Google changing Goobuntu to rolling release based on Debian testing, rather than big-bang releases every two years based on an LTS: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/how-google-got-to-rolling-linux-releases-for-desktops
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Do users of immutable systems (i.e Nix or Guix) upgrade more or less often than other platforms?
There's less pressure to upgrade (unlike a rolling release distro) but in principle upgrading is easier.
An actively exploited security issue in keyfobs that work by proximity: malicious users can replay signals from the house to the car! https://geekologie.com/2019/08/gone-in-thirty-seconds-doorbell-cam-foot.php
Newer cars use rolling keycodes so you can't replay the same code after locking, but this seems harder to defend against.
AMP for email will make it possible to send interactive emails: https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/26/google-makes-emails-more-dynamic-with-amp-for-email/
Regardless of the feature set, it'll interesting to see if it gains much adoption. Rolling out changes to a distributed system is very hard (cf IRC).
