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Israeli spyware firm NSO to pay WhatsApp $168 mn in damages, rules court

A US court has ordered NSO to pay Meta $168 million for exploiting a WhatsApp bug used to surveil journalists, dissidents and political targets

Tech Wrap May 6: Razr 60 Ultra launch, Perplexity Comet browser, WhatsApp

Motorola to launch Razr 60 Ultra in India. Perplexity to introduce Comet. WhatsApp to get AI generated chat wallpaper

Soon, WhatsApp will allow Meta AI to generate chat wallpapers: Details here

WhatsApp's AI-powered feature, powered by Meta AI, to offer personalised, text-prompt-based wallpapers generation for chats in upcoming update

Perplexity AI WhatsApp bot returns online: Here is why it was taken down

Perplexity AI bot on Whatsapp is back online after it was taken offline by the US-based maker following a sudden and significant increase in user activity

WhatsApp's AI requests to be processed on cloud using private compute: Meta

Meta has introduced a cloud-based confidential computing system for WhatsApp, similar to Apple's Private Cloud Compute, to ensure user privacy during AI task processing

Perplexity AI chatbot comes to WhatsApp: What it can do and how to use it

Perplexity has issued a contact number that users can save and use to converse with the AI chatbot on WhatsApp, just like with any other contact

Soon, WhatsApp will allow voice and video calls from web client: Details

Reportedly, the next calling update for WhatsApp web will allow users access all calling features without requiring desktop or mobile app

Tech Wrap April 24: ASUS's Vivobook, Sennheiser HD 505, WhatsApp's feature

ASUS Vivobook with Intel chips launched. Sennheiser wired headphones. WhatsApp announces privacy feature. Ray-Ban Meta Glasses to debut in India.

WhatsApp announces advanced chat privacy feature: What is it, how it works

In a bid to enhance security with regard to individual and group chats, WhatsApp has introduced an additional layer of privacy, preventing users from exporting chats and auto-downloading media

'Facebook is no longer the culture', says Zuckerberg on fading relevance

In internal emails revealed in court, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg admits Facebook's cultural relevance is slipping, calling its friend-based model outdated and less engaging

Meta blocks Apple Intelligence on WhatsApp, Instagram to boost in-house AI

Apple Intelligence-powered Writing Tools are inaccessible on Meta apps like WhatsApp and Instagram, while they remain functional in other third-party apps such as X and Reddit

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wraps up testimony in FTC antitrust trial case

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg emphasised in federal court on Wednesday that he bought Instagram and WhatsApp because he saw value in the companies not to take out competitors, as the Federal Trade Commission alleges in a historic antitrust trial. Zuckerberg took the stand for the third day in the trial, wrapping up his testimony as the first witness Wednesday afternoon. He took questions from Meta attorney Mark Hansen, who has argued that his client hardly has a monopoly in social media, as the FTC claims, and still faces stiff global competition. Hansen focused some of his questioning on emails sent by Zuckerberg and his associates that the FTC cited in earlier testimony to illustrate the Facebook founder's alarm over the growth of Instagram and his sense that he needed to neutralise its threat. Zuckerberg said he's very focused on inventing new things, and understanding what other people are creating is a big part of the process. At any given point in his company's history, he said, .

Mark Zuckerberg mulled Instagram spin-off in 2018 amid antitrust concerns

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg once considered separating Instagram from its parent company due to worries about antitrust litigation, according to an email shown Tuesday on the second day of an antitrust trial alleging Meta illegally monopolised the social media market. In the 2018 email, Zuckerberg wrote that he was beginning to wonder if spinning Instagram out would be the only way to accomplish important goals, as big-tech companies grow. He also noted there is a non-trivial chance Meta could be forced to spin out Instagram and perhaps WhatsApp in five to 10 years anyway. He wrote that while most companies resist breakups, the corporate history is that most companies actually perform better after they've been split up. Asked Tuesday by attorney Daniel Matheson, who is leading the antitrust case for the Federal Trade Commission, which incidence in corporate history he had in mind, Zuckerberg responded: I'm not sure what I had in mind then. Zuckerberg, who was the first witness, testif

Meta's biggest antitrust trial could force Zuckerberg to sell Instagram

The FTC claims that Meta bought Instagram and WhatsApp to crush competition and establish an illegal monopoly in the social media market

WhatsApp users on Windows PCs advised caution following Cert-In warning

Cert-In stated that the vulnerability in WhatsApp for Windows PC could be exploited by bad actors that may enable them to run harmful code on the victim's device, potentially compromising the system

WhatsApp faces massive outage as users report issues in sending messages

Following the outage, many even shared memes as an expression of anger and to confirm if the message app was actually down

RBI launches verified WhatsApp channel to spread financial awareness

'Initiative will ensure that vital information reaches people in a simple, direct, and effective manner,' says central bank

Soon, WhatsApp will prevent exporting chats, saving media automatically

Reportedly, the next safety and privacy focus update for WhatsApp will help users safeguard private conversations and prevent unauthorised data transfers

WhatsApp tests new privacy features for voice, video call: Check details

Reportedly, WhatsApp is testing mute audio and disable video options for voice and video call functions. Moreover, it is evaluating more emoji reactions for enhanced calling experience

Meta releases open-weight Llama 4 AI models to rival DeepSeek, Google Gemma

Llama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick are Meta's first open-weight AI models that are natively multimodal and built on a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture