Android 17 blocks non-accessibility apps from the Accessibility API in Advanced Protection Mode, reducing malware abuse and the attack surface.

With Android 17 Beta 2, which landed last month, Advanced Protection Mode disallows apps that aren't designated as accessibility-related from obtaining the necessary permissions to function. This ...

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In the coming weeks, Google will officially debut Android developer verification, which will require app makers outside the ...

AI-powered dictation startup Wispr Flow has launched its Android app today. The company released its app for Mac and Windows first, then launched on iOS in June 2025. On iOS, users could use Wispr ...

Researchers have discovered the first known Android malware to use generative AI in its execution flow, using Google’s Gemini model to adapt its persistence across different devices. In a report today ...

If you're interested in going paperless, you probably think you need a scanner. It's true that hardware scanners make turning multipage documents into PDFs very simple. But most of us don't have easy ...

If you use an Android phone, this deserves your attention. Cybersecurity researchers warn that hackers are using Hugging Face, a popular platform for sharing artificial intelligence (AI) tools, to ...

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Keeping distracting ads from infiltrating my Android phone has become a necessity rather than a luxury. Blocking them not only saves me time and sanity, but also prevents me from miss-clicking a ...

A new family of Android click-fraud trojans leverages TensorFlow machine learning models to automatically detect and interact with specific advertisement elements. The mechanism relies on visual ...