Chrome Is Quietly Installing a 4GB AI Model on Your Computer—And Putting It Back If You Delete It

In brief Chrome silently downloads a ~4GB Gemini Nano file called weights.bin to eligible devices with no opt-in prompt, and automatically re-downloads it if deleted. Chrome’s “AI Mode” button in the address bar routes queries to Google’s cloud servers—the local 4GB model doesn’t power it. Privacy researcher Alexander Hanff argues the behavior violates the EU…

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Predicting temporal stability and resilience from resistance and recovery

Here we develop an approach for predicting temporal stability and resilience from their resistance and recovery components. We began by considering a common measure of temporal stability, the inverse of the coefficient of variation, and defined similar measures of resistance, recovery and resilience that are also the inverse of a deviation. Given that the predicted…

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