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"We don't have rules against sharing the name 'Epstein' in direct messages and are investigating why some users are experiencing issues," a spokesman for TikTok's U.S. operation told NPR in a ...

To learn more about our editorial approach, explore The Direct Message methodology. In 2024, a curious phenomenon emerged in marketing data: while 85% of businesses increased their overall marketing ...

Sky News contributor James Bolt discusses the rising popularity of One Nation and how they connect to the everyday Australian with “focused and direct” messaging. “When they do catch up on what’s ...

OpenAI has recently published a detailed architecture description of the Codex App Server, a bidirectional protocol that decouples the Codex coding agent's core logic from its various client surfaces.

Exclusive: Branch of Iranian software company TSIT, which makes Gap Messenger, is registered in Sussex The creators of a messaging app accused of handing user data to the Iranian regime live on a ...

Apple’s Messages app got a bunch of new features in iOS 26, including a ‘Screen Unknown Senders’ option meant to eliminate spam texts. My initial experience with the feature wasn’t great, but tweaking ...

Like other Google apps, Messages for Android A/B tests many features. It can take the RCS/SMS client a rather long time to actually launch new functionality in stable. From various reports, Google ...

Google Messages Screen Effects add a fun touch to everyday chats, but you might not have encountered this cool feature. It’s not well-known, and the animations don’t have to be specifically selected ...