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Google released Android 15 update to AOSP

Android 15 is finally available for AOSP (Android Open Source Project). However, Google has NOT yet rolled out Android 15 stable for its own Pixel smartphones. It's likely delayed due to platforms bugs and is expected to roll out next month,
mid-October.


The Android 15 update brings several new features and changes like Private Space, which creates a separate profile that users can hide apps in, a screen recording detection API, predictive back gesture, changes to background activity launches etc. You can view full list of changes in Android 15 here.

Android 15 won't seem like a major update as many features will get shipped with QPRs releases such as Audio Sharing, a revamped Desktop Mode, the Tiny Taskbar, lock screen widgets etc. However, apart from Google, most OEMs don't incorporate platform changes in QPRs into their updates.

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Samsung Galaxy S25 Series Lineup will only use Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 Chipset

All models of Galaxy S25 series across the lineup, irrespective of the country/region, will be powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 For Galaxy or the Leading Version chipset, instead of Exynos 2500. This is a different strategy from the Galaxy S24, which uses Samsung's self-developed 'Exynos' and Qualcomm's 'Snapdragon' together.

The Exynos 2500 is said to be reserved to power the next gen Samsung Galaxy Z Foldables. It makes sense though because the Exynos 2500 will be ready by that time since Samsung foldables will debut in second-half of 2025

For now, Samsung's semiconductor division will focus on improving the performance and stability of the Exynos 2500 chip. Samsung Device Solutions business has reportedly ordered executives of its foundry business to improve its 3nm and more advanced semiconductor chip fabrication processes to secure competitiveness in the market.

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Samsung plans to deploy facial authentication to prevent leaks

Samsung is reportedly attempting to prevent "trade secret" leaks by implementing a new facial recognition technology which will require employees working remotely to have their faces scanned from six angles before gaining access to Samsung's systems.

The system also enables continuous surveillance & is designed so that if the employee leaves the computer and the facial recognition tech no longer detects them or detects another person even, it shuts down the monitor. Samsung Display division has already started testing this new authentication system and Samsung Electronics, Samsung SDI, and Samsung SDS, are employing this new authentication system as well.

The labor union has raised privacy concerns. However, last year only, an ex-Samsung Display researcher who worked for the Samsung Display for 10 years conspired with other researchers to leak Samsung Display OLED technologies to display Chinese companies.

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Nokia Plans to Sell Mobile Networking Business to Samsung

Acc to bloomberg, Nokia Networks has struggled to compete with Ericsson and Huawei. So, the company discussed all the possible options with its advisors, which included selling some or all of the division or merging with one of its rivals.

Nokia's telecom equipment business is reportedly worth $10 billion. Samsung Electronics has shown interest in the acquisition to improve its Radio Access Network (RAN) segment. RAN helps connect smartphones to the rest of the telecom infrastructure.
If the deal happens, Samsung's RAN market share would jump from 6.1% last to 25.6% which would make Samsung the world's 2nd-biggest RAN supplier, just behind Huawei (31.3%) and ahead of Ericsson (24.3%)

Nokia obviously declined the report.
Samsung already makes 4G and 5G base stations, chipsets, devices, radios, and core equipment. It has supplied equipment to Telus, O2 Telefรณnica, Reliance Jio, NTT DoCoMo, Dish, Verizon, Vodafone etc

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Introducing NVIDIA GPU Purse with Fan

"Show off your wealth in the form of a GPU. This accessory has an external fan that spins and an Nvidia GT 730 card. Suitable for carrying a smartphone and small items."
"Limited edition. I will make about 10 more in the next few weeks. Available in long or short chain," the creator of the project specified.

Priced at 1025$ and available to purchase at gpupurse.com

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Bluetooth 6.0 Announced

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) released the Bluetooth Core Specification version 6.0. One of the major features of Bluetooth 6.0 is "Channel Sounding," a feature that will bring "true distance awareness" to billions of future Bluetooth devices and accessories. This technology will achieve "centimeter-level accuracy over considerable distances," making it easier and quicker for users to locate lost items and will thus improve the Find My networks from companies like Apple, Google & Tile.

