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📱 Motorola va lansa telefoane preinstalate cu GrapheneOS în 2027 – la prețuri mai mari decât seria Pixel!

Publicația Ars Technica raportează despre un parteneriat surprinzător în lumea sistemelor de operare mobile securizate. Motorola intenționează să lanseze în 2027 o serie specială de smartphone-uri care vor rula nativ GrapheneOS, un sistem de operare bazat pe Android axat pe confidențialitate și securitate maximă.

Aceasta marchează o premieră importantă: extinderea oficială a proiectului GrapheneOS dincolo de seria Google Pixel, dar la un cost pe măsură.

✨ Punctele cheie ale anunțului:

🛡️ Alternativă comercială pentru GrapheneOS:
• Istoric, GrapheneOS a putut fi instalat doar pe telefoanele Google Pixel datorită cipului de securitate Titan și posibilității de a bloca bootloader-ul cu chei de criptare personalizate.
• Motorola lucrează la ajustarea hardware-ului propriu pentru a îndeplini cerințele extrem de stricte ale echipei GrapheneOS pe partea de securitate hardware și suport pentru actualizări.

💰 Prețuri peste gama Google Pixel:
• Spre deosebire de modelele standard din seria Moto G sau Edge, noile modele securizate vor fi poziționate pe segmentul premium, având prețuri estimate mai mari decât ale dispozitivelor Google Pixel echivalente.
• Costul suplimentar reflectă adaptările hardware dedicate, testarea riguroasă și suportul software extins de lungă durată.

🔒 Confidențialitate absolută direct din cutie:
• Dispozitivele vor fi livrate complet fără serviciile Google (Google Play Services) preinstalate, dar vor permite utilizarea variantei Sandboxed Google Play pentru compatibilitate cu aplicațiile obișnuite, fără ca Google să poată colecta date la nivel de sistem.

O mișcare îndrăzneață ce aduce sistemele de operare ultra-securizate în ecosistemul hardware al marilor producători de telefoane! 🚀

#Motorola #GrapheneOS #Android #Privacy #CyberSecurity #ArsTechnica #TechNews #MobileTech

📱 Motorola va lansa telefoane preinstalate cu GrapheneOS în 2027 – la prețuri mai mari decât seria Pixel!

Publicația Ars Technica raportează despre un parteneriat surprinzător în lumea sistemelor de operare mobile securizate. Motorola intenționează să lanseze în 2027 o serie specială de smartphone-uri care vor rula nativ GrapheneOS, un sistem de operare bazat pe Android axat pe confidențialitate și securitate maximă.

Aceasta marchează o premieră importantă: extinderea oficială a proiectului GrapheneOS dincolo de seria Google Pixel, dar la un cost pe măsură.

✨ Punctele cheie ale anunțului:

🛡️ Alternativă comercială pentru GrapheneOS:
• Istoric, GrapheneOS a putut fi instalat doar pe telefoanele Google Pixel datorită cipului de securitate Titan și posibilității de a bloca bootloader-ul cu chei de criptare personalizate.
• Motorola lucrează la ajustarea hardware-ului propriu pentru a îndeplini cerințele extrem de stricte ale echipei GrapheneOS pe partea de securitate hardware și suport pentru actualizări.

💰 Prețuri peste gama Google Pixel:
• Spre deosebire de modelele standard din seria Moto G sau Edge, noile modele securizate vor fi poziționate pe segmentul premium, având prețuri estimate mai mari decât ale dispozitivelor Google Pixel echivalente.
• Costul suplimentar reflectă adaptările hardware dedicate, testarea riguroasă și suportul software extins de lungă durată.

🔒 Confidențialitate absolută direct din cutie:
• Dispozitivele vor fi livrate complet fără serviciile Google (Google Play Services) preinstalate, dar vor permite utilizarea variantei Sandboxed Google Play pentru compatibilitate cu aplicațiile obișnuite, fără ca Google să poată colecta date la nivel de sistem.

O mișcare îndrăzneață ce aduce sistemele de operare ultra-securizate în ecosistemul hardware al marilor producători de telefoane! 🚀

#Motorola #GrapheneOS #Android #Privacy #CyberSecurity #ArsTechnica #TechNews #MobileTech

📱 Motorola va lansa telefoane preinstalate cu GrapheneOS în 2027 – la prețuri mai mari decât seria Pixel!

Publicația Ars Technica raportează despre un parteneriat surprinzător în lumea sistemelor de operare mobile securizate. Motorola intenționează să lanseze în 2027 o serie specială de smartphone-uri care vor rula nativ GrapheneOS, un sistem de operare bazat pe Android axat pe confidențialitate și securitate maximă.

