TechSpot

Android isn't killing sideloading, but it's making it a lot harder

A hot potato: A year after announcing the most significant change to Android in a long time, Google is now introducing a new process aimed at making the mobile platform "open" again. Mountain View ...
Bleeping Computer

Microsoft testing Windows 11 batch file security improvements

Microsoft is rolling out new Windows 11 Insider Preview builds that improve security and performance during batch file or CMD script execution. As Microsoft explained today, IT administrators can now ...
MacRumors

iOS 26.4 Beta Adds End-to-End Encryption for iPhone-to-Android RCS Texts

With the second iOS 26.4 beta, Apple and Google have started testing end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for RCS messages exchanged between iPhone and Android users. Apple started testing E2EE for RCS in the ...
9to5google

Google, Apple start testing encrypted RCS on Android and iOS 26.4

Google and Apple today announced that testing of encrypted RCS messaging between Android and iPhone is now underway. Part of the RCS Universal Profile from the GSMA, messages between Android and iOS ...
Lifehacker

You Can Finally Back Up Your Android's Local Files

Emily Long is a freelance writer based in Salt Lake City. After graduating from Duke University, she spent several years reporting on the federal workforce for Government Executive, a publication of ...
BGR

iOS 26.4 Beta Is Testing One Of Android's Best RCS Features

After years of back and forth about blue bubbles and green bubbles, Apple finally addressed the need for better text messaging services between Android and iPhones with the introduction of RCS (rich ...
Droid Life

Android Gets a New “Local File Backup” Feature for Google Drive

Google updated its Google System Services Release Notes page today and it introduces a new feature that adds some sort of local file backup via Google Drive. The specifics around how it works are ...
Search Engine Roundtable

Googlebot File Limit Is 15MB But 64MB For PDF & 2MB For Other File Types

We have known for a long time that Google can crawl web pages up to the first 15MB but now Google updated some of its help documentation to clarify that it will crawl the first 64MB of a PDF file and ...
autoevolution

Android Auto 16.1 Beta Now Available for Testing

Google has just pressed the go-ahead button for Android Auto 16.1. The new update is currently exclusive to beta users (those enrolled in the testing program). However, anyone can give it a try by ...
Morningstar

BrowserStack Bridges Developer-QA Productivity Gap with Test Failure Analysis Agent

DUBLIN, Dec. 16, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- BrowserStack, the world's leading software testing platform, today launched its AI-powered Test Failure Analysis Agent, an autonomous system that debugs test ...
Android

One UI 8.5 Testing Officially Begins on the Galaxy S24 Ultra

The first One UI 8.5 internal test firmware for the Galaxy S24 Ultra has been spotted on the server. But it isn’t clear whether Samsung would include the Galaxy S24 series in the One UI 8.5 beta ...
Engadget

Android is getting a slew of new accessibility features

Google has announced a slew of new accessibility features coming to Android ahead of International Day of Persons with Disabilities on Wednesday. Advanced voice dictation, expanded support for an ...