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Meta has unveiled Chat Lock within WhatsApp, a feature that allows users to keep sensitive and intimate conversations safe from prying eyes. By tapping on a one-to-one or group conversation, users can easily enable Chat Lock and choose between password or biometric authentication options.
Chat Lock will create a new folder that can be locked with a password or biometric methods like a fingerprint. "Locking a chat takes that thread out of your inbox and puts it behind its own folder that can only be accessed with your device's password or biometric, like a fingerprint," WhatsApp said today.
European police arrested three people in Belgrade described as "The biggest" drug lords in the Balkans in what cops are chalking up to another win in dismantling Sky ECC's encrypted messaging app last year. Sky ECC was a subscription-based, end-to-end encrypted messaging app made by Sky Global and bundled on Google, Apple, Nokia, and BlackBerry handsets stripped of their GPS units, cameras, and microphones - the idea being that you could chat via text with other users without fear of being snooped on by the cops and others.
Slovak cybersecurity firm ESET is tracking the series of attacks against Southeast Asian gambling companies under the name Operation ChattyGoblin. "These attacks use a specific tactic: targeting the victim companies' support agents via chat applications - in particular, the Comm100 and LiveHelp100 apps," ESET said in a report shared with The Hacker News.
Not only were some ChatGPT users able to see what other users have been using the AI chatbot for, but limited personal and billing information ended up getting revealed, as well.ChatGPT suffered an outage on March 20 and then problems with making conversation history accessible to users.
On Tuesday a bipartisan group of a dozen US senators introduced a bill to authorize the Commerce Department to ban information and communications technology products and services deemed threats to national security. White House national security advisor Jake Sullivan issued a statement endorsing the legislation.
A secret Bing Chat 'Celebrity' mode allows users to instruct the AI to impersonate celebrities, answering questions and talking like the person it imitates. Microsoft is constantly testing new, hidden features in Bing Chat that allow you to turn it into different chat modes, such as gaming, personal assistant, or a friend who can help you with your problems.
Europe's proposed "Chat Control" legislation to automatically scan chat, email, and instant message communications for child sexual exploitation material ran up against broad resistance at a meeting of the German Parliament's Digital Affairs Committee on Wednesday. Chat Control 2.0 would make content scanning mandatory, even for encrypted communications - which would mean either content scanning prior to encryption or encryption keys managed by the service provider instead of the end user.
Microsoft announced today that it's integrating the new AI-powered Bing Chat into the Windows 11 search box with the latest Windows feature update. "Today, we take the next major step forward and combine the incredible breadth and ease of use of the Windows PC with the amazing power of the new AI-enhanced Bing to provide hundreds of millions of Windows 11 users the next era of computing," said Microsoft EVP & Chief Product Officer Panos Panay on Tuesday.
Microsoft will start testing Bing Chat tones, enabling users to switch between receiving answers that are either more creative or more focused on their queries. We are "Going to begin testing an additional option that lets you choose the tone of the Chat from more Precise - which will focus on shorter, more search focused answers - to Balanced, to more Creative - which gives you longer and more chatty answers," the Bing Team said.