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Oh God not this stupid tweet again. He's "hacking" it from a rooted phone. You can't just willy nilly edit those files like that on a normal phone. Fml I would've written a CN under that.

On top of that they didn't infiltrate anything.

The advanced flow is perfectly reasonable and I'm 100% sure there will be Magisk based bypasses for it if you absolutely require Google services + APK installs. The percentage of people installing legit 3rd party APKs is miniscule compared to the number of elderly scammed by these shitty apps. Glad Google is taking steps to close this security hole. Just wait the damn 24h you impatient "poweruser". 100% sure that there won't be a full lockdown or an extension of the timeout cuz this is gonna close most, if not all of the holes for these shitty apps.

How is this unreasonable? This is to prevent cases where people are told to urgently install the app while on a call, so the call has to be broken and person has a day to actually do something about the call.

Are you that zoomer brained to not be able to wait a day to install your APK?

Seriously? Not even the DOD partnership?

Oh boy. They don't host these ads, there are plenty of ad providers that happily do though, outside of Google businesses (Meta). Google also isn't one homogenous business, Android people don't have direct access to the ads people.

This is about scams because 99% of all apk installs come not from basement power users installing cracked apps, but from the older people that are all too trusting to the internet that they're browsing.

No real counter argument? Do better HN

A lot of you have never seen your loved ones get some shitty app on their phones and it shows.

You live in a bubble. The roles are inversed. This is "ruining" Android for the 0.001% of power users that install .apk files and improving it for the huge chunk of population that are still getting hit by malicious ads that try to push app installs onto you.

Just a few days saw a post about LLMs being excellent at reasoning because they're not limited by the language, sure buddy, now walk your fucking car.

No, neither of them register as a blip on the usage stats and both have, and will continue having, priority access through OEM partnerships.

It's not that difficult, plenty of ROMs exist, and analogues of all the apps exist as well.

See for yourself: https://www.ifixit.com/News/96998/from-0-10-to-8-10-microsof...

AMD USB4 is a joke. Every unplug is a gamble with amdgpu driver, you might get a working system, you might not, same for suspend-resume cycles.

Apparently Surface laptops come with stellar repair guides now, and they improved repairability greatly. MS doing something nice for once?

As someone not swimming in piles of cash, I can't bring myself to get a framework laptop. Ironically enough, new ThinkPads, which are on sale pretty regularly, end up being much nicer, solidly built, more performant, and with an awesome warranty, even in my shithole region.

They do have their own fork, they just don't have any of the security infra that google does. So they "rely" on Google for that.

Forbes as always top notch journalism, what does Samsung have to do with Google updates and why are they indirectly blamed for Samsung's slowness?..

Elaborate please. PI on its own is just an insurance API for banking and similar apps to ensure that they can do secure compute on the device. It can also be used to check if the device that the app is running on is a genuine Android device, since no VMs or custom ROMs can pass hardware integrity.

It's nowhere near that. Pretty sure even modules are signed by Google.

> It's quite surreal how unsafe the standard Android

Well that's untrue. I'd even venture to say that with how many OEMs there are it's insane how safe Android is. Google for one updates their devices for 7 years since Pixel 6, they can't control OEMs who might have ~10 people working on their devices.

Yep. And GrapheneOS's changes to the kernels of devices they ship are laughably small, 20-30 commits at most. I don't think they even do any basic CVE checks on any of the source code.

Fuzzing, actual security analysis - all those things are done by Google.

Google most likely reimplemented AWDL, and the article is wrong. Sure the EU's actions will affect the optics, but Apple will be in the clear if they decide to nuke this.

I hate AI as much as the next guy but to pretend that Google assistant was in any way better than Gemini is insane. I went for 10 years giving the assistant a try every time I got a new phone and it always straight up sucked. Forgot the exact name of the lamp? Good luck, I'm not changing its color. Wanna hold a conversation that isn't just "tell a joke"? Forget it. Asking it to convert one measurement into another was also a complete lottery.

Gemini is a lot better at it, and while yes, it makes typical LLM mistakes, I can't wait for the day when we're able to use a locally running model for it.

Author finds out they're colour blind.

So make one.

https://docs.qualcomm.com/ is pretty open.

Like EMUI from Huawei or Xiaomi's HyperOS? Be real. Nothing is gonna come of it.

unless you are 100% card-less you can already get locked out of banks easily. Your digital ID already exists, it's just that you don't have a card with it yet.

As others stated: KYC killed private banking. Good.

Qcom is one of the few SoC manufacturers in the Android space to do all their thing out in the open and properly honouring the GPL-v2 licences.

Cooked how exactly? - Completely missed out on the LLM boom, just like everyone except nvidia. - Apple never used qcom SoCs, just their modems, Google doesn't even register on the radar of sales, their first foray into SoCs isn't great. - Idk where you get that, they still hold the entire market in their firm grasp and Nuvia stuff has been nothing but outstanding, it's just a shame that MS are cowards and dropped the Windows-on-Arm stuff again. - Google are partnering with them for the Android on PC projects.

I hope they provide better Linux support for the next gen PC grade chips.