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If you use the nonnull attribute, the assertion will be optimized away.

That's AI Overview, just like it says at the top of the box. AI Mode in that screenshot is the tab to the left of All.

The term has kind of degraded, because people started marketing that "end-to-end encryption" is the "right" answer. Encryption in transit means that network intermediates can't rea…

AIUI, this is relatively rare, and is because of DXVK on games that use old DirectX APIs.

It certainly could. Buying a better GPU improves your graphics performance and that's basically unrelated to the area where a sandbox impacts performance. Killing your web browser …

Usually when people complain about Denuvo, they're talking about Denuvo Anti-Tamper, which (perhaps surprisingly) is not a rootkit.

Only a relatively small (but popular) subset of games use anticheat. Most games -- including the one in this article -- could theoretically run in a sandbox.

Google is mostly interested in abuse that happens beyond the scale of how many $30 phones you can buy.

They said "capable of Play Integrity attestation". It's a weasel statement. If you have GMS, you're capable of performing PIA attestation, you just might fail. So it's strictly tru…

It's not vapor if people actually have access to it, which they do.

Most software in the world has little novelty. You don't really need the source code.

If you don't pay for it, you don't get much in the way of quota. Earlier on (okay, until recently), Gemini CLI's quota management didn't work very well. Antigravity tends to have b…

While I get that there a lot of ads -- particularly if you search for something with the intent to buy -- I tried out both of your example queries. "sofa beds": Popular Products se…

This is, annoyingly, because bare noun phrases as a search term are highly correlated with an intent to buy. You get completely different results if you search for "what is a sofa …

This feature only exists for phones with Google Play Services, so yes.

That's pedantically fair. I broke up a longer statement: > That users won't be able to install what they want and that they would need a google account to install apps It was split…

There's a lot of misinformation here. > I guess it means the Play store will be the only way to install an app No, non-Play stores will still work, but developers will need to regi…

A Gemini query uses about a kilojoule. The brain runs at 20 W (though the whole human costs 100 W). So, the human is less energy if you can get it done in under 50 seconds.

In my experience, people don't really care about rooted devices and non-stock Android -- if those devices are actually phones in the hands of human users. The big fraud vector is r…

I don't think Google is expecting anything here. They run Big Sleep to find security vulnerabilities in projects they care about. It seems -- mostly from reading this issue's detai…

If this is an acceptable solution, just run a modern uncertified Android instead.

> Correctly Android users were able to install packages and now cannot. Not only has nothing happened yet, but this is also untrue.

It is the latter. The app has to be signed, and the signer has to register "real" identity with Google. Approval of the app itself is not a part of the process. Yes, sideloading wi…

> Given that both of these things are obviously true, it seems like a pretty obvious solution is to just have a pop up that has a install at your own risk warning whenever you inst…

Not only will sideloading via ADB continue to work, installing from most other third-party app stores will continue to work. The developers on the Amazon, Samsung, and Epic app sto…