Announced this week, the partnership sees Microsoft follow rivals including Google and Facebook in adopting Signal’s protocol. Originally developed for its own Signal messaging app, the protocol ...

Senior government officials mistakenly invited the editor in chief of the Atlantic to a group chat on the messaging app Signal, where the focus of conversation was U.S. airstrikes against rebel groups ...

Almost immediately after news broke that US government officials had inadvertently shared war plans with a journalist last week, misinformation began to fly. Much of it had to do with the inner ...

Elon Musk's long-promised launch of encrypted direct messages on Twitter has arrived. Like most attempts to add end-to-end encryption to a massive existing platform—never an easy proposition—there's ...

Meta today is offering more details about how it plans to make its messaging apps, WhatsApp and Messenger, interoperable with third-party messaging services, as required by the new EU law, the Digital ...

While the tech world has been iPad and Apple ad obsessed this week, a surprise battle has quietly broken out between some of the world’s leading messaging platforms, stoking fear, uncertainty and ...

In context: March 6 was the deadline for the biggest tech companies in the world to comply with the provisions of the European Union's Digital Markets Act (DMA). The six so-called "gatekeepers," ...