Google Home app brings better support for sensors, one vulnerability affected several phones

Google is working on its all-stock applications to give a better user experience and integrate the core features. Now, the Google Home app is getting all set to bring a new feature, the company is now rolling out better support for sensors and sending out more invites to the Public Preview redesign.

The Home app has long shown door sensors, motion sensors, and other types of sensors. Motion Sensor: Reddit users have spotted this. I’ve also noticed that my Nest Secure door sensors are also now showing their status in the app.

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The other part of this article is CVE-2022-33917 vulnerability news. Yes, Google’s Project Zero mentioned that affects devices using Arm’s Mali GPU, which means it affects Google Pixel, Samsung Galaxy, and countless other Android smartphones.

We reported these five issues to ARM when they were discovered between June and July 2022. ARM fixed the issues promptly in July and August 2022, disclosing them as security issues on their Arm Mali Driver Vulnerabilities page (assigning CVE-2022-36449) and publishing the patched driver source on their public developer website. …we discovered that all of our test devices that used Mali are still vulnerable to these issues. CVE-2022-36449 is not mentioned in any downstream security bulletins.

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