YouTube is quietly testing a comeback for its in-app private messaging feature, nearly six years after shuttering the ...

After YouTube discontinued its private messaging feature in 2019, the platform is now reintroducing this functionality for a ...

Jack Dorsey — Twitter, Bluesky, and Square co-founder and Bitcoin evangelist — is now taking on the world of private messaging apps. Announced earlier this week, Dorsey's latest project is called ...

The Trump administration is facing heavy blowback for using Signal, a messaging app, to discuss sensitive military plans. On March 24, officials’ usage of the app was revealed after The Atlantic ...

WhatsApp was the first mobile private messaging service to gain critical mass. Then, Meta (formerly Facebook) bought the platform. Now, 100 million people use WhatsApp each month, and it's easy to ...

Encrypted messaging platform Signal now offers secure backups on iPhone, letting users save and restore messages if they lose ...

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin supported two privacy messaging apps that are looking to break past sector leaders Signal ...

The recent national security breach involving a Signal group chat has raised concerns regarding the messaging app’s security. Cybersecurity experts are split on how secure the encrypted messaging ...

Some people believe that using private messaging apps such as Signal and WhatsApp ensures total security. The truth is otherwise. Although these apps provide end-to-end encryption, their security can ...

The Trump administration is facing heavy blowback for using Signal, a messaging app, to discuss sensitive military plans. On March 24, officials’ usage of the app was revealed after The Atlantic ...

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