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WhatsApp Adds Usernames to Let Users Hide Phone Numbers

The change aims to limit unsolicited contacts by letting users reserve unique usernames now with an optional PIN to gate first messages.

Microsoft Adds Controls to Move Floating Copilot Button in Office Apps

Google Signals Openness to Ads in Gemini App

Meta Begins Rolling Out WhatsApp Plus Paid Tier Focused on Personalization

Yelp Expands AI Assistant for Answers and Booking

Spartans.com Beta Tops $1 Billion in Bets and $40 Million GGR, Reaching 14th Globally

U.S. Regulators Convene Bank CEOs Over Cyber Risks From Anthropic’s Mythos

Google Rolls Out Gmail Username Changes in the U.S.

Reddit Explores Face ID and Passkeys to Verify Human Users

Google Maps Limits Non-Logged-In Users to Restricted View

Reddit Pivots to AI-First Search as Weekly Users Hit 80 Million

Google Lets Users Change Gmail Addresses as Rollout Expands

BNB Chain Activates Fermi Hard Fork, Cutting Block Times to 0.45 Seconds

Salesforce Relaunches Slackbot as an AI Agent, Now Available to Business+ and Enterprise+ Users

OpenAI Begins Phased Rollout of GPT-5.2 in Three Variants to Paid Users

New RAG Research Reports Adaptive Retrieval Gains, Multimodal Retrieval Edge

Traces of Username Search-and-Call Emerge in WhatsApp Android Beta

Meta Rolls Out WhatsApp Screen-Share Warnings, Tests Messenger AI to Curb Scams Targeting Seniors

Meta to Shut Down Messenger Desktop Apps on Dec. 15, 2025

Google Rolls Out Trusted-Contact Account Recovery and Phone-Number Sign-In