Losing a chat on WhatsApp can feel bad, more so when the note had value or care. The good news is that lost chats can often come back. This guide shows how, in clear steps, with no rush and no tricks.

Google has set out three tentpoles for Gemini: personal, proactive, and powerful. The company made big strides on the first pillar with Personal Intelligence, but there’s a very obvious blind spot ...

US law enforcement has been investigating allegations by former Meta Platforms Inc. contractors that Meta personnel can access WhatsApp messages, despite the company’s statements that the chat service ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Most of WhatsApp’s 3 billion users probably don’t know it, but a prominent Los Angeles law firm is trying to speak on their behalf in a lawsuit filed against its owner Meta that ...

WhatsApp is claiming that a new lawsuit accusing it of failing to encrypt users’ communications is simply retaliation from an Israeli spyware company it has been battling for years. The longstanding ...

Dead phones during emergencies are dangerous, but discovering your “private” messages aren’t actually private? That’s a different kind of crisis entirely. A massive class-action lawsuit filed January ...

Ripple effect: Questions about whether WhatsApp's encryption works as Meta describes have taken center stage in a new international lawsuit filed in a US federal court, where plaintiffs allege that ...

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This WhatsApp Link Can Hand Over Your Account in Seconds Your email has been sent A sophisticated phishing campaign impersonating WhatsApp Web uses fake meeting links ...

Manchester United’s head of recruitment, Christopher Vivell, is reported to have questioned Ruben Amorim’s favoured 3-4-2-1 formation in a private WhatsApp group for the club’s hierarchy. Amorim had ...

Researchers warn of a new WhatsApp “GhostPairing” attack that silently links attacker devices to accounts, enabling message spying without users knowing. Image: Generated via Google’s Nano Banana ...

A malicious package in the Node Package Manager (NPM) registry poses as a legitimate WhatsApp Web API library to steal WhatsApp messages, collect contacts, and gain access to the account. A fork of ...