android silent sms dos

smsofdeath.com - apparently one could send you sms to get your phone into a state which makes it at least unusable on your network - google decided to "won't fix" which makes me curious about the why. the impact could be quite serious (from not reachable towards bricked phones). would it even affect wearables? 🫣

private inference with heir

Google just released the possibility for private inference, using homomorphic encryption. Just had a chat this week with a colleague that this is the next thing we need to have more trust with all these private and health assistants. Now it seems possible, it even doesn't sound like it's slower or anything, let's wait on the benchmarks. It's great and seems also open source 😍

https://github.com/google/fully-homomorphic-encryption