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On its 10th anniversary, Signal’s president wants to remind you that the world’s most secure communications platform is a nonprofit. It’s free. It doesn’t track you or serve you ads. It pays its engineers very well. And it’s a go-to app for hundreds of millions of people.

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Drug dealers, scammers and white nationalists openly conduct business and spread toxic speech on the platform, according to a Times analysis of more than 3.2 million Telegram messages.

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There’s still no set timeline for the remedies phase.

Disney+ finally profitable but not making as much per subscriber as competition.

The platform is rolling out better revenue sharing for paid experiences and a new creator affiliate program.

Meta on Friday published an update on how it plans to comply with the Digital Markets Act (DMA), the European law that aims to promote competition in digital marketplaces, where the law concerns the company’s messaging apps, Messenger and WhatsApp.

US users of Kaspersky will be offloaded to a new antivirus provider called UltraAV after the Biden administration banned Kaspersky products for alleged national security risks.

Earlier this week, the EU’s lead privacy regulator ended its court proceeding related to how X processed user data to train its Grok AI chatbot, but the saga isn’t over yet for the Elon Musk-owned social media platform formerly known as Twitter.

Telegram has updated its website to explicitly allow users to report private chats to its moderators, the company said in its FAQ page, as it updated some of its other privacy features following the arrest of founder Pavel Durov in France last month over “crimes committed by third parties” on the platform.

Using special software, WIRED investigated police surveillance at the DNC. We collected signals from nearly 300,000 devices, revealing vulnerabilities for both law enforcement and everyday citizens alike.

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Core drilling is tricky. Getting a 6 GHz signal through concrete is now easier.

Microsoft announced today that it has partnered with StopNCII to proactively remove harmful intimate images and videos from Bing using digital hashes people create from their sensitive media.

Ars cited in lawsuit AT&T recently filed against Broadcom.

In a brief update ahead of the weekend, the London transport network said it has no evidence yet that customer data was compromised.

More antitrust woes for Google. The U.K’.s competition watchdog said on Friday that it suspects the company of adtech antitrust abuses. The tech giant will now have a chance to respond to the provisional findings before the regulator reaches a final decision.

OSOM always had a difficult road, with plans to launch a privacy-focused handset.

Sudden subscription fees, lost features causing users "death by a thousand cuts."

Can the fear of students using generative AI and the rise of questionable AI “checker” tools create a culture devoid of creativity? It’s a topic that is curiously one worth delving into a bit more deeply, in part because of something that happened this weekend.

Bot shouldn't have political opinions, says Amazon

Discord is lowering the upload limit for free users from 25MB to 10MB, citing operational and financial reasons.

It could make it easier to locate lost devices.

We’re not very close to any specifics on how, exactly, AI regulations will be implemented and ensured, but today a swathe of countries including the U.S., the U.K. and the European Union signed up to a treaty on AI safety laid out by the Council of Europe (COE), an international standards and human rights organization.

The board said these posts aren’t calls for action.

The deal is expected to close in around 18 months.