| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-30 |
With the new feature, sharing your mobile number will no longer be necessary every time to connect with people on WhatsApp.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-30 |
WhatsApp's new feature is called the Username feature.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-30 |
WhatsApp's new username feature will not change core rules — a mobile number remains mandatory for every account, there will be no public username directory, and an optional four-digit username key can restrict who contacts you.
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| Chitra Tripathi |
2026-06-30 |
With the WhatsApp username feature, your phone number will remain private and the other person will only see your username.
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| Chitra Tripathi |
2026-06-30 |
WhatsApp has launched a username feature allowing any user to choose a username of their liking.
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| Chitra Tripathi |
2026-06-29 |
India's cyber security agency CERT-In has issued an advisory that hackers are targeting WhatsApp Web users by hacking a contact's number and sending a VBS file from it; opening the file gives hackers access to all the data on the device.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-29 |
After this news broke, 'hair wig' and 'hair transplant' became top searches on Google Trends in India, with search interest reaching 100 on Google on 23 June, the day the news came out.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-16 |
Criminals prefer Telegram over WhatsApp because a Telegram group can have 2 lakh members versus WhatsApp's 1,024, allows 4 GB file sharing versus 2 GB, permits accounts on virtual numbers across multiple devices, and is harder for police to track.
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| Rajat Sharma |
2026-06-12 |
IIT Kanpur has launched a four-year cyber security course with admission through a hackathon — two years of theory followed by two years working with a national security agency — and has hired the student who hacked CBSE's on-screen marking portal at its cyber security innovation centre.
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| Rajat Sharma |
2026-06-11 |
Elon Musk will launch the world's biggest IPO, raising 1.77 trillion through the SpaceX IPO.
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