Facebook Messenger Will Drop Support for SMS Messages in September: All Details

Facebook Messenger Will Drop Support for SMS Messages in September: All Details

Facebook Messenger will drop support for sending SMS messages over a cellular network soon. The Meta-owned messaging platform introduced SMS integration on Android smartphones in 2016 and allowed users to view text messages alongside messages from Facebook users in a single app. Currently, SMS text messages appear in purple, and…

Norway Regulator to Fine Facebook Parent Meta ,500 per Day Over Privacy Breaches From August 14

Norway Regulator to Fine Facebook Parent Meta $98,500 per Day Over Privacy Breaches From August 14

Facebook owner Meta Platforms will be fined 1 million crowns ($98,500) per day over privacy breaches from August 14, Norway’s data protection authority told Reuters on Monday, a decision that could have wider European implications. The regulator, Datatilsynet, had said on July 17 that the company would be fined if…

Meta Chief Mark Zuckerberg Comments on Threads About Cage-Fight Against X’s Head Elon Musk

Meta Chief Mark Zuckerberg Comments on Threads About Cage-Fight Against X’s Head Elon Musk

Meta co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg took to Threads on Monday to post about his ‘cage-fight’ with Elon Musk, the owner of X (formerly Twitter).  The development comes as Musk on Sunday said that his potential in-person fight with Mark Zuckerberg would be streamed on his social media site X….

WhatsApp Beta Version Allows Testers to Try New Voice Chats and ‘Send for Admin Review’ Feature

WhatsApp Beta Version Allows Testers to Try New Voice Chats and ‘Send for Admin Review’ Feature

WhatsApp beta — the company’s testing version of the popular messaging app — has added a new feature with the latest update. Previously referred to as audio chats, this feature allows users to start a voice call in a group. Meanwhile, a recent beta update also added support for sending…

Elon Musk Says Cage Fight With Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg Will Be Livestreamed on X

Elon Musk Says Cage Fight With Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg Will Be Livestreamed on X

Elon Musk said in a social media post that his proposed cage fight with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg would be live-streamed on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. The social media moguls have been egging each other into a mixed martial arts cage match in Las Vegas since…

Twitter Now ‘X’ on Both Android and iOS Platforms; Tweets Relabeled as ‘Posts’

Twitter Now ‘X’ on Both Android and iOS Platforms; Tweets Relabeled as ‘Posts’

Twitter was recently rebranded as X by owner Elon Musk. On Friday, Musk claimed that the social media platform reached “new heights” with more than 540 million monthly users as compared to the reported 229 million monthly active users in May 2022. Musk took over the site in November 2022,…

Elon Musk Says X, Formerly Twitter, Reaches ‘New High’ With Over 540 Million Monthly Users

Elon Musk Says X, Formerly Twitter, Reaches ‘New High’ With Over 540 Million Monthly Users

Elon Musk said on Friday that monthly users of social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, reached a “new high” and shared a graph that showed the latest count as over 540 million. Musk’s post on X about the user figures comes as the company goes through organisational changes…

OpenAI, Alphabet, Meta Commit to Watermark AI-Generated Content for Safer Tech, Assures White House

OpenAI, Alphabet, Meta Commit to Watermark AI-Generated Content for Safer Tech, Assures White House

Top AI companies including OpenAI, Alphabet, and Meta Platforms have made voluntary commitments to the White House to implement measures such as watermarking AI-generated content to help make the technology safer, the Biden administration said. The companies – which also include Anthropic, Inflection, Amazon.com, and OpenAI partner Microsoft – pledged…

Apple Opposes UK Push to Bypass End-to-End Encryption, Says It Will Remove iMessage and FaceTime: Report

Apple Opposes UK Push to Bypass End-to-End Encryption, Says It Will Remove iMessage and FaceTime: Report

Apple has strongly opposed a move by the British parliament to amend an act that would allow the government to order messaging services to weaken the encryption that protects their users. The Cupertino company said it will not compromise the end-to-end encryption that it offers to its iMessage users for…