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What actually happens when your phone stops getting security updates?
Nothing happens on the day, which is why this is so easy to ignore. Here is the real sequence: what changes, in what order, why the dangerous part is the one with no signal, and why the thing that finally forces most people to act is a banking app rather than an attack.
Ahmad J · Aug 16, 2026 · 11 min read
How long will my phone get security updates?
Motorola and OnePlus print the end date because UK law makes them. Google publishes a promise you can count from. Samsung publishes what it is patching right now. Apple publishes nothing about duration at all. Four kinds of answer, why flattening them into one column of years gets most of them wrong, and the iPhone from 2015 that got a security update in May 2026.
Ahmad J · Aug 16, 2026 · 17 min read
A door closes, a window opens: Project Zero's 0-click chain reaches the Pixel 10 kernel
An SMS you never open. A brand-new driver on a phone that's supposed to be more secure. Project Zero walked a 0-click exploit from the Pixel 9's kernel onto the Pixel 10, and the newer handset gave them a shorter path. Inside the chain, and why kernel bugs outlive the patch.
Ahmad J · Aug 4, 2026 · 5 min read