According to Snap, the selected creators will get a $10,000 monthly stipend for 12 months. They will also be provided with mentorship from existing top creators on the platform. Snapchat partners Google Pixel, Westbrook Media, and UNCMMN will help with educational curricula and tailored workshops for participants. All creators will also be upgraded to the Snap Star status and granted early access to new features on Snapchat so they can provide feedback on them....

Spotted by Protocol, Sonos is hiring a “Head of Partnerships, Home Theatre” who will “play a pivotal role in connecting users to the content and services they love with Sonos quality experiences they’ve come to expect”. The company will prefer people with demonstrated experience in “home theater or home entertainment domain.” The audio biggie also has a job opening for a “UX Lead- Next Generation Home Theater Experience” who will be responsible for “defining and evolving the Next Generation Home Theater experience” at the company....

The ZenFone 8 will have the basic changes we see in Android 12 The ZenFone 8 will have the basic changes we see in Android 12 Companies like OnePlus and Samsung have constructed their own unique flavor of Android, and their aesthetics are distinguishable from the rest of the pack. Asus, on the other hand, sticks close to Stock Android. You won’t see a special Asus-branded UI over Android 12. This means that you will be getting Android 12 pretty much as it comes from Google, which is for better or worse depending on how you like Google’s direction....

This smartphone concept design looks different, and in a good way This smartphone concept design looks different, and in a good way This design was shared by Jonas Daehnert, a well-known concept designer, amongst other things. He shared this design on Twitter, following the Nothing phone (1) announcement, though it doesn’t have anything to do with that device. As some of you probably already know, Nothing announced that its first smartphone, the phone (1), is coming this Summer....

Google’s Project Zero discloses five zero-day vulnerabilities Google’s Project Zero discloses five zero-day vulnerabilities Project Zero researcher Jann Horn discovered five exploitable vulnerabilities in the ARM Mali GPU driver between June and July this year. One of the security flaws can lead to kernel memory corruption while another can disclose physical memory addresses to userspace. The remaining three lead to a physical page use-after-free condition. These flaws would “enable an attacker to continue to read and write physical pages after they had been returned to the system,” Ian Beer of Project Zero explains....