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WhatsApp — the messaging app with support for end-to-end encryption (E2EE) owned by Meta — will soon add support for cross-platform messaging. Support for third party chats will allow people using a different messaging platform to text users on WhatsApp, and Meta has said that the feature will be opt-in to prevent users from being spammed across services. The company's confirmation of its efforts to enable cross-platform messaging comes ahead of the EU's Digital Markets Act (DMA) deadline of March 6.When the upcoming chat…

Last updated: February 7th, 2024 at 08:35 UTC+01:00 Under the European Union's (EU) Digital Markets Act (DMA), major tech platforms will have to make it easy for users to transfer their personal data from one service to another. Tech companies, which includes Meta (which owns Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, Threads, and WhatsApp), will have to make their services compatible with other brands. WhatsApp is planning to make its app compatible with third-party chat apps, and the company could announce its plans about it…

Screenshot by Lance Whitney/ZDNETSince rolling out early this month, OpenAI's ChatGPT store has attracted thousands of custom GPT chatbots, many with distinctive and useful abilities. Now, you can reference any of those GPTs in a normal chat as a way to tap into their individual skills.In a Monday post on X, aka Twitter, OpenAI announced the launch of the new feature by saying: "You can now bring GPTs into any conversation in ChatGPT -- simply type @ and select the GPT. This allows you to add relevant GPTs with the…

As more employees use instant messaging at work in lieu of email, federal antitrust enforcers issued a warning Friday: Companies under investigation must turn over those records. The Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission announced they are tweaking the language they send to companies under investigation to make clear they are required to preserve and turn over chats from platforms such as Salesforce Inc.'s Slack and ephemeral messaging apps like Meta Platforms Inc.'s WhatsApp and Signal. Failure to preserve…

Associations between user’s demographic attributes and their user experience after chatting with GPT-3 on climate change (A) and on BLM (B). Note: Each plot in a panel represents an aggregated summary for one user demographics (e.g., minority status in opinion) and its performance in the six different linear regression models for six user experience variables (e.g., satisfaction with the chatbot). The bars represent the coefficient values, while the…

In the latest iOS app beta version of WhatsApp, WABetaInfo has spotted an in-development feature called ‘Third-party Chats.’ Meta-owned WhatsApp is working on a chat interoperability feature to comply with new European Union (EU) regulations.In the latest iOS app beta version of WhatsApp, WABetaInfo has spotted an in-development feature called ‘Third-party Chats.’ According to the new regulations outlined in the DMA (Digital Markets Act), WhatsApp has been identified as one of the companies that will be…

Image Source : EDGE Microsoft Edge and Bing users experience over 1.9 billion Copilot Chats in 2023 In the year 2023, users of Microsoft Edge and Bing have collectively participated in over 1.9 billion Copilot chats, which resulted in mirroring the total number of websites that existed on the internet in 2022, as reported by the tech giant. AI-generated images…

If you use ChatGPT a lot, then you’ve probably got a good few conversations open at the moment, and sorting through them might be a bit of a nightmare. Previously, if you wanted to hide a conversation, the only way to do so was to delete it. Thankfully, OpenAI has finally added a way to archive chats in ChatGPT. Here’s how to do it.At the time of writing this article, the ability to archive chats in ChatGPT is only available on iPhone and the ChatGPT web app. However, OpenAI says the feature will come to Android…

The Google Messages app is getting better and better. Google recently announced a bunch of features for the app, and now something new is rolling out. RCS chats in Google Messages are getting a background wallpaper. This will not only spice up the look of your conversations, but will help you set RCS chats apart from regular SMS chats. Do note that there is a reason why used a singular form here, as it’s a ‘wallpaper’, not ‘wallpapers’. RCS chats in Google Messages are getting a background wallpaper At the moment, based…

Do you have an Android phone and wish you could mute certain notifications in your text messages and emails? If you are tired of being bombarded by unwanted alerts, you are not alone.Many people find notifications to be distracting, annoying or even stressful.Fortunately, there is a simple way to silence these messages without leaving the conversation or missing important updates. Here is how you can mute text messages and email notifications on your Android phone.CLICK TO GET KURT’S FREE CYBERGUY NEWSLETTER WITH…