In a nutshell: The European Parliament has spent the past several years grappling with whether to allow or compel platform holders to scan everyone's messages for Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM). A ...

Companies will once again be allowed to scan citizens’ personal texts, emails, and social media messages via the “Chat Control” bill to find child abuse material online. The European Parliament has ...

EU lawmakers have again allowed tech firms to scan chats for abuse material, but exempted end-to-end encrypted messages. The European Parliament has passed legislation allowing tech firms to scan ...

We knew this day was coming even if Samsung had yet to mention a specific day, but today appears to be that day. Samsung Messages is officially discontinued and the app now points users in the US to ...

Google Messages is finally giving Android users more customization and personalization options with “Chat themes.” Update 6/26: Since Tuesday, more Google Messages beta users (version 20260622_01_RC00 ...

Earlier in the week, a small group of Google Messages users noticed that they were able to set a Chat Theme after weeks of teases and early previews for the feature. Today, Chat Themes in Google ...

Google Messages has started rolling out custom "Chat themes" with customizable backgrounds. The update appears in the chat menu, replacing the earlier "Change colors" option and adding both color ...

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With the new Workspace icons fully rolled out, Google is now tweaking how Chat appears in the Android status bar to look less like Messages. The homescreen icons are pretty distinguished in terms of ...

The Poke app will give Siri even more competition, as it lets you send emails, set reminders, generate images, and more, right from the Apple Messages app. Following its public launch in March 2026, ...

Anyone with a Microsoft 365 account can use new AI agents in Copilot Chat to jump-start Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents — and some users can enlist a special agent to analyze their M365 files.

Meta is expanding its in-app AI-powered summaries feature on WhatsApp to include unread context across multiple chats. Here are the details. WhatsApp to expand in-app AI summaries As spotted by ...