Oh my... Google finally listened 😭🙏

Well, we are just as shocked as you are, and honestly, we can't believe it either... but Google is finally adopting a long-requested feature from its user base.

We are talking about the ability to remove and customize the infamous Google Search Bar on the home screen.

Previous hints of this feature were already discovered in the Android 17 QPR1 Beta 2 code, but today we are showcasing how it has actually been implemented and what it will look like in the QPR1 stable release.

By accessing the home screen settings, you'll be greeted by a new "Search bar settings" sub-menu, which will let you disable or enable the feature. When enabled, you'll be able to completely customize the look of the bar, from the hue and saturation to the shortcut.

For a visual reference, we've attached a short video clip.

What do you think about this new addition?
Does it meaningfully improve your Pixel user experience or is it just a small gimmick?

Let us know down below!

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The star shaped UFO mystery has been solved. It is none other than Claude

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A star-shaped UFO has been observed by the US government in the latest UFO files revealed

The United States Central Command submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of one minute and 46 seconds of video footage from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform in 2013. The reporter did not provide any oral or written description of the observation.

Video Description: This video depicts an area of contrast resembling an eight-pointed star with arms of alternating length.

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Next they install camera in every household, yeah to protect children

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Someone made Oplus Fuckups Group

/channel/oplusfuckups

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Microsoft is testing a new Low Latency Profile feature that greatly improves Windows 11 performance. The launch time of Edge, Outlook and other apps is reduced by approximately 40%. The Start menu and context menus open 70% faster.

For that, the system boosts the processor frequency to maximum values ​​for 1-3 seconds every time the user performs a high-priority task, whether it's launching an app or interacting with the OS interface.

Work on the "Low Latency Profile" feature is being conducted as part of a large-scale internal initiative codenamed Windows K2. It's currently unknown whether users will be able to enable or disable the "Low Latency Profile" feature manually in the system settings. Currently, it operates completely automatically and runs in the background as needed.

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RIP Realme UI

Realme UI will soon be replaced by ColorOS in the future on realme smartphones. Now everything is officially "Oppo" in the Oplus Group.

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IT GETS WORSE 🤡

https://x.com/xenocyke/status/2052107405299749275

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How badly OnePlus has fallen....

A previous generation OnePlus smartphone will get more updates than their latest generation phones.

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Your regular public service reminder that "WinUI 2" is now referred to as "WinUI for UWP" and "WinUI 3" is now simply "WinUI".

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER

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So will it be just light reflections like how Oppo did or simply transparent gradients lol

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Hey.. we need to talk..

The May 2026 update has been released today! As we’ve leaked before, this update includes a bootloader update for the Pixel 10 series that increments the anti-rollback counter, preventing from downgrading to a vulnerable version of the bootloader.

While we’re out here warning you, there’s a big brick issue that Google refuses to address publicly: b/507968853

As many of you developers know, once a Pixel enters one of these recovery modes:

Pixel ROM Recovery (Pixel 6-8 series)
Pixel BL1 Recovery (Pixel 9 series)
Pixel DBL Recovery (Pixel 10+ series)

The Pixel becomes a paperweight.

We know that Googlers have an internal tool (go/flash/tools/pixel/rom_recovery) and signed recovery images (signed/signed-recovery.zip) to recover a device from such mode.
However, external users don’t have them. Every complaint about that on the Issue Tracker gets a Won’t Fix or a Duplicate of x status.
The primary issue (b/402455330) hasn’t gotten an answer from Google since April 2025.

The continued silence makes it look like the company doesn’t care about its users. The problem has been raised for years. Yet there’s still no public statement.

Everything's changed when a developer (JoshuaDoes) has released a tool called tensor-usbdl that can work with a device stuck in Pixel ROM Recovery mode.

The catch?
- Currently, the tool only has the leaked recovery signed images for the Pixel 7 / Pixel 7 Pro and the Pixel 8 / 8 Pro.
- The Pixel 8 images only work if you have never updated your phone to the May 2025 update. If you did, well you’re locked out for now.

The fact that an independent developer made such a tool proves that Google could do something about this but they won’t, meanwhile no one we know of has taken advantage of it to break the device security.

What do you think about this? Have you ever bricked a Pixel? Let us know in the comment section!

By the way regarding the leaks, we know and we're dropping another bomb soon so stay tuned

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Your Phone Number can easily be leaked on Telegram due to this default setting

If you hide your number from your Telegram profile, it can still be obtained. You may ask, how? This is because of how Contact Discovery works on any messaging app (including WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, etc.).

If I save a random number on my phone that turns out to be yours, Telegram will automatically link the number to your profile. This is exploited by attackers, by saving thousands of numbers in the phone's contacts (with a .vcf file for a lot of numbers), and then syncing them in Telegram. If the contacts list contains your number, it'll be linked to your profile, and will be exposed.

