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World Emoji Day Highlights Award Winners, Research on Cross‑Platform Misreading and an Argentine Sifón Campaign

New findings about vendor design differences point to real effects on how people read emoji and raise practical risks for education and messaging.

Unicode Approves Nine New Emoji Including a Whole Pickle

Google Rolls Out Gmail Live Beta for Android and iOS

Experts Say Bans Won't Fix Risks in Children's Online Lives

WhatsApp Is Testing an Android Home‑Screen Widget for Voice Messages

Facebook and Instagram Hit by Global Outage

YouTube Reintroduces In‑App Messaging With Invite‑Only Chats

WhatsApp Chain Letter Falsely Claims Meta AI Will Read Private Chats

Cross-Border Scams Drain Tens to Hundreds of Thousands from Seniors in Tyrol and Mittelsachsen

SMS Use in Germany Plummets to 2.9 Billion

WhatsApp Web Glitch Redirects Users to Facebook Login

DHL Says Standalone Daily Letter Delivery No Longer Viable in Germany

Microsoft Reverses Cloud Update After iPhone Users Lose Outlook Access

WhatsApp to End Support for Android 5.x on Sept. 8, 2026

Chrome Extension 'Sinceerly' Messes Up AI Text to Make It Sound Human

X Releases XChat on iOS With Encrypted Messaging and No-Ads Pitch

Harvard Student’s ‘Sinceerly’ Chrome Add-On Makes Emails Imperfect to Feel Human

Instagram Tests Instants, a Standalone App for One-Tap Disappearing Photos

Meta Begins Rolling Out WhatsApp Plus Paid Tier Focused on Personalization

OpenAI Confirms Partial ChatGPT and Codex Outage as Services Recover