Leverice is a team messenger app that’s taking aim at information overload

Meet Leverice: A team messenger and collaboration platform that’s aiming to compete with b2b giants like Slack by tackling an issue that continues to plague real-time messaging — namely, ‘always-on’ information overload. This means these tools can feel like they’re eating into productivity as much as aiding it. Or else leave users stressed and overwhelmed […] Continue reading Leverice is a team messenger app that’s taking aim at information overload

Facebook Messenger may ban mass-forwarding of messages

Facebook has done this before: it did it with WhatsApp, following an outbreak of lynchings sparked by viral social media hoaxes. Continue reading Facebook Messenger may ban mass-forwarding of messages

Report calls for web pre-screening to end UK’s child abuse ‘explosion’

The IICSA report cited “unprecedented levels of depravity” and said that encryption is getting in the way of current screening. Continue reading Report calls for web pre-screening to end UK’s child abuse ‘explosion’

Facebook Launches Rebuilt Messenger App to Be Smaller and Faster

Facebook’s rewritten Messenger app reduces the codebase by 84%, allowing the app to be smaller, faster, and simpler to use as Facebook looks to unify its messaging services.
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Facebook encrypted messaging will ‘create hiding places for child abuse’

Child safety groups penned an open letter to Facebook, urging a delay on encrypted messaging until sufficient safeguards are in place. Continue reading Facebook encrypted messaging will ‘create hiding places for child abuse’

Microsoft Teams gets Yammer integration, secure private channels, and more

You’re forgiven if you thought Yammer, Microsoft’s proto-Slack, not quite realtime, chat application was dead. But it’s actually still alive (and well) — and still serves a purpose as a slower-moving social network-like channel for company- and team-wide announcements. Today, Microsoft announced that, among other updates, it will offer a Yammer integration in Teams, its […] Continue reading Microsoft Teams gets Yammer integration, secure private channels, and more