Anyone know which Pixels, and if GrapheneOS would mitigate it?
Thanks for the heads up!
[Edit: Why the fuck is this app installing a Harry Potter Audible ad on my phone? Fuck you Google.]
what are you talking about
“Harry Potter Audiobook Packs Instantly customize your Pixel with Harry Potter Audiobook Packs to celebrate the release of Harry Potter: The Full-Cast Audio Editions on Audible. One tap changes your wallpaper, icons, and sounds with elements from the audiobooks - no wand required. To begin your journey to Hogwarts, all eligible Pixel users will receive a two-month Audible free trial.(2)”
(Source: https://support.google.com/pixelphone/thread/466181739/september-2026-pixel-drop?hl=en)
Why the hell is this garbage being bundled woth my OS?
Would like to know if the most recent update lays ground work for the developer attestation program or if that is installed against my will regardless.
I’ve heard that’s installed through Google Play Services so you get it even if your phone is no longer receiving timely security updates from the manufacturer. How considerate of them…
And Graphene thinks that they’re secure.
Is this just cynicism, or is there a history of CVEs before patches exist? This is the first headline I’ve seen like this.
And Graphene is moving to Motorola anyway.
Not moving to, but adding them as I understand it.
Pixel 11 downgraded something such that GrapheneOS will not be ported to it; it remains to be seen if any future Pixels will meet Graphene’s standards.
Edit: Memory tagging extensions introduced with Pixel 8 series are missing from Pixel 11.
Pixel 11 will likely be improved to meet our requirements. Android 17 QPR2 Beta 4 added back MTE support after our initial thread about this. It turns out hardware support does exist. It’s not clear why it was entirely unavailable and disabled in firmware at launch. There may be something wrong with it which has to be worked around in firmware. It may have simply not been implemented yet. We’re now optimistic that we’ll be able to support those alongside the Motorola devices.<
Nice! Thanks for the correction.
That’s called a zero day.
There’s no such thing as privacy.
We shouldn’t have lived our lives for these businesses and nations, we’re slaves and we helped create it all.
Crazy how I didn’t hear about this
