Android’s New Advanced Flow: How To Sideload Apps After Google’s 2026 Security Update

Google went back to the drawing board on its plans to limit sideloading, implementing a new system that looks to strike a balance between security and openness.

Google Just Made Four Big Upgrades to Android Gaming on Your Windows PC

After some recent updates, Google Play gaming on PC is better than ever—here's how to get started syncing your data between platforms ...

Here’s How Google’s ‘Safer’ Sideloading Works on Android

While Google is restricting app downloads from sources other than the Google Play Store, the company will allow sideloading ...

Google Reveals New Android Sideloading System: One-Day Wait, Then Full Access

Google has just shared details behind 'Advanced Flow', a brand new Android app sideloading system. It's more tedious, but possible.
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Google Unveils New Process For Installing Unverified Android Apps

It’s no secret that Google really doesn’t like it that people are installing Android applications from any other source than ...
CNET

Microsoft Researchers Figure Out How to Store Data Inside Glass Using Lasers

Most of the world's information is stored digitally right now. Every year, we generate more data than we did the year before. Now, with AI in the picture, a technology that relies on a whole lot of ...
Wired

You Can Now Install—and Update—Microsoft Store Apps Using the Command Line

I can't stand opening the Microsoft Store. It's slow to load, confusing to browse, and full of ads for things I don't care about. Luckily, thanks to a new feature, I don't have to open the Microsoft ...
Tom's Guide

I quit ChatGPT — here's how I moved everything to Claude and Gemini without losing my data (or my mind)

AI ChatGPT is no longer my go-to chatbot — 10 reasons Gemini works better for how I work AI I swapped ChatGPT for Claude for a week — and these 5 features convinced me to stay AI I found the best ...
WeLiveSecurity

PromptSpy ushers in the era of Android threats using GenAI

ESET researchers uncovered the first known case of Android malware abusing generative AI for context-aware user interface manipulation. While machine learning has been used to similar ends already – ...
ZDNet

3 ways to switch Linux distros without losing all your data

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SlashGear

Changing 5 Phone Settings Can Limit The Amount Of Data Apps Collect About You

"There's an app for that" was a phrase plastered onto advertisements for the Apple iPhone starting in 2009. Only about a year old at that point, the App Store was changing people's relationship with ...
GizChina

Xiaomi: How Pre-Installed Apps Secretly Drain Battery Life Without You Noticing

HyperOS displays ads throughout system apps, app drawer, and file manager by default Disable ads by turning off User Experience Program, msa (MIUI System Ads), and System Daemon Individual apps like ...