Aceasta marchează o premieră importantă: extinderea oficială a proiectului GrapheneOS dincolo de seria Google Pixel, dar la un cost pe măsură.

✨ Punctele cheie ale anunțului:

🛡️ Alternativă comercială pentru GrapheneOS:
• Istoric, GrapheneOS a putut fi instalat doar pe telefoanele Google Pixel datorită cipului de securitate Titan și posibilității de a bloca bootloader-ul cu chei de criptare personalizate.
• Motorola lucrează la ajustarea hardware-ului propriu pentru a îndeplini cerințele extrem de stricte ale echipei GrapheneOS pe partea de securitate hardware și suport pentru actualizări.

💰 Prețuri peste gama Google Pixel:
• Spre deosebire de modelele standard din seria Moto G sau Edge, noile modele securizate vor fi poziționate pe segmentul premium, având prețuri estimate mai mari decât ale dispozitivelor Google Pixel echivalente.
• Costul suplimentar reflectă adaptările hardware dedicate, testarea riguroasă și suportul software extins de lungă durată.

🔒 Confidențialitate absolută direct din cutie:
• Dispozitivele vor fi livrate complet fără serviciile Google (Google Play Services) preinstalate, dar vor permite utilizarea variantei Sandboxed Google Play pentru compatibilitate cu aplicațiile obișnuite, fără ca Google să poată colecta date la nivel de sistem.

O mișcare îndrăzneață ce aduce sistemele de operare ultra-securizate în ecosistemul hardware al marilor producători de telefoane! 🚀

#Motorola #GrapheneOS #Android #Privacy #CyberSecurity #ArsTechnica #TechNews #MobileTech

📱 Motorola va lansa telefoane preinstalate cu GrapheneOS în 2027 – la prețuri mai mari decât seria Pixel!

Publicația Ars Technica raportează despre un parteneriat surprinzător în lumea sistemelor de operare mobile securizate. Motorola intenționează să lanseze în 2027 o serie specială de smartphone-uri care vor rula nativ GrapheneOS, un sistem de operare bazat pe Android axat pe confidențialitate și securitate maximă.

Aceasta marchează o premieră importantă: extinderea oficială a proiectului GrapheneOS dincolo de seria Google Pixel, dar la un cost pe măsură.

✨ Punctele cheie ale anunțului:

🛡️ Alternativă comercială pentru GrapheneOS:
• Istoric, GrapheneOS a putut fi instalat doar pe telefoanele Google Pixel datorită cipului de securitate Titan și posibilității de a bloca bootloader-ul cu chei de criptare personalizate.
• Motorola lucrează la ajustarea hardware-ului propriu pentru a îndeplini cerințele extrem de stricte ale echipei GrapheneOS pe partea de securitate hardware și suport pentru actualizări.

💰 Prețuri peste gama Google Pixel:
• Spre deosebire de modelele standard din seria Moto G sau Edge, noile modele securizate vor fi poziționate pe segmentul premium, având prețuri estimate mai mari decât ale dispozitivelor Google Pixel echivalente.
• Costul suplimentar reflectă adaptările hardware dedicate, testarea riguroasă și suportul software extins de lungă durată.

🔒 Confidențialitate absolută direct din cutie:
• Dispozitivele vor fi livrate complet fără serviciile Google (Google Play Services) preinstalate, dar vor permite utilizarea variantei Sandboxed Google Play pentru compatibilitate cu aplicațiile obișnuite, fără ca Google să poată colecta date la nivel de sistem.

O mișcare îndrăzneață ce aduce sistemele de operare ultra-securizate în ecosistemul hardware al marilor producători de telefoane! 🚀

#Motorola #GrapheneOS #Android #Privacy #CyberSecurity #ArsTechnica #TechNews #MobileTech

📱 Motorola va lansa telefoane preinstalate cu GrapheneOS în 2027 – la prețuri mai mari decât seria Pixel!

Publicația Ars Technica raportează despre un parteneriat surprinzător în lumea sistemelor de operare mobile securizate. Motorola intenționează să lanseze în 2027 o serie specială de smartphone-uri care vor rula nativ GrapheneOS, un sistem de operare bazat pe Android axat pe confidențialitate și securitate maximă.

Aceasta marchează o premieră importantă: extinderea oficială a proiectului GrapheneOS dincolo de seria Google Pixel, dar la un cost pe măsură.

