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WhatsApp Reportedly Building In‑App Birthday Reminders for Android

Reusing birth‑date data collected for age checks to surface upcoming contact birthdays could raise privacy questions without clear user controls.

WhatsApp Tests Green Dot to Show When Contacts Are Online

Chrome Adds Mobile Autofill for Passports, Licenses and Travel Data

Apple Consolidates Sign In With Apple and Hide My Email on private.icloud.com

Chrome Ends Manifest V2 Support, Disabling Legacy Ad Blockers

Microsoft Ships Workplace Check‑In for Teams to General Availability

WhatsApp Tests Read-Based Disappearing Messages With New Timers

Tencent Halts WeChat Status Tests, Rules Out Read and Visitor Tracking for Good

OpenAI Launches Chronicle for Codex on Mac to Reuse On‑Screen Context

Perplexity Rolls Out ‘Personal Computer’ on Mac to Max Subscribers

Google Rolls Out Hardware-Bound Cookie Protection in Chrome for Windows

Apple Overhauls App Store Connect Analytics With 100+ New Metrics

Google Releases Android 17 Beta 2 With Universal App Bubbles and New Privacy Tools

Microsoft Details Windows Security Shift to Signed-Only Apps and Consent Prompts

Apple Weighs Google Cloud as Siri’s Chatbot Overhaul Proceeds in Two Phases

Google Probes Pixel ‘Take a Message’ Bug That May Leak Users’ Audio to Callers

Google Starts Rolling Out Option to Change Primary Gmail Address Without Losing Data

Apple Maps Drops Flyover City Tours as iOS 26 Rolls Out

German Antitrust Watchdog Tests Apple’s Proposed Changes to App Tracking Transparency

macOS 26.1 Quietly Adds Time Limits and Clear Option for Spotlight Clipboard History