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How to reserve and change your WhatsApp username
Meta-owned chat app WhatsApp started to roll out username reservations for its 3 billion users earlier in June.…
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Russian government hackers targeting Signal and WhatsApp users, Dutch spies warn
Russian government hackers are targeting Signal and WhatsApp users, particularly government and military officials, as well as journalists…
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After Europe, WhatsApp will let rival AI companies offer chatbots in Brazil
Meta is now allowing rival AI companies to provide their chatbots on WhatsApp to Brazilian users for a…
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Italian prosecutors confirm journalist was hacked with Paragon spyware
Italian authorities confirmed that a journalist who was alerted by WhatsApp last year of a suspected spyware attack…
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India’s Supreme Court to WhatsApp: ‘You cannot play with the right to privacy’
India’s Supreme Court on Tuesday delivered an unusually sharp rebuke to Meta, warning that it would not allow…
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WhatsApp will now charge AI chatbots to operate in Italy
Meta announced Wednesday that it will charge developers for running chatbots on WhatsApp in regions where regulators are…
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WhatsApp is rolling out a new stricter security setting to protect users from cyberattacks
Days after Meta was sued over alleged false privacy claims surrounding its chat app WhatsApp, the company has…
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Meta to test premium subscriptions on Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp
Meta plans to test new subscriptions that give people access to exclusive features on it apps, the company…
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How a hacking campaign targeted high-profile Gmail and WhatsApp users across the Middle East
On Tuesday, U.K.-based Iranian activist Nariman Gharib tweeted redacted screenshots of a phishing link sent to him via…
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After Italy, WhatsApp excludes Brazil from rival chatbot ban
WhatsApp is allowing AI providers to continue offering their chatbots to users with Brazilian phone numbers, days after…