6 posts tagged ‘WhatsApp’
Meta’s iOS Interoperability Requests
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Juli Clover: Apple today said that Meta has made 15 interoperability requests under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) in the European Union, which is more than any other company.In a statement provided to Reuters, Apple said that Meta is asking for changes that could compromise user security and privacy.[…]In response to Apple’s comments on Meta’s […]
WhatsApp v. NSO Group
Reuters (via Hacker News, Court Listener): U.S. judge ruled on Friday in favor of Meta Platforms’, WhatsApp in a lawsuit accusing Israel’s NSO Group of exploiting a bug in the messaging app to install spy software allowing unauthorized surveillance.[…]WhatsApp in 2019 sued NSO seeking an injunction and damages, accusing it of accessing WhatsApp servers without […]
US Officials Recommend Encrypted Messaging Apps
Kevin Collier: The hacking campaign, nicknamed Salt Typhoon by Microsoft, is one of the largest intelligence compromises in U.S. history, and it has not yet been fully remediated. Officials on a news call Tuesday refused to set a timetable for declaring the country’s telecommunications systems free of interlopers. […] In the call Tuesday, two officials […]
Hypertextual Writing and Social Media
John Gruber (Mastodon): It also brought to mind how social media has largely kneecapped true hypertextual writing by not enabling it. You can, of course, add links to web pages in social media posts on any of the various basically-the-same-concept-as-Twitter platforms like X, Threads, Bluesky, or Mastodon, but you do so by pasting raw URLs […]
WhatsApp now lets you pin messages in individual and group chats
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WhatsApp is rolling out the ability to pin chats within one-on-one and group conversations. The company said users can pin all kinds of conversations, including text, polls, images and emojis. However, users can pin only one chat at a time. The Meta-owned chat app mentioned that you can pin a chat by long-pressing on a […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
WhatsApp Supports Photos and Video in Original Quality
Tim Hardwick: WhatsApp is rolling out a new option that lets users on iPhone share photos and video over the messaging platform in their original quality.[…]WhatsApp’s latest feature avoids compression altogether by allowing photos and video to be shared as files, thereby preserving their original quality. Being able to send full-quality media is one of […]