The Next Web

The captive portal economy: how hotel WiFi sign-in pages became both a security vector and a hidden ad channel

KeepSolid CEO Vasyl Ivanov explains how hotel WiFi captive portals evolved into both a security vulnerability and a programmatic ad channel, and what VPN clients should do about it.

Internet down? 3 ways I use an old Android phone as a backup connection for my home router

I needed a way to connect my phone to my router, and have it work reliably. Turns out, I have 3 options (and I saved the best ...
Android Police

Android Auto's connection nightmare may finally be over

I've been covering Android and other mobile technology for close to ten years now, with a specific interest in phone accessories, e-readers, and what makes each individual phone different from another ...
TechRepublic

Google Reportedly Wants Android App Code From Play Store Developers

Google is reportedly offering select Play Store developers payment for access to app source code. For Android developers in APAC, the offer raises questions about IP rights, security risks, AI-use ...
CNBC

Agentic AI could disrupt the internet the way AI coding disrupted software: UBS' Hoffmann-Burchardi

Ulrike Hoffmann-Burchardi, UBS CIO for global equities, joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss the latest market trends, state of the economy, impact of the Iran war, state of the AI boom, and more. Got a ...
WUSA

Google unveils AI tools that let users build Android apps without coding

WASHINGTON — Google is making it easier for people to create Android apps with artificial intelligence, even if they don’t know how to code. At its Google I/O developer conference this week, the ...
9to5google

Google just tested a bunch of new AI models for Android app coding – here are the rankings

Google has once again updated its “Android Bench” rankings for the best AI models for Android app development, with a bunch of new “open-weight” models as well as more details on the tokens used and ...
MIT Technology Review

Anthropic’s Code with Claude showed off coding’s future—whether you like it or not

As tools like Claude Code get better, more and more developers are happy to hand off coding tasks to them. The way software gets built has changed for good. The vibes were strong at Code with Claude, ...
The Verge

Google is launching an Android version of its AI Studio vibe coding tool.

The app, which you can pre-register for on Google Play, will let you use AI and prompts to starting building other apps. If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See ...
The Next Web

Android CLI 1.0 arrives to give AI coding agents full access to Android Studio

Google has released Android CLI 1.0 at Google I/O 2026, giving AI coding agents such as Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and Antigravity programmatic access to Android Studio’s toolchain from the command ...
TechCrunch

Agentic app coding gets an upgrade with Google’s release of Android CLI

In addition to serving up its own flavor of vibe-coding tools for building on Android, Google announced it will also offer tools that allow AI agents, like Claude Code, OpenAI’s Codex, or its own ...