TechLinked W11 Search improvement, White House App, Apple Swift on Android + more!
Mar 31, 2026
Windows 11 search gets streamlined to surface apps and local files faster. The White House mobile app raises privacy and UX concerns. Apple’s Swift now supports building Android apps, easing cross-platform code sharing. GitHub Copilot briefly injected promotional text into PRs. Sony pauses memory card orders and a piracy streaming app was shut down. Researchers demo wireless comms 100 meters underground.
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Windows 11 Search Gets A Native App Push
- Windows 11 Search will get major fixes to make it less cluttered and rank local files and core tools higher.
- Microsoft plans to move away from PWAs toward 100% native Windows 11 apps, with a hiring push led by Rudy Hoyne for native app work.
White House App Code Sparked A False Tracking Panic
- The White House app caused panic when decompiled code appeared to show frequent GPS tracking to a third party.
- Follow-up analysis showed the GPS pipeline was dormant and never invoked, though the app still requests location and contains buggy social features.
Swift 6.3 Enables Reusing iPhone Code On Android
- Swift 6.3 adds stable tooling so developers can write Android apps with Swift and translate iPhone code into Android projects.
- The toolkit mainly helps reuse backend logic across platforms, saving rewrite work for cross-platform ports.