Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about security, surveillance and privacy. Updated on Dec. 3 with advice on other encrypted messaging platforms ...

Researchers from MIT, Northeastern University, and Meta recently released a paper suggesting that large language models (LLMs) similar to those that power ChatGPT may sometimes prioritize sentence ...

After work got underway earlier this year, Google Messages is beginning to roll out @mentions in group chats. In group chats, Google Messages will let you @mention someone to “get their attention.” ...

Activating iMessage on an iPhone with a phone number has been a problem for some users. If it’s a problem you’ve been having, here’s how to fix it. Apple iPhone 17 Pro and others are hit by iMessage ...

Apple’s Messages app gets a handful of solid upgrades in iOS 26. Messages gains the new ‘Liquid Glass’ redesign that impacts the app, of course. Buttons have been updated, UI elements have a fresh ...

Google Messages now lets you delete a sent text message. A deleted message disappears for the other person immediately. The feature is available now for almost all Android users. Get more in-depth ...

Google has started rolling out the Material 3 Expressive redesign for its Messages app on the beta channel. The beta release brings design changes for the app’s homepage, chat interface, settings menu ...

June 2 (UPI) --An 11-year-old Michigan girl vacationing with her family in Florida found a message in a bottle that had purportedly been thrown into the ocean 8 years earlier in Hawaii. Hoqwell, Mich.

A syntax error results in an incorrect error message that blames an unrelated macro earlier in the file. The error looks like this: fifo/rtl/internal/br_fifo_pop_ctrl ...

Mike Sorrentino is a Senior Editor for Mobile, covering phones, texting apps and smartwatches -- obsessing about how we can make the most of them. Mike also keeps an eye out on the movie and toy ...

An archaeologist was shocked when he discovered a message in a bottle from over 150 years ago when digging at an old Viking graveyard. Norwegian historian Jacob Bredesen captured the moment the bottle ...

To guard against scams it’s helpful to look for “red flags,” things in an unsolicited text or email that suggest the message is from a scammer. Three simple words also provide a red flag. If you ...