Yes, buying a Google phone to escape Google! Hence various folks are excited Lenovo are joining the effort. GrapheneOS has a laundry list of requirements only Tensor/Pixel could meet. The latest Snapdragon-powered Moto Signature announced this week does now.

Later revisions of the ARM spec, such as MTE are supposed to segfault when performing an illegal op in C code, you'd hope security bug reports would flow upstream to fix coding errors - their Wikipedia page lists a Bluetooth fault that was patched.

( But notably this hardening isn't on by default because consumers don't want their phone crashing unexpectedly? )

Curious from Moto is that they intend supporting this flagship device for 7 years - their low end stuff historically has NOT been well supported. Being frugal, I am tempted just to get a low end Samsung running bloated stock - they offer 6 years of security updates at least.

Yeah disappointed with Fuchsia. IIRC, they tried porting Chromium, Dart, Linux virtualization and the android runtime to run on the Zircon.

Aside from that Nest thingee, not sure why it never reached maturity, even as a flashable ROM for the Pixel 10, say.

I guess the future of microkernels is hobby projects like RedoxOS and SculptOS.

None, thanks.

If I need a virtual friend, I can open a tab and navigate myself to copilot/deepseek/grok/gemini websites.

Remember the backlash when you integrated Pocket?

I read the article, nothing.

Apparently we're supposed to connect the dots, Wordpress.

Immortality. Dead billionaires in cryo.

You model how a brain would respond to stimulus before training it on actual brains.

According to Futurama, by the year 3000 we'll have Richard Nixon's head in a jar running for the US presidency.

What is an 'adbomen'? Oops.

Gang, I know they're called lap-tops but most people sit at a table.

It's partly optics. Concerns about AI pushing up power prices by competing with small business and households.

Here Google (and Microsoft, in the article) are increasing capacity by bringing back mothballed generators with a generous loan.

du hast mich gefragt, und ich hab nichts gesagt

Maybe 2 years ago... The other models are catching up. Claude, Grok, Gemini, Deepseek, Perplexity, Meta.ai etc,

ChatGPT could die tomorrow and would anyone care, honestly.

I inherited a Lenovo machine that booted Linux from 'ROM', i.e. a secret partition on the SATA drive accessible from a button on startup.

I think it was a Windows 7 starter edition machine that was so underpowered it was a proof of concept if you got fed up with the main OS it would boot into 'lightweight' Linux.

So yeah baking a live CD into recovery partition is nothing new.

How will they ever catch the Hamburglar if he's running GrapheneOS?

I am one of the 3%. My mother says I'm special!

But (a) it's written in Rust because Mozilla didn't trust C++ (b) Google did the implementation so it's an example of both parties collaborating regardless of the Chromium/Gecko divide.

Sony still has their 'Open Devices' platform, focusing on Sailfish? They exited the Australian market some years ago, so I haven't seen an Xperia in many years.

Pinephone is all but dead, so the era of open handsets appears at an end.

But Lenovo going above and beyond here might have flow on effects for other projects through documentation.

They're planning on using security features from Snapdragon.

Entry level Moto phones come with Mediatek.