Tag Archives: Messaging

Google’s messaging mess: a timeline

Google’s messaging mess: a timeline

Over the past 15 years, Google has introduced more than a dozen messaging services spanning text, voice, and video calling. This week, the company’s efforts culminated in the general availability of Google Chat, a combination of Slack / Discord-style rooms with more traditional messaging. It’s the sort of announcement that might have been expected to bring some consistency to the company’s muddled messenger messaging, but — as is traditional for Google in this area — there’s… Source link

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50 illuminating questions about Google’s latest messaging service shakeup

50 illuminating questions about Google’s latest messaging service shakeup

Good golly, gang, Google’s done it again. Just when I thought the G-team had made its messaging service strategy as convoluted as humanly possible, Le Googlé has managed to inject even more messy confusion into its suite of messaging products. This, my fellow earthlings, deserves some serious recognition. Achieving levels of perplexity this high is a rare feat, and you’d better believe it ain’t easy. Our latest confounding twist comes courtesy of an announcement… Source link

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Npm Package Steals Sensitive Files Targeting Google Chrome, Brave, Opera, Yandex, Discord Messaging App

Npm Package Steals Sensitive Files Targeting Google Chrome, Brave, Opera, Yandex, Discord Messaging App

Sonatype security researchers found malicious code in an npm package, which is designed to steal sensitive files from Google Chrome, Brave, Opera, Yandex browsers and Discord application. Sonatype is a security company that offers developer security operations (DevSecOps) services, so it also monitors public package repositories. The company said discord.dll has been downloaded for more than 100 times since it was published over five months… Source link

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