✨ Punctele cheie ale anunțului:

🛡️ Alternativă comercială pentru GrapheneOS:
• Istoric, GrapheneOS a putut fi instalat doar pe telefoanele Google Pixel datorită cipului de securitate Titan și posibilității de a bloca bootloader-ul cu chei de criptare personalizate.
• Motorola lucrează la ajustarea hardware-ului propriu pentru a îndeplini cerințele extrem de stricte ale echipei GrapheneOS pe partea de securitate hardware și suport pentru actualizări.

💰 Prețuri peste gama Google Pixel:
• Spre deosebire de modelele standard din seria Moto G sau Edge, noile modele securizate vor fi poziționate pe segmentul premium, având prețuri estimate mai mari decât ale dispozitivelor Google Pixel echivalente.
• Costul suplimentar reflectă adaptările hardware dedicate, testarea riguroasă și suportul software extins de lungă durată.

🔒 Confidențialitate absolută direct din cutie:
• Dispozitivele vor fi livrate complet fără serviciile Google (Google Play Services) preinstalate, dar vor permite utilizarea variantei Sandboxed Google Play pentru compatibilitate cu aplicațiile obișnuite, fără ca Google să poată colecta date la nivel de sistem.

O mișcare îndrăzneață ce aduce sistemele de operare ultra-securizate în ecosistemul hardware al marilor producători de telefoane! 🚀

#Motorola #GrapheneOS #Android #Privacy #CyberSecurity #ArsTechnica #TechNews #MobileTech

Ars Technica: Editor’s Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations. “That this happened at Ars is especially distressing. We have covered the risks of overreliance on AI tools for years, and our written policy reflects those concerns. In this case, fabricated quotations were published in a manner inconsistent with that policy. We have reviewed recent work and have not […]

Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike wants to do for AI what he did for messaging – Ars Technica

LLM E2EE made simple

Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike wants to do for AI what he did for messaging

Introducing Confer, an end-to-end AI assistant that just works.

By Dan Goodin – Jan 13, 2026 4:00 AM | 104

Moxie Marlinspike—the pseudonym of an engineer who set a new standard for private messaging with the creation of the Signal Messenger—is now aiming to revolutionize AI chatbots in a similar way.

His latest brainchild is Confer, an open source AI assistant that provides strong assurances that user data is unreadable to the platform operator, hackers, law enforcement, or any other party other than account holders. The service—including its large language models and back-end components—runs entirely on open source software that users can cryptographically verify is in place.

Data and conversations originating from users and the resulting responses from the LLMs are encrypted in a trusted execution environment (TEE) that prevents even server administrators from peeking at or tampering with them. Conversations are stored by Confer in the same encrypted form, which uses a key that remains securely on users’ devices.

Like Signal, the under-the-hood workings of Confer are elegant in their design and simplicity. Signal was the first end-user privacy tool that made using it a snap. Prior to that, using PGP email or other options to establish encrypted channels between two users was a cumbersome process that was easy to botch. Signal broke that mold. Key management was no longer a task users had to worry about. Signal was designed to prevent even the platform operators from peering into messages or identifying users’ real-world identities.

“Inherent data collectors”

All major platforms are required to turn over user data to law enforcement or private parties in a lawsuit when either provides a valid subpoena. Even when users opt out of having their data stored long term, parties to a lawsuit can compel the platform to store it, as the world learned last May when a court ordered OpenAI to preserve all ChatGPT users’ logs—including deleted chats and sensitive chats logged through its API business offering. Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, has said such rulings mean even psychotherapy sessions on the platform may not stay private. Another carve out to opting out: AI platforms like Google Gemini may have humans read chats.

Data privacy expert Em (she keeps her last name off the Internet) called AI assistants the “archnemesis” of data privacy because their utility relies on assembling massive amounts of data from myriad sources, including individuals.

“AI models are inherent data collectors,” she told Ars. “They rely on large data collection for training, improvements, operations, and customizations. More often than not, this data is collected without clear and informed consent (from unknowing training subjects or from platform users), and is sent to and accessed by a private company with many incentives to share and monetize this data.”

The lack of user-control is especially problematic given the nature of LLM interactions, Marlinspike says. Users often treat dialogue as an intimate conversation. Users share their thoughts, fears, transgressions, business dealings, and deepest, darkest secrets as if AI assistants are trusted confidants or personal journals. The interactions are fundamentally different from traditional web search queries, which usually adhere to a transactional model of keywords in and links out.

He likens AI use to confessing into a “data lake.”

