actual email addresses with little effort — Cupertino has seemingly known about the problem for a year but has yet to fix it

… There are no further updates, it seems, and this is poor optics for a company that talks a big game about user data privacy . Neither the researcher nor 404 media divulged the exact mechanism, despite the one-year timeframe being well past the common 90-day security vulnerability disclosure window. …

Jul 2, 2026 · Bruno Ferreira
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Trump administration reportedly reviving push to ban Chinese AI models following Kimi K3 launch, citing cybersecurity concerns — downloadable open weights could make an outright U.S. ban nearly impossible to enforce amid growing adoption

… Department of Commerce last year considered adding multiple Chinese AI labs, including DeepSeek, to its "Entity List," a trade blacklist maintained by the department’s Bureau of Industry and Security BIS that limits foreign companies, research institutions, governments, and individuals from purchas… …

Jul 20, 2026 · Etiido Uko
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Nvidia's RTX Spark could caplitalize where Qualcomm's Arm-based efforts have not —  following the expiration of Qualcomm's Windows on Arm deal, Nvidia stands poised to pick up the slack

… The two companies built the agent security stack together at the operating-system level: identity, containment, and policy primitives in Windows, paired with OpenShell's ability to route queries to local models based on a user's privacy rules and to mask personal information in queries sent to the … …

Jun 1, 2026 · Luke James

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