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well you've probably heard that the 1 plus 6 is a pretty serious security flaw that allows anyone to bypass it's locked bootloader but a fix is on the way a security researcher named Donna Feld has discovered a vulnerability on the 1 plus 6 that lets you bypass the phones locked bootloader with any modified boot image you do need physical access to the phone to take advantage of the vulnerability but oneplus has said they are aware of it and will soon be pushing out a software update to fix the issue now if you remember a week or so ago I was talking about how some Google employees have quit their jobs in protest over Google's involvement in military-grade artificial intelligence for the US government well Google has responded with their AI principles it's titled AI at Google our principles and they are made up of seven AI objectives and a section about AI applications that the company will not pursue in the post Google also acknowledges the significant impact AI will have on society and said that it feels a deep responsibility to get AI right now here are those principles be socially beneficial avoid creating or reinforcing unfair bias be built and tested for safety be accountable to people incorporate privacy design principles uphold high standards of scientific excellence be made available for uses that accord with these principles so what do you think of Google's principles what do I think well the older I get the more cautious and suspicious I become you see Google doesn't have to be accountable to anyone except for their shareholders and their shareholders don't want principles they want bank so when they say things like be accountable to the people what people and and how does that accountability manifest itself by writing letters is they just relying on journalists tech tech media how does that actually work Google doesn't have to actually answer to anyone except their shareholders they're their actual real-life accountability does not a core with exercising or implementing these principles call me jaded that's just what I think it's good PR and it placates those who don't really want to press them too hard what do you think let me know right there but let's talk Oppo remember Oppo well Oppo seems to be coming out with a new flagship that's very similar to another one a Weibo tipster published what seems to be an official Oppo find teaser image complete with a few specs scattered at the bottom of the image these specs specifically mentioned they snap shark an 845 chipset 8 gigabytes of RAM 256 gigabytes of storage this would make the find XA match for the top-end 1 plus 6 which offers the same chipset RAM and storage capacity but that isn't the only speculate tena listing that since been deleted was spotted by playful drew in a few days ago and it gives us a stack of potential details the outlet noted a 2.8 gigahertz octa-core chipset the same clock speed as the 845 Snapdragon 800 bytes of RAM 128 gigabytes of storage and a 16 and 20 megapixel dual camera pairing other specs include a twenty five megapixel selfie camera 25 megapixels and a 3645 milliamp hour battery we can only wait for the official reveal to find out if these specs are the real deal so what do you guys think of that there's also some rumors that the Oppo find X will have some sort of fast charging capability also a five time optical zoom do those things excite you let me know in the comments below or on Twitter IT people know how this works you're trying to do focus productive work on your screen but your screen likes up like a Christmas tree with IT alerts and notifications you're not being productive you're being distracted but you can reduce that noise with moog soft AI ops by up to 99% moog soft AI ops is an algorithmic IT ops platform that reduces your IT alerts and tickets by up to 99 percent by integrating with your existing IT tools so you can focus on tackling stuff that matters visit Moog soft calm for a free demo that's Moog soft calm bang-bang