How to get Android P on your smartphone right now

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referring to Google I/O 2018 has kicked off, with the firm revealing a public beta for the upcoming Android P, otherwise known as Android 9.0. As well as announcing Android P going to be with us in the autumn with a beta obtainable now, Google alextremely showcased some interesting new Android P features at its Google I/O developer event, too. There are two different routes you could take if you want it: the traditional developer route, or the super-friendly Android Beta programme route. The Android P Beta is obtainable today on Google Pixel, Essential Phone, OnePlus, Mi, Sony, Essential and Oppo handsets. It's important to note which if you've used the Android Beta programme before, you going to want to re-enroll your phone.

5 features coming to your Android phone

(You'll find a list of Android P phones here.) There are many new features in Android P you could expect to make their way to your Android phone, the timing of which depends on how of10 your phone's industrialist updates its operating system. For Google Pixel ($369.99 at Amazon.com) owners, however, you could expect the next features to reach your device when Android P is formally released later this year. Now Playing: Watch this: Android P has features to curb smartphone addictionNew navigationGoogleRight now, generality Android devices have three digital buttons at the bottom of the screen for navigating the interface. Finally, Android P is adding best equipment to do further with screenshots.

Sophisticated Android malware tracks all your smartphone activities

as mentioned in ZooPark has evolved over 4 generations, having started as simple malware which can "only" robber device account specifics and address book contacts. It can alextremely capture photos, video, audio and screenbullets on its own, without the subject knowing. Kaspersky -- a firm with its own spotty security history which has been banned with the US Gov. -- told which it has seen less than hundred targets in the wild. In other words, a hacking group was enable to of obtain malware from what should be the generality secure agency in the world. That's 1 of the reasons which security Specialists and companies like Apple do not trust the US Gov. with device backdoors.

Drive-by Rowhammer attack Utilizes GPU to compromise an Android phone

Like all of the Rowhammer attacks which have preceded it, the GLitch proof-of-concept exploit is not mature sufficient to pose an immediate menace to generality finish users. What's more, the GLitch investigators found, mobile GPU caches have deterministic behaviors which contrast sharply with the random policies implemented in mobile CPUs. Rowhammer attacks rely on side channels to chart out big chunks of memory stored inside vulnerable chips. To surgically hammer the rows storing targeted bits, Rowhammer attacks cautiously measure when certain DRAM accesses take. Frigo told his teammates have not yet studied the mitigations, however he expects they would make Rowhammer attacks much harder.

Here's how to make Alexa the default helper on an Android phone

If you miss barking orders at your house Alexa device the time you're on the move, you're this time in luck. that is, if you have an Android phone. And you could this time change the default voice helper on an Android smartphone to Amazon's Alexa or Microsoft's Cortana, the Verge soon uncovered. But be warned: Swapping out Google helper for Alexa won't be which useful of an experience. Hopefully this doesn't encourage Amazon to have a try making its own smartphone again, as which didn't go very well final time.