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Reçu — 19 mai 2026 ⏭

Google prépare une IA qui va surveiller vos paniers et vous dire si vos achats sont nuls

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Par : Adam Langumier
19 mai 2026 à 17:45

En pleine conférence Google I/O 2026, la firme de Mountain View a dévoilé l'Universal Cart : un panier d’achat universel entièrement dopé à l’IA. En quoi cela consiste réellement ?

Reçu — 13 mai 2026 ⏭
Reçu — 12 mai 2026 ⏭

Google Announces Its Chromebook Successor: the Googlebook

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Par : BeauHD
12 mai 2026 à 20:00
Google is teasing a new line of "Googlebook" laptops for this fall, powered by a new Android-and-ChromeOS-derived operating system that will run Chrome, Android apps, phone-connected apps and files, and deeply integrated Gemini features. The company says Chromebooks will continue "after the launch of Googlebook" and "...all Chromebooks will continue to receive support through their device's existing date commitment." The Verge reports: "We'll have more to share on the exact OS branding later this year," Peter Du of Google's global communications team tells The Verge. [...] Googlebooks will have a Magic Pointer feature that offers contextual suggestions whenever you shake your cursor and point it at something on the screen. Google's examples include setting up a meeting by pointing at a date in an email or selecting images of furniture and a living space to visualize them together. Beyond your mouse pointer, Googlebooks will also feature the custom AI-created widgets that Google is also debuting today for Android phones and Wear OS smartwatches. I don't know what kind of horrors people will be able to make into widgets, but Google gives the example of making one to organize your flights, hotel information, restaurant reservations, and another for creating a countdown timer for an upcoming family reunion. (It's always flights, hotels, and restaurants, isn't it?) While there are many outstanding questions to be answered about Googlebooks, the biggest and most obvious ones are what will these laptops look like, what chips will be in them, and what will they cost? We've got none of that so far. Google only has some initial renders of a mysterious Googlebook and the promise that it's working with Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, and Lenovo to make the first models. There are no model names. No specs. Nada. Google isn't even saying if the laptop in its renders is made by a partner or a tease of some first-party Pixel-like Googlebook to come or is just a cool mockup. The one distinct hardware feature shown, the bar of glowing Google-colored light, will be a signature of all Googlebooks. (Sure, bring on the RGB. Why not?)

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Reçu — 8 mai 2026 ⏭

Chrome Silently Installs a 4GB AI Model On Your Device Without Consent

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Par : BeauHD
8 mai 2026 à 16:00
Longtime Slashdot reader couchslug shares a report from That Privacy Guy's Alexander Hanff: Two weeks ago I wrote about Anthropic silently registering a Native Messaging bridge in seven Chromium-based browsers on every machine where Claude Desktop was installed. The pattern was: install on user launch of product A, write configuration into the user's installs of products B, C, D, E, F, G, H without asking. Reach across vendor trust boundaries. No consent dialog. No opt-out UI. Re-installs itself if the user removes it manually, every time Claude Desktop is launched. This week I discovered the same pattern, executed by Google. Google Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. The file is named weights.bin. It lives in OptGuideOnDeviceModel. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it. The legal analysis is the same one I gave for the Anthropic case. The environmental analysis is new. At Chrome's scale, the climate bill for one model push, paid in atmospheric CO2 by the entire planet, is between six thousand and sixty thousand tons of CO2-equivalent emissions, depending on how many devices receive the push. That is the environmental cost of one company unilaterally deciding that two billion peoples' default browser will mass-distribute a 4GB binary they did not request.

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Reçu — 7 mai 2026 ⏭

La patronne de Google Chrome défend l’installation forcée d’une IA sur votre PC : c’est pour votre bien

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Par : Julien Lausson
7 mai 2026 à 15:02

Google Chrome Gemini PC laptop ordinateur

Épinglé pour avoir installé silencieusement 4 Go d'intelligence artificielle dans Chrome, Google assume et s'explique. Pour le géant du web, imposer le modèle local Gemini Nano sans demander la permission est tout simplement le prix à payer pour protéger la vie privée des internautes.

Reçu — 6 mai 2026 ⏭

Chrome installe un modèle d’IA de 4 Go sur votre disque, sans demander la permission

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Par : Julien Cadot
6 mai 2026 à 15:18

L'une des dernières versions de Chrome installe en silence un fichier de 4 Go sur les ordinateurs compatibles : les poids du modèle Gemini Nano. Aucune notification, pas de bouton pour refuser, et la suppression manuelle ne tient pas.

