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> It's not clear at all that a scammer is on the phone, instructing people to click through every warning that they see while sideloading a malicious app. Google claims this to be …

They've been claiming since 2023 that sideloading has been a favored attack vector. "The Global Scam Report also found that scams were most often initiated by sending scam links vi…

Googles total revenue in 2025 was about $400 billion across their entire company. It's hard to estimate how much money scammers steal in general but if you take an estimate[1] that…

So we should just accept that all apps must treat android notifications as a compromised communication channel? The scammers will find some other way to abuse the very generous per…

No. Their stated implementations should be also privacy preserving as they are using on-device LLM models. Not sending your calls or texts to a datacenter.

I am quite genuinely curious what you think the best solution to prevent someone instructing a tech illiterate person over the phone to click through every permission warning about…

I understand usually the megacorporation is simply being anti-consumer with these kinds of changes, and who knows maybe this is the same. But I think this might be an actual except…

None of the comments here seem to discuss or even mention how this situation looks from googles perspective? I feel like HN readers are not aware of the scale of the problem they f…

Their homepage states this is some sort of "AI-governed nation" https://stateofutopia.com/

I think you could do foveated rendering efficiently with rasterization if you "simply" render twice at 2 different resolutions. A low resolution render over the entire FOV, and a h…

Shadertoy got hugged to death by this shader a few years ago and it had a custom "please go away" banner for a little while. Funny seeing it show up again on HN front page. https:/…

At 14:40 in the video they show the footage to a cop who's immediate reaction is "To be honest with you. {talked over} you decide to change lane. How come you, did you think to cha…

I don't see many people mentioning what to me is the largest cause of slow internet. A weak WiFi or 5G signal caused by being behind a brick wall or far away from the router. This …

It can absolutely be used to refactor and reduce code, simply asking "Can this be simplified" in reference to a file or system often results in a nice refactor. However I wouldn't …

As a new comer to JS frameworks Svelte 5 convinced me to use Vue instead. I think Svelte has a nicer template syntax and the reactivity is cleaner is some cases, but it feels like …

You can do bevel with 2 if you accept intersections, which will always occur unless you ensure a minimum distance between points equal to the width of the line. https://i.imgur.com…

Funny timing on this post, I just finished implementing this a couple days ago for a little effect in a game. I followed the math in this comment that is now only viewable from the…