Google has introduced Advanced Flow for Android, requiring a 24-hour wait, reboot, and biometric check before sideloading apps from unverified developers.

OpenAI has acquired Astral, the company behind Python tools uv and Ruff, to integrate them into its Codex platform as it competes with Anthropic's Claude Code.

Sideloading has been a key part of Android since the beginning, not only delivering a lot of flexibility to Android, but also ...