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Android's sideloading changes, the big Visual Studio Code update, better Linux phones, and more: News roundup

Everything you may have missed from the past week.
IEEE

Elysian: Building Emotionally Responsive Non-Playable Characters using Integration of FSM and Generative AI for Real-Time Dialogues in Visual Games

Abstract: Elysian is a modular architecture designed to generate emotionally expressive and contextually coherent dialogue for non-playable characters (NPCs) in interactive games. As the first ...
Comstock's Magazine

Meet the Sacramento Founder Building a New Kind of Video Game Studio

This story is part of our March 2026 issue. To read the print version, click here. This story is part of our March 2026 issue. To read the print version, click here. Growing up, Jessica Flor remembers ...
IEEE

CacheAlarm: Monitoring Sensitive Behaviors of Android Apps Using Cache Side Channel

Abstract: Malware attack has been a serious threat to the security and privacy of both individual and corporation users of the Android platform. Business entities seek to protect themselves by means ...
Android Authority

Android apps keep using Apple's Liquid Glass design, and it's killing me

If I wanted Liquid Glass, I’d buy an iPhone. It doesn’t belong on Android. And yet, I’m seeing more and more of Apple’s design language — or half-baked versions of it — pop up in apps on my Google ...