Weekly output: Android + Chrome OS, Qualcommâs AI vision, Microsoft cancels some IDF Unit 8200 services
This weekâs trip to Hawaii and back for Qualcommâs Snapdragon Summitâwith that company paying my airfare and lodging for its invitation-only eventâreminded me once again of the vast size of the United States. And yet I was able to wake up painfully early Friday morning on Maui, take a flight to San Francisco, board a second flight from SFO to Dulles, and land at IAD in time to catch the nightâs last eastbound Silver Line train from the airport.
9/25/2025: Google Teases Its Android PC Project Again. Qualcomm Says âItâs Incredibleâ, PCMag
I wrote an update to this post by PCMagâs U.K.-based correspondent James Peckham after seeing a Google executive share a few more details about this upcoming rebuild of ChromeOS on an Android foundation in Wednesdayâs keynote.
9/25/2025: Qualcommâs CEO Touts a Future Where AI (and Cameras) Are Everywhere, PCMag
It wasnât until I was an hour into writing up Tuesday afternoonâs keynote early Wednesday morning that I realized how Qualcommâs vision of AI acting upon the inputs of always-on cameras in smart glasses and cars unintentionally echoed the âalways-on cameraâ branding it had briefly and unwisely picked for a human-presence detection system in smartphones almost four years earlier.
9/27/2025: Whatâs behind Microsoftâs canceling of some services to Israelâs military?, Al Jazeera
I didnât get to sleep in Saturday morning after coming home around 2 a.m. Instead, Al Jazeera asked me to join this discussion recorded then about Microsoft canceling some cloud services for the Israeli Defense Forces after reporting by the Guardian and the Israel-based news outlets +972 Magazine and Local Call documented how the IDFâs Unit 8200 had employed those services to conduct a pervasive and invasive surveillance campaign against Palestinians. My fellow panelists: Taghreed El-Khodary, a Palestinian journalist now based in the Netherlands, and Kenneth Roth, former executive director of Human Rights Watch. One of my contributions was reminding viewers of Microsoft president Brad Smithâs words at Web Summit 2018: âThe tools that weâve created, the tools often times that youâve created, have been turned by others into weapons.â
#AI #android #BradSmith #ChromeOS #CristianoAmon #Gaza #GoogleOSes #IDF #Microsoft #privacy #Qualcomm #SameerSamat #smartGlasses #SnapdragonSummit #Unit8200
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