Q: What’s the difference between Signal and WhatsApp, and should I switch? A: Until recent news involving the Signal app, it was a relatively unknown messaging app compared to WhatsApp to many ...

The messaging app Signal made news in March after a handful of White House officials, including Vice President JD Vance, used the app to communicate with each other (and, inadvertently, a journalist) ...

Still, when cities go dark, WhatsApp, Signal, and previously, Skype, have served as technological life rafts that keep aid ...

You probably use text message, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, or even Instagram to chat with others. And while those messaging apps work fine, some still seek out alternatives that lean hard into a ...

There’s real tension between offering an easy way to offer this interoperability to third parties whilst at the same time preserving the WhatsApp privacy, security, and integrity bar,” says Dick ...

A popular messaging app called Signal was recently the preferred communications platform for top officials in the Trump administration to discuss secret war plans. But the use of the app, widely ...

According to reports in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, Trump and his allies heavily favor the Signal app. In fact, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency coordinates its ...

After ‘Signalgate,’ the encrypted-communication app is rocketing up the app charts, even as the Trump administration attempts to shift blame. Is that a good thing for Signal? There are some potential ...

Signal founder Moxie Marlinspike joked that “Signalgate” is one of the many reasons to use the app. Steve Jennings/Getty Images for TechCrunch Last week’s revelations about a group chat among top ...

A magazine journalist's account of being added to a group chat of U.S. national security officials coordinating plans for airstrikes has raised questions about how highly sensitive information is ...