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Meta-owned messaging app offering end-to-end encrypted texting, voice/video calls, and business tools to billions of users worldwide.
Meta's engineers say WhatsApp carried more than 30 million messages per second at the July 19 World Cup final, 1.23x its New Year's Eve peak. Meta says the capacity buffers it pre-provisioned were its most effective lever.
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WhatsApp now lets registered users send a call link that people without an account can open in a desktop browser, in calls of up to 32 people. The host admits each guest, and the limits on what guests can do decide which external calls it suits.
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WhatsApp is letting a limited group of Android beta testers schedule messages from 10 minutes to two weeks ahead. Digital Trends traces the feature to a February 2026 development report, and no stable release date has been confirmed.
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Bessemer and Lightspeed co-led the funding that takes Zenzap, an Israeli workplace-chat startup, to $44 million raised as it leaves stealth. Calcalist reports $33 million of it is the Series A and $11 million a 2022 seed.
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WhatsApp now lets anyone without an account join its voice and video calls from a browser, with no time limit once the host approves. Guests cannot start calls, send messages or add people, so it fits one-off meetings with outsiders.
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WhatsApp is testing scheduled messages in an Android beta, with a delivery window from 10 minutes to two weeks ahead. Recipients cannot tell a message was held, The Next Web reported, citing WaBetaInfo, in a region where several countries regulate after-hours contact.
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Two Dominican nationals were extradited to the US on Sept. 30 to face conspiracy charges over a sextortion scheme aimed at Puerto Rico victims. They had been arrested 42 days earlier, on Aug. 19, and both are presumed innocent.
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UK data regulator the ICO is investigating automated 'add me on WhatsApp' calls after logging more than 3,600 complaints in September, a five-year high. Because some of the recorded messages offer part-time work, job seekers look like the intended targets.
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Apple patched CoreGraphics flaw CVE-2026-86950 in iOS 26.7.1 after a report that it may have been exploited against targeted iPhone users. iPhone fleets still on iOS 26 have the strongest case for forcing that update before the next scheduled patch window.
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LeapXpert and Cisco put screened, archived WhatsApp client chats inside Webex, an app used at about 300,000 organizations. Whether staff actually move client conversations off consumer apps is something only the archive will show.
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Reported losses to criminals who hijack UK email and social media accounts reached 6.3 million pounds in 2025-26, up from 1.2 million, police data shows. The base is small, but fraud that borrows a person's identity gives employers a reason to review how staff log in.
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Meta launched its personal agent Muse on Tuesday for US adults, and in the company's own description the only party who approves a connector is the person holding the account. Tailscale and Plaid are on the list.
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WhatsApp extended its parent-managed controls to teen accounts, letting parents move Meta AI from its 13+ default to a stricter Limited Content mode. The controls are optional, so the tighter limits apply only in families that turn them on.
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Paragon CEO Andrew Boyd says the spyware maker cannot see whom its customers target, and that halting updates leaves their systems ineffective in about 12 hours. Its promise to drop abusive customers therefore waits on outsiders finding the abuse first.
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Paragon CEO Andrew Boyd says the spyware maker can't see who customers target, and withheld updates leave a customer's system ineffective in about 12 hours. Its zero-tolerance misuse policy depends on outside researchers to find abuse before that slow cutoff comes into play.
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Paragon, maker of the Graphite spyware, will go public through a Nasdaq SPAC merger at a $1.25 billion pre-money enterprise value. The price rests on $267 million in revenue, up 29%, earned jointly with REDLattice, a contractor to US defense and government agencies.
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OX Security found 101 npm forks of the Baileys WhatsApp library, downloaded 490,000 times, that add developers' accounts to groups without consent. About a quarter of those downloads came in the last 30 days, so the campaign is still reaching new installs.
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Meta unveiled Ray-Ban Audio, its first smart glasses without a camera, at Connect alongside a third generation of its camera Ray-Bans. It is the one Connect privacy change a venue's device rule can act on, since Private Processing has not reached the glasses yet.
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Meta will put voice-driven scanned avatars into WhatsApp calls from its $799 Ray-Ban Display glasses this fall, ahead of its spring 2027 VR Glasses. The first people to see them will be on ordinary phones, looking at a face where a glasses call used to show the wearer's view.
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Meta's on-device model flags likely scams from non-contacts in a limited beta. It carries no enforcement, no admin visibility, and no view of the vector that works best.
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