Sacrificing lives for aesthetics, pretty much sums it up and explains why this thing is not street legal in the civilised world.

Wouldn’t it be cheaper to pay vastly more versatile human guards a decent wage to guard those or more of those instead of those robots?

Cornell Unversity owns ArXiv.org, that doesn’t mean they have much to do with the content of that article, as they clearly state that ArXiv.org is not peer-reviewing articles hosted there.

Not quoting the primary source does not per chance have anything to do with the source being a not peer reviewed archive of the Cornell University, does it? I wonder, is that normal in the field of AI research?

They might think that they are upholding open source secure communication but what they are really achieving with it is fortifying the US big tech duopoly. There are other aims than theirs, of maximum security, in the EU we are facing the real and very relevant issue of digital sovereignty, which is separate from the ambition for getting hardened mobile systems. Sure, possibly legislation would be preferable to regulate and open up what Google’s Play Integrity API is doing, but as long as that legislation does not exist, creating alternative systems is crucial.

I can’t shake the feeling that this isn’t really about the UA but the private feud of Graphene OS developers with pretty much every single other alternative OS or degoogled android. Yes, they are all less secure than Graphene OS, primarily because Graphene OS relies on huge man power effort by Google to keep the firmware at the cutting edge with swift security updates. That is all good and fine, for their cause but it is not the only legitimate cause out there.

The war over civil rights is continuing, no questions but this has been an important vote against the surveillance state ambitions.

Just think of how much money Google could save if they replaced the CEO with Gemini. Possibly we would not even see a degradation in decision quality and it would save easily more than half a billion USD.

Graphene is heavily relying on security and firmware updates from Google to stay as secure as it is. In fact, the fast and strong updating regime of Google on its Pixel, reference Android, devices, is the reason why Graphene is so far only available for Pixel phones (even if they plan to diversify to Motorola).

A better link for Jolla is probably their store: https://commerce.jolla.com/

I have pre-ordered the Jolla Phone and am hoping everything is working out (won’t see it for another 4 months at the very least I suppose). I am very excited getting to know a completely new mobile OS to me and the actual successor of Nokia’s Meego. Like with any alternative system, and to some extend also with degoogled Androids it is advisable to inform oneself first before jumping ship.