Bluetooth 6.0 also enhances ISOAL (Isochronous Adaptation Layer). ISOAL allows larger data frames to be transmitted in smaller packets and reconstituted later. A new framing mode introduced in this spec reduces latency and improves reliability. Other changes introduced in Bluetooth 6.0 include Decision-based Advertising Filtering, an extended feature set for link-layer, and advertiser monitoring and frame space improvements.

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Forwarded from Pavel Durov (Paul Du Rove)
โค๏ธ Thanks everyone for your support and love!

Last month I got interviewed by police for 4 days after arriving in Paris. I was told I may be personally responsible for other peopleโ€™s illegal use of Telegram, because the French authorities didnโ€™t receive responses from Telegram.

This was surprising for several reasons: 

1. Telegram has an official representative in the EU that accepts and replies to EU requests. Its email address has been publicly available for anyone in the EU who googles โ€œTelegram EU address for law enforcementโ€. 

2. The French authorities had numerous ways to reach me to request assistance. As a French citizen, I was a frequent guest at the French consulate in Dubai. A while ago, when asked, I personally helped them establish a hotline with Telegram to deal with the threat of terrorism in France.

3. If a country is unhappy with an internet service, the established practice is to start a legal action against the service itself. Using laws from the pre-smartphone era to charge a CEO with crimes committed by third parties on the platform he manages is a misguided approach. Building technology is hard enough as it is. No innovator will ever build new tools if they know they can be personally held responsible for potential abuse of those tools. 

Establishing the right balance between privacy and security is not easy. You have to reconcile privacy laws with law enforcement requirements, and local laws with EU laws. You have to take into account technological limitations. As a platform, you want your processes to be consistent globally, while also ensuring they are not abused in countries with weak rule of law. Weโ€™ve been committed to engaging with regulators to find the right balance. Yes, we stand by our principles: our experience is shaped by our mission to protect our users in authoritarian regimes. But weโ€™ve always been open to dialogue.

Sometimes we canโ€™t agree with a countryโ€™s regulator on the right balance between privacy and security. In those cases, we are ready to leave that country. We've done it many times. When Russia demanded we hand over โ€œencryption keysโ€ to enable surveillance, we refused โ€” and Telegram got banned in Russia. When Iran demanded we block channels of peaceful protesters, we refused โ€” and Telegram got banned in Iran. We are prepared to leave markets that arenโ€™t compatible with our principles, because we are not doing this for money. We are driven by the intention to bring good and defend the basic rights of people, particularly in places where these rights are violated.

All of that does not mean Telegram is perfect. Even the fact that authorities could be confused by where to send requests is something that we should improve. But the claims in some media that Telegram is some sort of anarchic paradise are absolutely untrue. We take down millions of harmful posts and channels every day. We publish daily transparency reports (like this or this ). We have direct hotlines with NGOs to process urgent moderation requests faster.

However, we hear voices saying that itโ€™s not enough. Telegramโ€™s abrupt increase in user count to 950M caused growing pains that made it easier for criminals to abuse our platform. Thatโ€™s why I made it my personal goal to ensure we significantly improve things in this regard. Weโ€™ve already started that process internally, and I will share more details on our progress with you very soon. 

I hope that the events of August will result in making Telegram โ€” and the social networking industry as a whole โ€” safer and stronger. Thanks again for your love and memes ๐Ÿ™
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Android 15 will make it harder for thieves to bypass FRP

Android has a security mechanism called Factory Reset Protection (FRP) that is activated when you first associate a Google account with your device. It kicks in when the device undergoes an untrusted factory reset, such as a factory reset triggered from recovery mode, asking user to sign-in to google account to confirm identity.

Android stores a key in a persistent data block that survives factory resets, so even if another factory reset is forced on the device, FRP will still kick in. However, there are ways for thieves to bypass it entirely. Thus, Google is making changes to FRP, making it much harder to bypass.

1. Enabling the OEM unlocking setting will NO longer prevent FRP from activating.
2. Adding a new Google account is blocked.
3. Setting a lock screen PIN or password is blocked.
4. Installing new apps is blocked.
5. Bypassing the setup wizard will NO longer deactivate FRP.
Click HERE to read about it in detail.

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Android 16 will bring New Quick Settings Style and Notification Panel

While tinkering with the latest Android 15 QPR beta, Mishaal Rahman managed to activate a new version of the notification and Quick Settings (QS) panels that is likely intended for the Android 16 release. With the Android 16, notifications and QS will be separated, thus allowing the former to show more notifications & the latter to show more tiles and buttons.

