https://9to5google.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2026/07/Pixel-11-Glow-teaser.mp4

Here's your notification LED, on the back, likely unable to function as one on stock, but certainly pulsating in a cool way to the voice of Gemini.

https://fxtwitter.com/NexToWeb/status/2078339101435072847

Ain't an animation if it doesn't make you automatically fall from a bike

LLM as a translator sounds cool, until white knights come in.

OPlus is killing OP's global market presence with so much dedication that they're going out of their way to presumably prevent even the import of Chinese units. They want it gone off the global market, you must all buy Oppo now in their mind.

Update:
pm disable com.your.app/com.pairip.licensecheck.LicenseActivity

This shouldn't need to be repeated, but:
PairIP doesn't protect your app against modification and redistribution. The extent of needed binary modifications can't be high if a single command beats it. It only serves as Google's sneaky anti-competitive measure that aims to force users to always be logged into a Google account to use your app, even after installing an untouched, legitimate version through Aurora Store or APKmirror or from a backup they've made themselves.

PS: in dev console it's called "automatic protection".

FYI: it looks like you'll still need to have PlayStore/FakeStore (com.android.vending) installed after disabling the activity, otherwise the PairIP-infected (yes, it's quite a valid word, considering most developers don't know the full implications, while being enrolled by default for all new apps) apps will crash in ~2 seconds.

EDIT: nvm, microG is mandatory, having GP on merely delays the (activity?) crash to 30 seconds. See: https://xn--r1a.website/TadiBlog/1000

https://kitsumed.github.io/blog/posts/android-may-soon-restrict-on-device-adb/

Oops, looks like wireless ADB is somehow too convenient to access and your granny will use it to bypass the 24h cooldown and install malware 🤯

Robot powered by Qualcomm’s new AI chip - The Dragonwing IQ10 dies mid-presentation 😭

Bro gave up 🥀

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Do you have a completely satisfying amount of RAM on your Android device? And yet still experience losing your app state overnight, as it's now missing in recents? Be it a photo editor or incognito mode in a browser?
Turns out that in AOSP defaults, you'll only be left with 5 tasks (or one less, if to trust some reports) after 6 hours of last use. If a TikToker commits to a test by clicking each app on home screen one by one, all of these tasks will stay in recents. But if you want to go back to something from a day or two ago, it can be missing. Now you know why.

The culprit has a simple name: config_minNumVisibleRecentTasks. It's set to 5. Set to it to 30 and you'll live a happier life. A tiny bit of RAM will be used to keep the task state and its visual snapshot, while the processes will still be treated exactly the same. You'll just get to keep the state. Works best if combined with LMO's transient mode.

Excellent post on the topic:
https://android.stackexchange.com/a/242730

😳😳 (it somehow got 4.0 rating)

This is how log transfer should work with dead USB and connectivity 🥰

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1vawcw3/i_had_an_idea_for_an_airgapped_file_transfer/

Nvm, you still need microG, with GMS it merely delays the current activity crash to 30 seconds.

(Funny to see "Paywall" in logs of a free app)

Nvm2! Turns out that I was doing something incorrectly in my earlier testing and replacing GP with MicroG Companion actually just works! Tested the one from https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/releases/tag/v0.3.16.252432 and I just had to "uninstall updates" of the built-in Play Store. The command listed earlier doesn't seem to influence the results.

Empty the /product/priv-app/Phonesky or /product/priv-app/GooglePlayServicesUpdaterStub, create a new dir for microG Companion, put it there. Done, for now. Didn't try going for full-fledged microG on devices running stock, but glad this currently works.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/07/google-plans-to-exempt-sanctioned-nations-from-android-developer-verification/
If it's not funny, I don't know what is...

https://www.reddit.com/r/GalaxyS24Ultra/comments/1to1lkp/why_is_the_automatic_protection_blocking_random/

Samsung has a feature (enabled by default) that replaces the rendered image outputs when their algorithm considers them malicious. It seemingly broke.
The most major problem with it is data loss. Some apps will only keep an on-device processed (passed through renderer) copy and that may mean an irreversible loss of media that you captured or received. Not a hyperbole.