instant messaging
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Airchat Is Basically Twitter With Voice Notes, and That’s Not a Bad Thing
Airchat is an interesting mix of Twitter and Clubhouse.
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Apple Updates iMessage With a New ‘Post-Quantum’ Encryption Protocol
Apple has rolled out an update to iMessage encryption, the likes of which includes post-quantum protections that the company calls the “most significant cryptographic security upgrade” in the messenger’s history. In a blog post published Wednesday, Apple announced the arrival of PQ3, a new encryption protocol designed to seriously upgrade the messenger’s security. Since its…
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‘On My Way to Blow Up the Plane’: Teen Faces Huge Fine After Joke Leads to Fighter Jets Scrambling
In the summer of 2022, 18-year-old Aditya Verma was boarding a flight to Spain at London’s Gatwick Airport when he sent a message to his friend on Snapchat: “On my way to blow up the plane (I’m a member of the Taliban).” As you might expect, the message was a joke. Unfortunately, the kid happened…
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Android iMessage-Style Messaging App Sunbird Shuts Down Over Serious Privacy Concerns
This week brought a series of disasters (and quite some embarrassment) to Android messaging apps that were trying hard to break the infamous green-blue bubble barrier between Android and Apple users. It started with the failure of Nothing Chats and recently extended to the shutdown of Sunbird. Nothing Chats launched fairly recently (and didn’t even…