Losing a chat on WhatsApp can feel bad, more so when the note had value or care. The good news is that lost chats can often come back. This guide shows how, in clear steps, with no rush and no tricks.

Unwanted text messages could soon put a little extra cash in the pockets of users across the country. A settlement reached in December 2025 calls for payments to be made to qualified class members who ...

Ripple effect: Questions about whether WhatsApp's encryption works as Meta describes have taken center stage in a new international lawsuit filed in a US federal court, where plaintiffs allege that ...

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The Seattle Seahawks are one win away from the Super Bowl. All that’s standing in their way is their NFC West rival, the Los Angeles Rams. In both games this season, the two sides played tightly ...

The New York Mets don’t seem eager to overspend in free agency, which is why they’ve yet to make a big splash signing. Moreover, they also appear quiet in the trade market as David Stearns, the team’s ...

Researchers warn of a new WhatsApp “GhostPairing” attack that silently links attacker devices to accounts, enabling message spying without users knowing. Image: Generated via Google’s Nano Banana ...

Every day, WhatsApp handles 100 billion messages and 2 billion calls, the company says. But it has revealed that the 24 hours running up to the new year is always the biggest day of the year. So, it ...

Malicious npm package posing as a WhatsApp Web API library operated for months as a functional dependency while stealing messages and maintaining persistence. Security researchers have uncovered a ...

A malicious package in the Node Package Manager (NPM) registry poses as a legitimate WhatsApp Web API library to steal WhatsApp messages, collect contacts, and gain access to the account. A fork of ...

WhatsApp has announced a bunch of new features right in time for the holiday season, and the most notable addition is something that the company thinks “will make voicemails a thing of the past.” In ...