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In brief Chrome has launched an on-device AI system that identifies and flags suspicious notifications on Android to protect users from scams—before they can cause harm. The new system leverages Gemini Nano’s capabilities to analyze notification content locally without sending data to Google’s servers, maintaining user privacy while fighting notification-based fraud. This automatic protection feature adds to Chrome’s existing security measures against notification abuse, and may expand to other platforms beyond Android in the future. Chrome is rolling out a defense system that catches scammy notifications before they can do harm. The browser’s latest update for Android devices now uses on-device machine learning to identify and flag suspicious notifications that might be trying to trick you into downloading sketchy software, or handing over personal information. Google confirmed Thursday that its new notification warning system is active, giving Android users an extra layer of security against an increasingly common form of mobile scam. “When a notification is flagged by Chrome, you’ll see the name of the site sending the notification, a message warning that the contents of the notification are potentially deceptive or spammy, and the option to either unsubscribe from the site or see the flagged content,” the Chromium team said in a blog post announcing the feature. Notification-based scams have become the digital equivalent of those annoying pop-up windows that plagued earlier versions of the internet—except now, they’re harder to spot. These new pests can even follow you even after you’ve left a website, which is why AI on your device works better than server-based AI, per Google’s assessment. “Leveraging LLMs on-device allows us to see threats when users see them. We’ve found that the average malicious site exists for less than 10 minutes, so on-device protection allows us to detect and block attacks that haven’t been crawled before.”…

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Filed under: News - @ May 9, 2025 10:29 pm