SecurityWeek

Chrome 149 Patches 429 Vulnerabilities

Chrome 149 was released with patches for 429 vulnerabilities, including over 100 critical and high-severity bugs.
SecurityWeek

VS Code Vulnerability Allows One-Click GitHub Token Theft

A researcher has disclosed details of a severe VS Code vulnerability that can be exploited to steal GitHub tokens and access ...
Ars Technica

Google publishes exploit code threatening millions of Chromium users

Google on Wednesday published exploit code for an unfixed vulnerability in its Chromium browser codebase that threatens millions of people using Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and virtually all other ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Hands On with the New Agents Window in VS Code 1.120

VS Code 1.120 brings the Agents window to Stable preview. The new window opens from a title-bar button. Agent customizations include Agents, Skills, Instructions, Hooks, MCP Servers and Plugins. It ...
PC World

Chrome silently downloads a 4GB AI model. Here’s how to remove it

Google’s Chrome browser is already a notorious storage hog, but now comes word that it’s crowding our PC drives in a new way: with a local AI model. That model ...
9to5google

Google Chrome takes up 4GB of storage on your computer for AI, if you have space

The ongoing march of AI features continues to go on, whether you want it to or not, and a recent update to Google Chrome probably installed a few gigabytes of local ...
The Verge

Chrome’s AI features may be hogging 4GB of your computer storage

Here’s how you can find out, and get that storage back if you need it. Here’s how you can find out, and get that storage back if you need it. is a news writer focused on creative industries, ...
Digital Trends

Google Chrome is installing a 4 GB AI model onto your device. Here’s how you can turn it off

While Google Chrome is still the most popular browser, it’s feeling the heat from the new wave of AI browsers, including Perplexity Comet, Dia, and more. To stay relevant, Google is adding new AI ...
TechSpot

Google Chrome has been silently pushing a 4GB AI model to your device without asking

Ripple effect: Google started turning Chrome, the world's most popular web browser, into an AI browser last year in response to threats from popular AI-native rivals such as OpenAI. Recent reports ...
Android

Google’s New Chrome Shortcut Aims to End Form-Filling Frustration

Google is testing a new Chrome feature called Autofill @memory. It integrates Gemini into browser text fields and allo users to open a searchable popup to manually select and insert saved personal ...
Wired

How to Use Google Chrome’s New AI-Powered ‘Skills’

The premade Skills available through the Gemini sidebar in Chrome include ways to maximize protein in recipes or summarize YouTube videos. You can set up your own ...
Android

Chrome’s New Update Locks Down Your Login to End Session Theft Attacks

Google has introduced Device Bound Session Credentials (DBSC) in Chrome 146 for Windows to combat session cookies theft. The feature makes useless stolen cookies so they cannot be used on other ...