The rush to put out autonomous agents without thinking too hard about the potential downside is entirely consistent with ...

Scammers used a fake Gemini AI chatbot to promote a bogus Google Coin presale, signaling a rise in AI-driven crypto impersonation fraud.

Legitimate emails in Exchange Online are being tagged as spam. A new URL rule is quarantining emails as phishing attempts. Microsoft has made some progress resolving the problem. Those of you who use ...

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.

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 ...

For all our modern obsession with social media and messaging apps, email remains a daily staple for many of us. Modern email providers are pretty good at filtering out unsolicited messages known as ...

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 ...

End-to-end encryption (nicknamed E2EE) has been a major selling point of Meta's WhatsApp messenger since the feature was introduced in 2016. In short, true E2EE ensures that texts, calls, images, and ...

Michelle is Lifehacker's Associate Tech Editor, and has been reviewing games, laptops, phones, and more for over 10 years. She is based in New York City and holds a master's degree from NYU. An ...

Meta’s end-to-end encrypted messaging app is used by billions of people. Here’s how to make sure you’re one of the most locked-down ones out there. Meanwhile, in November, Austrian researchers plugged ...