limerod
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TL;DR
- Google announced that the next major version of Android (Android 16) will be released in Q2 of 2025, which is several months earlier than usual.
- Google’s VP and GM of the Android Platform told me in an interview how the company was able to move the release forward by so much.
- The Android trunk stable project gave Google confidence that it could roll out updates faster and more frequently without breaking things.
Interview video link: https://youtu.be/ODqTy903fZM
Basically, the Q4 minor release will be the QPR of pixel smartphones for other android users and Q2 will be the major android release with ground breaking changes as usual, just early going forward 2025.
I don’t know how notebookcheck measures. But, xiaomi lists the display as supporting PWM at 3840hz. Notebookcheck had written 120hz for oneplus 12 but official oneplus also lists a higher PWM frequency than the one measured by notebookcheck.
The use-after-free vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2024-44068, and it affects Samsung Exynos mobile processors versions 9820, 9825, 980, 990, 850, and W920. It received an 8.1 out of 10 CVSS severity rating, and Samsung, in its very brief security advisory, describes it as a high-severity flaw. The vendor patched the hole on October 7
This is the most important paragraph. This bug was already exploited in the wild and affects select few exynos smartphones. If you have a affected device make sure it is updated and you should be fine.
Thanks for the heads up. This will make sure we never commit such criminal activity ever again.