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Google's Pixel eleven has quietly dropped hardware memory tagging, a security feature known as MTE, and the GrapheneOS project is raising the alarm. MTE was designed to catch memory vulnerabilities at the hardware level, so its removal is a meaningful step back for security-conscious Android users, and the community wants answers.
Shifting from silicon to Washington, Nvidia is moving to establish an employee-funded political action committee to help shape US tech policy. It joins a long list of major corporations that have decided the best way to navigate regulation is to have a seat at the table — or more precisely, to help set it.
And on the philosophical end of the dial, a quote from the late Claude Shannon is making the rounds again — his vision of a future where humans are to robots what dogs are to humans. It's a striking image from one of the founding minds of information theory, and it lands differently now that the machines he theorized about are actually starting to think.
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