Dead touchscreen? This Android tool lets you extract files from an unresponsive phone

If you've ever broken your phone's screen but still wanted to get data or files from it, you know how painful that can be, ...
SecurityWeek

Exclusive: How One Line of Code Put Billions of Microsoft Android App Downloads at Risk

Six Microsoft 365 Android apps contain an identical flaw that could risk billions of downloads being compromised. The ...
Android

Infostealer Malware Sneaks into Popular Codex UI Tool After One Month of Building Trust

Cybersecurity researchers at Aikido Security have uncovered a malicious supply chain attack targeting OpenAI Codex developers via the npm package “codexui-android”. While the associated GitHub ...
The Hacker News

OpenAI Codex Authentication Tokens Stolen in codexui-android npm Supply Chain Attack

Codex tokens were exfiltrated via a popular npm package, affecting users since v0.1.82 and enabling persistent account access ...

Android may soon play much nicer with PCs, NAS systems, and local networks

Google is implementing a networking upgrade for Android that could make local file sharing and network access feel much more ...
CNET

How to Tell if Google Chrome Secretly Downloaded a 4GB AI Model to Your Device

Google Chrome could be taking up some extra storage space on your device. Based on reports from earlier this month, the browser has been automatically downloading a 4GB AI model onto some users' hard ...
ZDNet

My new favorite Android file manager is way better than Google's default - and it's free

Material Files is a well-designed Android file manager. This app blows away the competition. Material Files is free and can be installed from the Play Store. I've tried so many Android file managers ...
MacRumors

Google Makes It Easier to Share Files Between Android and iPhone

Google today said it is introducing updated file sharing features that will make it easier for Android users to send files to iPhone users. Quick Share is already compatible with Apple's AirDrop ...
Neowin

Visual Studio Code May 2023 update adds read-only mode tagging for files and folders

Microsoft has updated Visual Studio Code. It comes with several updates of interest to developers including GitHub Copilot Chat improvements and read-only mode for specific files and folders. GitHub ...
Engadget

Chrome downloads a 4GB AI file without user consent, researcher alleges

If you've paid any attention to Google lately, you know that it wants us using its AI tools. So much so that Chrome apparently downloads a 4GB file containing details for running Gemini Nano, Google's ...
Techno-Science.net

Files is the Best File Explorer Alternative for Your Windows PC

Files is a powerful, modern alternative to Windows File Explorer, built on WinUI 3 with a clean UI, dual-pane support, tabs, tags, and advanced tools like previews, Git, and FTP. It fixes many ...
The Verge

Nothing makes it easy to share files between any Android phone and a Mac

The Warp app quickly sends files between Android and a Mac, Windows, or Linux machine. The Warp app quickly sends files between Android and a Mac, Windows, or Linux machine. is a news editor with over ...