How is this going to work if you’re browsing the internet on your phone??
Easy, they force you to install an app, just click the link and agree to all the permissions and cookies and stuff. It might be malware, it might be legit, who knows?
Google copying UI workflows from literal malware developers…
There’s already the app published and it has already blatantly fake reviews
Banks love to reinvent the wheel and definitely can’t trust Google to be part of their workflow, as Google will 100% change UI or steps or rename the app or discontinue the app while replacing it with an identical one but with a different name but less features with no advance notice. Relying on Google for banking workflow means that one day the bank user support will be overwhelmed by requests like “the button disappeared, where is it now”
For the rest of stuff, this system IMHO has too much friction, the bounce rate will be too high. Businesses won’t like to pay for a bot detection system (it costs $1 per 1000 verifications) that will push humans away while bots pass it without problems (either by using the accessibility workaround or by using those smartphone farms in southeast Asia)
Wow good to know, that means Xiaomi is dead for me now.
2000 devices globally is a ridiculously low number
What happened about the bootloader? Afaik there’s “only” a 7 days waiting time but that is to be done only once, if the serial number is tied to the Xiaomi account that makes the request, the next bootloader unlock has no waiting time.
And devices that run a ROM for the Chinese market only accept a bootloader unlock request from a Chinese IP address
Did they vibe coded the backend?
An hacker can get:
And they demonstrated to the journalist…
Scary
This is awesome news for scammers:
I’m too lazy to take out the phone from my pocket.
Well the good thing is that now Google enshittified recaptcha and now if the website owner wants to implement it, needs to pay $1 for 1000 verification requests which is crazy expensive for something that as of now it’s easy to pass as a bot than as a human (bots ask the voice verification and ask a LLM to interpret that, pass recaptcha in less than a second. Humans need to click on 25 traffic lights and give up in the process)
I would never scan a qr code to verify that I’m not a bot. I’d simply close the page
Wow 87% disapproval is a much higher number than what I imagined.
Reading the headline I was expecting it was like a 60% disapproval
Assistant was made 100x stupider over the course of the years. I clearly remember in 2020 asking basic questions like “where’s Lima” and it replied “Peru”, while since 2023 it replied “ok, starting navigation to Lima, Peru, estimated time 2 days and 10 hours”.
Around 2023 also they made the voice assistant completely useless by changing the responses from “for this answer open the link in your notification bar on the phone” to “sorry, I didn’t understand”, which was pissing me off too much. I completely stopped to use it as 9 questions out of 10 would be “sorry I didn’t understand” instead of “I understood but I’m not programmed to give a voice answer, use your phone”.
Navigation by voice was a complete disaster.
“Navigate to <CONTACT NAME>” - “Ok navigating to <a random business 1000 km away with a name slightly similar to what I said>”
Or, it dropped the road name: you asked to go to “street name, city” and it placed the destination on the geographic center of that city
Also the navigation instructions would have maximum priority and would play even when listening to a command.
“Send a message: I’m going to be late <assistant overlaps my speech>” - “Sending: I’m going to be late on the next exit take the right lane then after 600 meters turn left. Ready to send it?”
“Call Anna” - “OK, I call Daniel”
And of course it got removed by reddit mods without explanation lol (or, if there’s an explanation, it’s behind the YOU MUST INSTALL OUR APP OR GTFO! paywall and I chose to GTFO)
Yes but unfortunately it’s the only one that is coded to strip paywalls instead of archiving the page as-is
i adjusted hue and saturation to increase contrast
Until now I never saw something written in OpenDyslexic that was this unreadable
I know that you did it with good heart for accessibility but with this colors is really unreadable
Aren’t people horrified to give a hallucinatory program full access
Looks like they aren’t: https://www.pcmag.com/news/meta-security-researchers-openclaw-ai-agent-accidentally-deleted-her-emails - not even in a VM, full desktop, and without setting up a remote access solution, she said “I had to run to unplug the Mac because the email nuking program didn’t stop”
Background: many people vibe coded a python proxy for the official Claude code app “converting” its outputs as an openai compatible API to be used with openclaw
edit: i did some web search and found snippets like:
OpenClaw spawns Claude Code sessions via ACP
and
ACP gives OpenClaw a way to run external coding harnesses — Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI — as supervised child processes instead of doing everything inline in the main agent loop.
so it looks like openclaw users were using this ACP method as a workaround to use a $20 subscription to get $1000 worth of token usage. I’m guessing that openclaw JSON example posted in the article is the configuration of this ACP server or something like that.
The IDF “ai” targeting approach
Idea: let’s ask Copilot to rewrite that in Rust