This is how some people's numbers get leaked on Telegram as this option is set to "Everybody" by default.

If you want to prevent this, change "Who can find me by my number" to "My Contacts" in Privacy settings. This way, your number won't be linked to your profile as long as you don't have the attacker's number saved.

🧑‍💻 @agamtechtricks

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Microsoft Edge loads all your saved passwords into memory in cleartext, even when you are not using them

In the video, the attacker has compromised a user account with administrative rights and is able to view stored credentials for two other logged-on (or even disconnected) users with Edge running.

When you save passwords in Edge, the browser decrypts every credential at startup and keeps them resident in process memory. This happens even if you never visit a site that uses those credentials. At the same time, Edge requires you to re-authenticate before showing those same passwords in the Password Manager UI, yet the browser process already has them all in plaintext.

In contrast, Chrome decrypts credentials only when needed and uses App-Bound Encryption to prevent other processes from reusing its keys. This ensures plaintext passwords appear only briefly during autofill, making memory scraping far less effective.

The researcher reported this to Microsoft, and the official response was that the behavior is "by design". He will soon release a simple & educational tool on GitHub to help people easily see that the passwords are stored in cleartext in memory.

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https://fixvx.com/L1v1ng0ffTh3L4N/status/2051308329880719730?s=20

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https://codewiki.google/

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New certified device added:
Brand: TrumpMobile
Name: T1
Codename: T1
Model: SGG-06

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Photos of UFOs observed on the Moon during the Apollo 12 mission in 1969 have just been published

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JUST IN: US Department of War releases UFO Files

The colored UFO picture in the images above is described as:

Actual site photo with FBI Lab rendered graphic overlay depicting corroborating eyewitness reports from September 2023 of an apparent ellipsoid bronze metallic object materializing out of a bright light in the sky, 130-195 feet in length, and disappearing instantaneously

The materials archived here are unresolved cases, meaning the government is unable to make a definitive determination on the nature of the observed phenomena. This can occur for a variety of reasons, including a lack of sufficient data, and the Department of War welcomes the application of private-sector analysis, information and expertise. DOW will continue to conduct separate reporting on resolved UAP cases, as mandated by statute.

You can view more images here:
https://www.war.gov/UFO/

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EU will start imposing restrictions on the use of VPN to protect children

The European Union notes that:

For instance, it is likely that the revised Cybersecurity Act will introduce child-safety criteria, potentially including measures to prevent the misuse of VPNs to bypass legal protections.

Protecting children online is a priority, with new rules being implemented requiring a minimum age for access to some services

This means that those VPN companies who will not follow these guidelines will likely be banned in the EU.

Read more here:
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document/EPRS_ATA(2026)782618

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Instagram ends end-to-end encrypted messaging in chats from today.

This move will make it easier for Mark Suckerberg to read your messages & view your n*des in chats, share them with advertisers, or hand them over to authorities and governments on request.

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The best use of 100x zoom ....

https://fixvx.com/nexta_tv/status/2052184136434295039?s=20

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Zoom in on YouTube web natively
- Firs introduced on mobile as pinch to zoom, it appears that YouTube has quietly added something similar on the web.
- You can continue to play and pan across the video with magnification of up to 5x.
- Unlike on mobile, this feature can be used in both full screen and non-full screen mode.
- At the time of writing, the web version currently does not support pinch to zoom with a touch screen.
- The feature should be widely available for everyone.

#Apps #YouTube @PixelHubUpdates

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Microsoft is more butthurt about the Neo than you expect

Microsoft is so pissed about the MacBook Neo that they commissioned a market report to attempt to prove that PC laptops outperform it while being cheaper.

Yet to make its point, the report had to lie about the competitors' pricing.
They subtracted the value of the shovelware (Xbox Game Pass, Office license, ...) from the pricing of the Windows laptops, to the tune of $150 per laptop 🤡

https://x.com/Signal_65/status/2052033092370448725

(thanks to the proposed Community Note for bringing attention to this)

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Flagship €1500 or ₹1,40,000 priced Xiaomi 17 Ultra has received ZERO updates since its debut globally

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Xiaomi HyperOS 4: Monkey See, Monkey Hyper!

While Google, Samsung and other Chinese smartphone brands stayed away from adding a liquid glass mess to keep the user experience clean, Xiaomi will prove that they have NO ideas without Apple. They are the only company brave enough to steal the design everyone else hated except Huawei.

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Google Teases Liquid Glass inspired design coming with the next Material You Design language MD4 in Android

https://fixvx.com/avstorm/status/2051755703916786080?s=20

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The team behind Windows Terminal and PowerToys unveiled a rebuilt version of the Run dialog for Windows 11, developed from scratch with user feedback guiding the design. The interface adopts Fluent Design, aligns with Windows 11, and includes dark theme support.