Awaking from the nightmare that is today’s AI landscape

In response, Marlinspike has developed and is now trialing Confer. In much the way Signal uses encryption to make messages readable only to parties participating in a conversation, Confer protects user prompts, AI responses, and all data included in them. And just like Signal, there’s no way to tie individual users to their real-world identity through their email address, IP address, or other details.

“The character of the interaction is fundamentally different because it’s a private interaction,” Marlinspike told Ars. “It’s been really interesting and encouraging and amazing to hear stories from people who have used Confer and had life-changing conversations, in part because they haven’t felt free to include information in those conversations with sources like ChatGPT or they had insights using data that they weren’t really free to share with ChatGPT before but can using an environment like Confer.”

Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike wants to do for AI what he did for messaging – Ars Technica

A quirky guide to myths and lore based in actual science – Ars Technica

G is for geomythology

A quirky guide to myths and lore based in actual science

Folklorist/historian Adrienne Mayor on her new book Mythopedia: A Brief Compendium of Natural History Lore

By Jennifer Ouellette – Dec 29, 2025 7:30 AM |

Earthquakes, volcanic eruption, eclipses, meteor showers, and many other natural phenomena have always been part of life on Earth. In ancient cultures that predated science, such events were often memorialized in myths and legends. There is a growing body of research that strives to connect those ancient stories with the real natural events that inspired them. Folklorist and historian Adrienne Mayor has put together a fascinating short compendium of such insights with Mythopedia: A Brief Compendium of Natural History Lore, from dry quicksand and rains of frogs to burning lakes, paleoburrows, and Scandinavian “endless winters.”

Mayor’s work has long straddled multiple disciplines, but one of her specialities is best described as geomythology, a term coined in 1968 by Indiana University geologist Dorothy Vitaliano, who was interested in classical legends about Atlantis and other civilizations that were lost due to natural disasters. Her interest resulted in Vitaliano’s 1973 book Legends of the Earth: Their Geologic Origins.

Mayor herself became interested in the field when she came across Greek and Roman descriptions of fossils, and that interest expanded over the years to incorporate other examples of “folk science” in cultures around the world. Her books include The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome’s Deadliest Enemy (2009), as well as Greek Fire, Poison Arrows, & the Scorpion Bombs (2022), exploring the origins of biological and chemical warfare. Her 2018 book, Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology, explored ancient myths and folklore about creating automation, artificial life, and AI, connecting them to the robots and other ingenious mechanical devices actually designed and built during that era.

When her editor at Princeton University Press approached her about writing a book on geomythology, she opted for an encyclopedia format, which fit perfectly into an existing Princeton series of little encyclopedias about nature. “In this case, I wasn’t going to be working with just Greek and Roman antiquity,” Mayor told Ars. “I had collected very rich files on geomyths around the world. There are even a few modern geomyths in there. You can dip into whatever you’re interested in and skip the rest. Or maybe later you’ll read the ones that didn’t seem like they would be of interest to you but they’re absolutely fascinating.”

Mythopedia is also a true family affair, in that illustrator Michelle Angel is Mayor’s sister. “She does figures and maps for a lot of scholarly books, including mine,” said Mayor. “She’s very talented at making whimsical illustrations that are also very scientifically accurate. She really added information not only to the essays but to the illustrations for Mythopedia.

As she said, Mayor even includes a few modern geomyths in her compendium, as well as imagining in her preface what kind of geomyths might be told thousands of years from today about the origins of climate change for example, or the connection between earthquakes and fracking. “How will people try to explain the perplexing evidence that they’ll find on the planet Earth and maybe on other planets?” she said. “How will those stories be told?”

Ars caught up with Mayor to learn more.

Ars Technica:  Tell us a little about the field of geomythology.

Adrienne Mayor: It’s a relatively new field of study but it took off around 2000. Really, it’s a storytelling that has existed since the first humans started talking to one another and investigating their landscape. I think geomyths are attempts to explain perplexing evidence in nature—on the Earth or in the sky. So geomyth is a bit of a misnomer since it can also cover celestial happenings. But people have been trying to explain bizarre things, or unnatural looking things, or inexplicable things in their landscape and their surroundings since they could first speak.

These kind of stories were probably first told around the first fires that human beings made as soon as they had language. So geomyths are attempts to explain, as I say, but they also contain memories that are preserved in oral traditions. These are cultures that are trying to understand earthshaking events like volcanoes or massive floods, tsunamis, earthquakes, avalanches—things that really change the landscape and have an impact on their culture. Geomyths are often expressed in metaphors and poetic, even supernatural language, and that’s why they’ve been ignored for a long time because people thought they were just storytelling or fiction.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: A quirky guide to myths and lore based in actual science – Ars Technica

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