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2024-10-01
Financial Times

An interview with WhatsApp Product Director Alice Newton-Rex on end-to-end encryption, spotting misinformation, the UK's Online Safety Act, Telegram, and more

The messaging platform's director of product discusses privacy issues, AI and new features for the app's 2bn users X: @cristinacriddle , @gateklons , @aservais1 , and @1br0wn X: Cristina Criddle / @cr...

2024-07-14
TechCrunch 61 related

AT&T says it will begin notifying consumers about a data breach where cybercriminals stole phone records of “nearly all” of its cellular and landline customers

Item 1.05 Material Cybersecurity Incidents.  On April 19, 2024, AT&T Inc. … AT&T : Unlawful access of customer data AT&T : AT&T Addresses Illegal Download of Customer Data Lily Hay Newman / Wired : Th...

2024-07-13
TechCrunch 91 related

AT&T says it will begin notifying consumers about a data breach where cybercriminals stole phone records of “nearly all” of its cellular and landline customers

Item 1.05 Material Cybersecurity Incidents.  On April 19, 2024, AT&T Inc. … AT&T : AT&T Addresses Illegal Download of Customer Data CNN : Nearly all AT&T cell customers' call and text records exposed ...

2024-01-27
New York Times 6 related

Some Beeper users lost access to iMessage on their Mac and were told by Apple that the company had revoked access due to irregular activity

2024-01-26
New York Times

Some Beeper users lost access to iMessage on their Mac and were told by Apple access was revoked due to irregular activity; Beeper: ~3.5K users reported outages

Beeper Mini customers were using their Mac computers to connect to iPhone messaging on their Android phones. Mastodon: @lcruggeri@mastodon.uno and @digfish@masto.pt Mastodon: Luca Ruggeri / @lcruggeri...

2023-12-30
Daring Fireball 3 related

Apple blocking Beeper Mini, not a service unto itself but an unauthorized client for a proprietary platform that costs a lot to run, is not anticompetitive

what a shame!  I swear, these companies — Meta, Spotify, and Epic come to mind — are the whiniest bastards ever.  In a hypothetical situation where Meta made its own phone and Apple wanted to create a...

2023-12-29
Daring Fireball

Apple blocking Beeper Mini, not a service unto itself but an unauthorized client for a proprietary platform that costs a lot to run, is not anticompetitive

There's a lot to catch up on since last I wrote about Beeper.  Long story short, they've been playing — and no surprise, losing — the cat-and-mouse game with Apple. Threads: @eshumarneedi , @lscottspe...

2023-12-12
9to5Google 30 related

Beeper says “Beeper Mini is back” but now requires users to log in with their Apple ID, as phone number registration doesn't work; Beeper makes the service free

Bug fixes and other improvements  —  We've created an updated version … Anurag Singh / Dexerto : Android iMessage app releases new update to sidestep Apple block Alexander Maxham / Android Headlines :...

2023-12-10
The Verge 28 related

After Beeper Mini's recent outage, Apple says it took steps “to protect our users by blocking techniques that exploit fake credentials” to gain iMessage access

A few days after the team at Beeper proudly announced a way for users to send blue-bubble iMessages directly …

2023-12-09
TechCrunch 30 related

As Beeper Mini experiences an outage, Beeper CEO Eric Migicovsky says that “all data indicates” Apple found a way to cut off the app's ability to function

Was it too good to be true?  Beeper, the startup that reverse-engineered iMessage to bring blue bubble texts to Android users …

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iMessage has appeared in 102 Techmeme articles since January 2015. The biggest stories include What to expect from WWDC 2021: iOS 15 with updated notifications and iMessage, revamp of... and Apple plans to adopt the GSM's RCS messaging standard by releasing a software update.... Frequently covered alongside Apple, iPhone, Android, WhatsApp, and Facebook.

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2024Q4safety +100pts; consumer +17pts
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