Developers prioritized performance, reducing average window appearance time to 94 milliseconds, achieved through cross-team collaboration, UI and architectural optimizations. The tool navigates local and network locations rapidly, and users still access it via the Win + R shortcut.

Engineers added telemetry to the legacy dialog to measure rendering times and feature usage, finding the classic window averaged 103 milliseconds, only 0.0038 percent of 35 million users clicked the Browse button, and some users paste text into Run to clear formatting.

PowerToys Run prototypes and the CmdPal project inspired development, and CmdPal contributions now power the new dialog, which is a C# WinUI 3 application compiled with .NET AOT. The dialog supports ~\ (hello Linux users) to open the home folder, and the history drop-down displays application icons.

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Proof of Concept for 'Dump Edge Cleartext Credentials' showcasing Microsoft Edge dumping all your password in memory in cleartext is now available on GitHub

https://github.com/L1v1ng0ffTh3L4N/EdgeSavedPasswordsDumper

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Here's the thing no one wants to tell you about AI:

1. It's the worlds largest Python script
2. It runs on Linux, Windows Defender slows it down
3. It uses lots of numbers (nobody knows why)
4. It requires a bunch of GPUs (for gaming)
5. No, you can't have sex with it

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Hey! We've been hinting at these for a while now... but it's time to drop the nuke ☢️🔥

Here, you'll find all the information we are currently aware of regarding the upcoming Pixel 11 (P26) lineup, including some news that might surprise you 👀

Without any further ado, let's jump into it:

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📋 General P26 (Pixel 2026) Infos:
🔹 SoC — Tensor G6 (Malibu)
└ Built on TSMC N2 node
• 1× ARM C1-Ultra @ 4.11 GHz
• 4× ARM C1-Pro @ 3.38 GHz
• 2× ARM C1-Pro @ 2.65 GHz
🔹 GSC — Titan M3 (Epic)
🔹 GPU — PowerVR C-Series CXTP-48-1536
🔹 Modem — MediaTek M90 (MT6986D)
🔹 New TPU — Codename: Santafe
🔹 New GXP — Codename: Metis
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📱 Pixel 11 (Cubs):
🔸 SKUs: GPQQ7 (MMW) / GUJ0N (ROW) / GV9X7 (JPN)
🔸 Colors: BLK (Black), GRN (Green), PNK (Pink), PPL (Purple)
🔸 RAM: 8 (?) / 12 GB
🔸 Display: 6.3" OLED, 1080×2424, 60–120 Hz, 240 Hz PWM, up to 2200 nits
🔸 Battery: 4840 mAh (minimal capacity)
🔸 Camera: New main — sensor: chemosh, lens: vesta — very likely 50 MP!
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📱 Pixel 11 Pro (Grizzly):
🔸 SKUs: G7SWN (MMW) / GM45K (ROW) / G9W5D (JPN)
🔸 RAM: 12 / 16 GB (two different SKUs)
🔸 Display: 6.3" OLED, 1280×2856, 1–120 Hz, 240 Hz PWM, up to 2450 nits
🔸 Battery: 4707 mAh (minimal capacity)
🔸 Camera: New main (bastet / vesta) + new telephoto (barghest / chonky)
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📱 Pixel 11 Pro XL (Kodiak):
🔸 SKUs: GBC0H (MMW) / G4HCD (ROW) / GER5L (JP)
🔸 RAM: 12 / 16 GB (two different SKUs)
🔸 Display: 6.8" OLED, 1344×2992, 1–120 Hz, 240 Hz PWM, up to 2450 nits
🔸 Battery: 5000 mAh (minimal capacity)
🔸 Camera: New main (bastet / vesta) + new telephoto (barghest / chonky)
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📱 Pixel 11 Pro Fold (Yogi):
🔸 SKUs: GZDQ6 (MMW) / GM2SN (JPN)
🔸 RAM: 12 / 16 GB
🔸 Inner Display: 2076×2160 OLED, 1–120 Hz, up to 2050 nits
🔸 Outer Display: 1080×2342 OLED, 60–120 Hz, up to 2450 nits
🔸 Battery: 4658 mAh (minimal capacity)
🔸 Camera: New main (chemosh) lens
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✨ And... one more thing! Or two, perhaps...

1️⃣ Both the 11 Pro and the Pro XL, as well as the 11 Pro Fold, won't feature a thermometer (RIP 🥀). Instead, all of them will spot an RGB LED array in the camera bar — somewhat similar to Nothing's Glyph, but smaller.
2️⃣ Despite previous claims, Project Toscana (IR Face Unlock) likely won't debut on the P26 lineup, as it's simply still not ready for release.

P.S: The attached image is AI Generated, but it resembles the actual look of the Pixel 11 Pro's back cover

Do you think Google cooked with this one? Or is it below your expectations?

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