A recommended watch for your time by Veritasium

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Microsoft is so fucking stupid.

Microsoft renamed Microsoft Office to Microsoft 365 Copilot App

I'm not joking

That's Amazing Meta!

https://fixvx.com/sadlyitsbradley/status/2008208286445928656?s=46

> ASUS
> most enthusiast-friendly Android brand ever

The reality: Only Android brand to charge 200$ + Taxes simply to unlock the bootloader

Additionally, one of the Android brands with the worst after sales support in every country

The Google app icon is now bigger on Android

Beta version 17.0 of the Google app on Android comes with an increase in the size of the app icon.

This tweak in the beta channel sees the gradient ‘G’ expand a tiny amount to better fill the container. The update addresses how the initial gradient revision in May shrank the icon.

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Google AI Overview strikes again!

This time, you are a sex offender because you share your last name with an actual sex offender.

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#ICYMI

This might be old news to some, but did you know that Windows Snipping Tool has a flippin' Text Extractor built in?

Hit Win+Shift+T (not S) to access it.

It can also be accessed from inside Snipping Tool itself after you take a screenshot.

Feat. Linux users

https://fixvx.com/itsfoss2/status/2008433481601232950

BREAKING: Google will release the source code to AOSP only 2 times a year

After previously delaying the September QPR 1 AOSP source code release by almost 2 months, Google has now announced that it will release the source code to AOSP every 6 months only i.e in Q2 and Q4.

"Effective in 2026, to align with our trunk-stable development model and ensure platform stability for the ecosystem, we will publish source code to AOSP in Q2 and Q4. For building and contributing to AOSP, we recommend utilizing android-latest-release instead of aosp-main. The android-latest-release manifest branch will always reference the most recent release pushed to AOSP. For more information, see Changes to AOSP.”

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In other words, this means that Android 16 QPR 3 aka March update source code will not be pushed to AOSP and neither will be the Android 17 September 2026 source code.
That's one way to kill AOSP though.

Android will get killed by developer verification and sooner or later, most of the apps will start utilising all the optional security features of Android for NO reason, like ChatGPT and banking apps do -- "This App will not work as it's not installed from playstore", thus essentially killing sideloading.

This means Android will slowly turn into iOS and the only major difference b/w them would be about heavy customisation in Android 🥀

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This means that GrapheneOS will not be able to flex "most secure" anymore as they will also get the security updates after 6 months when Google will release it to AOSP .....unless their partner brand [redacted] provides them.

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Security updates will continue to be released monthly ?

A Google spokesperson told Android Authority that:

"Process for security patch releases will not change and that the company will keep publishing security patches each month on a dedicated security-only branch for relevant OS releases just as it does today. "

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