Sometimes ironic, always antifascist.
EU federalist believeing in the united continent.
| Location | European Union |
Sometimes ironic, always antifascist.
EU federalist believeing in the united continent.
| Location | European Union |
Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. โ That Privacy Guy!
https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/
> Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise tooling, and an automatic re-download every time the user deletes it.

Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise tooling, and an automatic re-download every time the user deletes it. The pattern is identical to the Anthropic Claude Desktop case I wrote about last month, but the scale is between two and three orders of magnitude larger. This article does the legal analysis and, for the first time, the environmental analysis. The numbers are not small.
Meet Hassam. Heโs been farming this land in Kamonyi District, Rwanda, since 1996.
He grows bananas, beans and maize โ and since 2021, has been planting trees across his farm with support from One Acre Fund and Ecosia. Over time, theyโve improved his soil and helped increase his harvests ๐ฑ
More reliable yields mean more dependable income. Hassam invests that in goats โ building security for his family and strengthening his livelihood.
๐บ Reclaiming digital autonomy at Dutch universities
With: Professor Albert Meijer ( @utrechtuniversity)
By: [email protected]

RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/116391881326692769
In order to unblock the Strait of Hormuz one must *checks notes* block the Strait of Hormuz.
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No, Signal has not been hacked. However, we do recommend turning off showing Signal content in notifications because the content is stored in memory on device. Apparently, this memory can be retrieved if an attacker has physical access to an unlocked device and has the right tool.
https://activistchecklist.org/signal/#signal-disable-notifications