Reçu — 27 avril 2026 ⏭

Ce développeur a trouvé le moyen le plus mignon de vous empêcher de scroller à l’infini

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Par : Lisa Imperatrice
27 avril 2026 à 13:30

Un développeur japonais propose une solution aussi absurde qu’efficace contre le scroll infini : faire apparaître un chat géant, pour vous obliger à lever le nez de votre écran.

Reçu — 14 avril 2026 ⏭

Chrome Now Lets You Turn AI Prompts Into Repeatable 'Skills'

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Par : BeauHD
14 avril 2026 à 19:00
Google is rolling out a Chrome feature called "Skills" that lets users save Gemini prompts as reusable one-click workflows they can run across multiple tabs. The feature also includes preset Skills from Google. It's launching first for Chrome desktop users set to US English. The Verge reports: Once you have access to the feature, it can be managed by typing a forward slash ( / ) in Gemini and clicking the compass icon. AI prompts can be saved as Skills directly from your Gemini chat history on desktop, where they'll then be available to reuse on any other desktop devices that are signed into the same Google account on Chrome. The aim is to spare Chrome users from having to manually retype frequently used Gemini prompts or having to copy and paste them over from a saved list. Some of the Skills made by early testers include commands for calculating the nutritional information of online recipes and creating a side-by-side comparison of product specifications while shopping across multiple tabs, according to Google. The company is also launching a library of preset Skills that you can save and use instead of making your own. These ready-to-use Skills can also be customized to better suit your needs, providing a starting point without requiring you to create your own from scratch.

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108 extensions, un seul pirate aux commandes ? Comment un immense réseau de pièges sur Chrome a contaminé des milliers de victimes

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Par : Amine Baba Aissa
14 avril 2026 à 13:50

Dans un article de blog publié le 13 avril 2026, les équipes de recherche de Socket révèlent que, pendant plusieurs mois, 108 extensions Chrome apparemment anodines ont secrètement œuvré pour le compte d’un même opérateur, exfiltrant des sessions, des identifiants Google et des données de navigation vers une infrastructure centralisée

Reçu — 13 avril 2026 ⏭

Comment voir le compteur de dislikes sur YouTube ?

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Par : Adam Langumier
13 avril 2026 à 16:09

Voilà quelques années que YouTube n'affiche plus les mentions « Je n'aime pas » (pouces rouges) pour les utilisateurs. Mais si la plateforme ne donne plus cette information, certaines astuces permettent quand même de les afficher. Voici la marche à suivre.

Reçu — 10 avril 2026 ⏭

DBSC : Google déploie sa nouvelle arme contre le piratage de sessions sur Chrome

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Par : Amine Baba Aissa
10 avril 2026 à 13:07

Depuis le 9 avril 2026, Google déploie une protection cryptographique dans Chrome 146 sur Windows, conçue pour neutraliser l'une des techniques les plus répandues dans l'arsenal des cybercriminels : le vol de cookies de session.

Reçu — 8 avril 2026 ⏭

C’est officiel, Google Chrome passe aux onglets verticaux

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Par : Nicolas Lellouche
8 avril 2026 à 08:08

Quelques semaines après leur apparition dans les canaux de test, les « onglets verticaux » de Chrome sont officiellement déployés dans le navigateur. Google veut faire gagner du temps aux personnes qui ouvrent trop d'onglets simultanément avec cette nouveauté.

Reçu — 7 avril 2026 ⏭

Chrome Is Finally Getting Vertical Tabs

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Par : BeauHD
7 avril 2026 à 21:00
Chrome is finally adding built-in vertical tabs, "which will move the tabs to the side of the browser window, making it easier to read full page titles and manage tab groups," reports TechCrunch. The company is also introducing an immersive reading mode for a distraction-free, text-focused experience. From the report: The company notes that the new vertical tabs can be enabled at any time by right-clicking on a Chrome window and selecting "Show Tabs Vertically." The company says there's no hard limit on the number of tabs that can be opened (beyond what would be limited already by the user's hardware). The vertical tabs work just as the horizontal tabs do, meaning you can have different Chrome windows with their own set of tabs or tab groups. [...] Alongside the launch of vertical tabs, Chrome is also rolling out a new Reading Mode experience, which will offer a full-page interface to make it even easier to reduce on-screen clutter to focus on the text. This will be the new default experience for Chrome users, and arrives at a time when web pages, particularly those on news sites, have become cluttered with ads and prompts to subscribe to newsletters.

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