I’ve also been on the beta. Overall Android doesn’t seem to have really change though, aside from maybe better battery life and minor aesthetic changes.

I side loaded it and it works great!

A week ago I got my phone screen repaired. The best current workaround for this is to enable profile modes and enable Guest Mode. They can’t access anything else on your phone this way and can still test everything.

Almost seems like the scratching of the phone is intentional. It would bring down the resale costs of the device and make them harder to trade in, and prompts consumers to think their phone is older than it really is in order to get them to buy a new one.

Not to mention that the heating issues on iPhone 15 are going to kill the battery faster than previous phones that do not overheat.

Added it to the description, thanks!

Mine is also still working here in the US

I’m not sure it does have temperature tracking, unless it’s just locked right now.

I skimmed to try and to find the details on that but couldn’t find if it’s US only or not.

Oops! Fixed the title

I read the opposite! There is indeed WiFi 7

https://www.91mobiles.com/hub/google-pixel-8-pro-specifications-revealed/

In computer security, you always have to consider both physical and digital security. They go hand in hand.

You can put as many passwords on a computer as you want but as soon as you have local access to a computer or storage device it’s game over.

Check out the 8 security domains in relation to computer security.

https://www.itgovernance.co.uk/blog/the-8-cissp-domains-explained#asset-security

If you yank out an SD card on it from a phone that was forgotten behind:

1. You now have access to all of the potentially unencrypted files on it
2. Threat actors can replace trusted files with malicious ones to exploit potential vulnerabilities in applications running on the Android device
3. In 5 seconds you’ve walked away with it, as opposed to a laptop which requires you to physically unscrew it

If you have a phone without an SD card they only have access to the USB port, which is locked with software and in some cases hardware. Removing the SD card slot is one less attack vector, it will make the device more secure one way or another.

Leaving your laptop around someone can also yank the SSD. Modern laptop operating systems generally have the option to encrypt their storage devices.

You can encrypt microSD cards but you must do file transfers through the phone itself through USB which I guess is no different than having an encrypted drive on a laptop. I haven’t looked into how modern SD encryption works on Android.

https://www.engadget.com/2011-01-29-android-2-3-security-bug-shows-microsd-access-vulnerability.html

https://www.techtimes.com/articles/233214/20180813/android-exploit-uses-sd-cards-heres-how-to-protect-yourself-against-man-in-the-disk-attacks.htm

It’s been well documented. They can also use them to place malicious files on and potentially gain access to the phone by having the Android phone read them and run malicious code.

Yes, temperature sensor! I couldn’t tell you why, but maybe they have some super secret feature planned.

https://www.engadget.com/googles-latest-pixel-8-pro-leak-shows-temperature-sensor-colors-and-more-093055198.html

No SD slot no. Modern smartphones don’t have them anymore since they are a security risk.

I’m probably the odd one out, and I used to be infuriated by the idea that my phone didn’t have a headphone jack, but I got used to not having it.

I only use wireless headphones now, and I have a USB-C adapter I can use in case I do want to use an aux port. Have been tempted to buy some decent “Chi-Fi” wired earphones, I do miss higher quality sound.

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I’d bet there’s a CSAM test image dataset with innocuous images that get picked up by the script. Not sure how the system works, but if it’s through hashes then it would be pretty simple to add that to the script.

Why is it that when companies start making good money, increasing that cash flow becomes the sole focus of all daily operations and and values fall to the wayside?

Ironically, their sponsors will now probably pull out and cause the company to collapse.

This app is gorgeous with Android Material You!

Oh huh, it is a P7P lol