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Staffers don’t know whether the site will shut down — but managing editor Derrek Lee confirms to The Verge that all remaining staff were laid off today. EIC Shruti Shekar confirms she’s been laid off, senior editor Harish Jonnalagadda and senior content producer Nicolas Sutrich wrote they’d been laid off, and senior editor Namarah Saud Fatmi also appears to be gone.

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After a one and a half year selection process, the new name of the operating system formerly known postmarketOS has been announced during the mystery talk of our very own conference. From now on this project is known as Nura!

From @GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social

This was a fun project for my Galaxy S10. As a (primarily) iPhone user who uses an old Android phone as a music archive and, because Android is still cool… when I heard that someone was making a launcher based around the concept of macOS/iOS Spotlight (Apple’s universal search tech), I was interested. Plus, I like the minimal look of the launcher. I’m an old Nova Prime user, so that’s what was installed, but I thought it was time to change it up. My iPhone can really only display icons, so I wanted my Android phone to look different.

We have a partial port of GrapheneOS to the Pixel 11 series after a week of work on it. We’re unable to complete the port due to lack of support for ARM hardware memory tagging in software, firmware and near certainly hardware. It appears Google cut an important security feature to save money.

Some people are cursed with motion sickness, which can make it impossible to read or use a phone in a moving vehicle without suffering waves of nausea. There’s a surprisingly simple trick that can make smartphones usable in such situations. Apple deployed it on the iPhone a couple of years ago, and now Google’s own version is finally coming (slowly) to Android.

Haven’t tried it yet, but it looks very promising as an alternative to google assistant