May 3 – May 9

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AI / Security / Privacy:

I started to write up some things about AI as it pertains to Design last week and I thought I was going to post it but it’s still so messy that I haven’t.

In the meantime, this last week, Google decided that Chrome would install Gemini nano which made a lot of people unhappy … for a lot of the wrong reasons though (do you know how much data you’re regularly transferring? Probably not.) IF you want to understand what it does (and doesn’t) do and/or how to disable it:

Really though, if you expect more (privacy, choice, whatever), you should be using a browser that is not Chrome.

Devs that don’t want to touch AI though:

I’m fine if you want to create without using it but by not checking for security flaws that main models can quickly find, you are putting your users at risk. I don’t want to download or use software where the developer(s) are so vehemently against AI that they are ignoring this problem. If you don’t, the hackers will (and worse is it you are vocal online about never ever ever ever using AI, it also makes your software a target.) Especially if you have your code on Github and it’s not just a personal project, check it? Please?

Let me explain my logic a bit more visually:

The bugs found by Mozilla https://hacks.mozilla.org/2026/05/behind-the-scenes-hardening-firefox/

Firefox Security Bug Fixes by Month - drastic increase in fixes for April 2026. Far exceeding any other month.

AND every Linux distribution shipped since 2017 needs to be patched: https://copy.fail/

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