Telegram's premium tier will include new features like 4 GB file uploads, faster downloads, and exclusive stickers and reactions.

“There’s real tension between offering an easy way to offer this interoperability to third parties whilst at the same time preserving the WhatsApp privacy, security, and integrity bar,” says Dick ...

Encrypted messengers are having a second wave. Apps like WhatsApp, iMessage and Signal made end-to-end encryption (E2EE) a default expectation. But most still hinge on phone numbers, centralized ...

iMessages is supposed to be bulletproof. Apple claims its end-to-end encrypted messaging service, as well as its video messaging app FaceTime, are so secure that even it lacks the means to decrypt the ...

A new startup called Germ is bringing end-to-end encrypted messaging to the Bluesky social network, allowing its users to have a more secure option for chats than Bluesky’s existing DMs. After over ...

The messaging app Signal made news in March after a handful of White House officials, including Vice President JD Vance, used the app to communicate with each other (and, inadvertently, a journalist) ...

Facebook should put the brakes on plans to roll out an encrypted messaging service, officials from the White House, the U.K. and Australia urge. “Security enhancements to the virtual world should not ...

Mobile access platform startup Hypori Inc. today announced the launch of Hypori Secure Messaging, a new service that gives government agencies and enterprises the ability to communicate and ...

The Trump administration is pressuring the tech industry to give law enforcement a way to access encrypted communications. Super secure, end-to-end encryption has been spreading into everyday online ...

Government departments in Sweden are considering deploying “open network” encrypted messaging services as an alternative to proprietary collaboration tools. Some 40 of Sweden’s government agencies are ...

Social network X said on Thursday that it is pausing its encrypted DMs feature as it works to make some improvements. In a post on X, the company’s engineering account said users will be able to ...

Requirements for agencies to maintain internal communications under the Federal Records Act have come to the forefront of staff discussions in the days following bombshell reporting from The ...