Pulling down the status bar once still brings down the notifications panel but only on the quarter of the screen. While you canโ€™t see any QS tiles anymore, but you can see the app thatโ€™s underneath the panel. However, the bad news is that, the QS tiles needs to be accessed by pulling down the status bar with two fingers.

Since its spotted on A15 QPR Beta 1, this design overhaul is still quite unfinished for eg light mode sucks, many things are missing such as icons of many tiles and many things will be changed too before A16 drops next year.

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Google Goes All-In with TSMC

Google tensor G4 chip manufactured by Samsung Foundry on its 4nm process. However, it was a minor upgrade over the Tensor G3 in the pixel 8 series as reflected by benchmarks & even the G4 itself is codenamed 'Zuma Pro' while G3 is 'Zuma'. G4 still utilizes Samsung's older FO-PLP packaging instead of the newer FO-WLP, which played a key role in resolving heating issues in the Exynos 2400โ€”unlike its predecessors.

Now with Tensor G5, Google is not only switching to TSMC, but it will made it on the latest 3nm node & will also utilize TSMC's InFO-POP advanced packaging.
Tensor G6 to power Pixel 11 series, likely codenamed 'malibu', will also be manufactured by TSMC only on its latest 2nm process

FunFact: Apple's Foundational Models, both on device and server, for Apple Intelligence were fully trained on Google TPU clusters instead of NVIDIA.
Google's Axion, its first custom Arm-cores based TPU v5p for datacenters, is also made on TSMC 3nm N3E node

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OnePlus Denies Motherboard Issues with OnePlus 10 Pro and 9 Pro Flagships

Recently, many OnePlus 10 Pro, 9 Pro and 9RT users reported a critical issue with the motherboard, causing it to crash suddenly and then RIP. It started happening after August or July updates were pushed to their smartphones.The phone would either kept beeping & froze or would show battery error. For some, the device would lag & then heat up before shutting down completely.

OnePlus in their investigation claimed that they found NO design or quality flaws with the motherboards while their service center themselves claimed that motherboard needs to be changed with the affected units. OnePlus also says that there isnโ€™t sufficient amount of reported cases & thus provided NO resolution of FREE motherboard replacement.

OnePlus's money-making strategy:
> Release a flagship product
> Wait for warranty to get over
> Release a wrong incremental update
> Motherboard gets RIP
> Asks user to purchase latest OnePlus phone

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Xiaomi's in-house SoC Rumours
DigiTimes

Xiaomi will release its own customized mobile SoC in the first half of 2025 made in partnership with UNISOC lol and manufactured by TSMC on its N4P 4nm process. The performance of this chip will range in b/w Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 and 8 Gen 2

CPU:
โ€ข 1x Cortex-X3
โ€ข 3x Cortex-A715
โ€ข 4x Cortex-A510

GPU: IMG CXT 48-1536
5G Modem by UNISOC

You can call that it's an attempt by Xiaomi to get similar privileges or huge subsidies which Huawei gets from the government for their everything made-in-China and self-developed goal.

Xiaomi has already begun the tapeout process for its chip, designed by its subsidiary 'Xuanjie'. Xuanjie was established in 2021, headed by Xiaomi's Senior Vice President and former UNISOC CEO Adam Zeng. In 2023, Xiaomi began to double down on its chip development efforts by increasing capital investment in Shanghai Xuanjie and establishing a separate Beijing Xuanjie subsidiary, headed by Zeng.

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Forwarded from Lawnchair News (Rik Breaks Everything)
Been a while huh...

Today Lawnchair 14 got approved by @GooglePlay!

Enjoy Lawnchair 14 on the Play Store by joining the beta, download Lawnchair here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.lawnchair.play

Alongside that, you are now able to download Lawnicons (based on 2.11.0, ~5000 icons) at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.lawnchair.lawnicons.play

For those oldschool people still enjoying Lawnchair 2, it will stick around for a while, it will now be known as Lawnchair Legacy!

Lawnchair Legacy will probaply not stay forever, as Google keeps increasing the minimum sdk version. Lawnchair Legacy already is already being blocked to download on some devices.
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