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

The move reflects a push for newer features, stronger security, better performance.

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

X Hit by Fresh Outage as Reports Top 25,000

WhatsApp Web Is Getting Chat Themes With 49 Colors, Leak Suggests

WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Experience Midday Service Disruptions

Google Lets Gmail Users Change Their @gmail.com Username in U.S. Rollout

India Delays SIM-Binding to December 2026, Moves to Risk-Based Web Logouts

WhatsApp Adds In-Chat Tools to Delete Large Files Without Erasing Conversations

Apple Releases iOS 26.4 With New Unicode 17.0 Emoji for iPhone

Global Outage Briefly Knocks X Offline

Twitter at 20: From 'Twttr' Experiment to X and a Contested Legacy

Kagi’s ‘LinkedIn Speak’ Translator Goes Viral

Garmin Launches Official WhatsApp App for Select Smartwatches

X Suffers Brief Global Outage, Disrupting Timelines and Logins

Russia Fines Telegram 35 Million Roubles Over Banned Content

Moscow Mobile Internet Partially Restored Under Government Whitelist