Meta will soon end Instagram’s end-to-end encrypted chats, citing low adoption and directing users to export affected messages. Explore Get the web's best business technology news, tutorials, reviews, ...

Instagram will officially discontinue end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for direct messages on May 8, 2026. Meta cited low user adoption as the primary reason, though the move follows years of regulatory ...

Social network X is bringing its private messaging service, dubbed X Chat, to a standalone app. The company on Monday said the initial beta of the X Chat app was being made available to thousands of ...

FILE - The exterior view of the European police agency Europol headquarters in The Hague, Netherlands, Friday, Dec. 2, 2016. (AP Photo/Mike Corder, File) (CN) — An attempt to pin the fallout of an ...

Apple is now testing end-to-end encryption for RCS between iPhones and Android devices in iOS 26.4 Beta 2. This builds on last week’s rollout for iPhones only. The feature is still in beta and won’t ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Tyler Thomas told investigators he had been communicating with 17-year-old Hailey Buzbee and playing online games with her for over a year, according to a search warrant affidavit.

INDIANAPOLIS — New court documents from Ohio show the suspect in the disappearance of 17-year-old Hailey Buzbee talked to her for a year before allegedly taking her from her Fishers home. They ...

Apple has updated its App Review Guidelines to expand the list of user-generated content experiences that can be removed from the App Store without notice. Here are the details. Apple’s App Review ...

A popular mobile app called Chat & Ask AI has more than 50 million users across the Google Play Store and Apple App Store. Now, an independent security researcher says the app exposed hundreds of ...

ChatGPT isn’t replacing hotel distribution yet, but it’s becoming too important for hotels to ignore as AI reshapes how trips are planned. Accor on Thursday launched a branded app inside ChatGPT, ...

An international group of plaintiffs sued Meta Platforms, Inc. alleging that the company has made false claims about the privacy and security of its WhatsApp chat service. Meta has made so called “end ...