Android may soon play much nicer with PCs, NAS systems, and local networks

Google is implementing a networking upgrade for Android that could make local file sharing and network access feel much more ...
Business Insider

How to manage 'Local Network Access' on your iPhone or iPad and grant or revoke permission for apps

If you have iOS 14 or later on your iPhone (or iPadOS 14 on an iPad), then you might have seen an app ask permission to "find and connect to devices on your local network." It's not always clear what ...
Ars Technica

what does the "access local network resources" on Sequoia actually mean?

So now that macOS Sequoia is here, half the apps on my machine are asking for permission to "access local network resources", but is there an explanation somewhere about what that actually means? Do ...
Ars Technica

A couple local networking questions: remote desktop, file sharing, bittorent

I have just picked up a new PC and want to turn my old system into a headless, dedicated media server. I have a few questions around that. 1. I have Windows 11 Home on the old system. I need something ...
Macworld

How to fix your network when you see ‘Another device is using your IP address’ on a Mac

Internet networking involves a lot of alchemy, and I confess to occasionally dropping an eye of newt (or an IP of newt) into a boiling pot to fix problems on my local network. There’s a particular ...