Fri. 03/14 – E2EE For All!
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🗓️ 14 March 2025
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Summary
The new RCS messaging standard makes encryption universal, and even Apple is getting on the bandwagon. OpenAI calls for a US ban of DeepSeek. Is Apple about to turn your AirPods into the Universal Translator from Star Trek? And, of course, The Weekend Longreads Suggestions.
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Links:
- Apple will soon support encrypted RCS messaging with Android users (The Verge)
- OpenAI calls DeepSeek ‘state-controlled,’ calls for bans on ‘PRC-produced’ models (TechCrunch)
- Apple Plans AirPods Feature That Can Live-Translate Conversations (Bloomberg)
- Gemini can now personalize its answers based on your search history (The Verge)
- Sony’s new RGB backlight tech absolutely smokes regular Mini LED TVs (The Verge)
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- ‘Ne Zha 2’s $2B+ Box Office Run: How It Happened And What Does Blockbuster Behemoth Mean For China & Hollywood Ahead (Deadline)
- The End Of Children (The New Yorker)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the TechMeme right home for Friday, March 14th, 2025. I'm Brian McCullough today. The new RCS messaging |
| 0:10.4 | standard makes encryption universal, and even Apple is getting on the bandwagon. OpenAI calls for a U.S. |
| 0:16.0 | ban of DeepSeek. Is Apple about to turn your AirPods into the Universal Translator from Star Trek, |
| 0:22.3 | and of course, the week on Longreads suggestions. Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. |
| 0:32.8 | The GSM has announced the new RCS standard supports interoperable end-to-end encryption between platforms, |
| 0:40.8 | and Apple says it will add support for this standard in a future update. |
| 0:45.6 | Quoting the Verge, iPhone and Android users will be able to exchange end-to-end encrypted E2E |
| 0:51.2 | RCS messages in the near future, thanks to newly updated RCS specifications. |
| 0:56.3 | The GSM Association said it had started working to enable E2E-E on messages sent between |
| 1:01.6 | Android and iPhone and September last year. |
| 1:03.9 | E2E is a privacy and security feature that prevents third parties such as messaging providers |
| 1:08.7 | or cell carriers from viewing the content of your texts. |
| 1:12.1 | The GSM says the new RCS standard was developed in collaboration with mobile operators, |
| 1:16.8 | device manufacturers, and technology providers, including Apple. |
| 1:20.0 | Apple introduced RCS support to iPhones as part of an iOS 18 update in September. |
| 1:25.4 | While Apple's proprietary iMessage system already supported E2E, |
| 1:29.9 | this wasn't extended to RCS messaging because the previous RCS standard didn't provide cross-platform support. |
| 1:36.2 | Google Messages also enabled E2E by default for RCS texts, but only conversations between |
| 1:41.6 | Google Messages users were E2EE and not those exchanged with |
| 1:45.8 | iMessage users or users of other RCS clients on Android, end quote. |
| 1:50.7 | And quoting Android Authority. |
| 1:52.3 | Note that Android-Android conversations don't support E2E by default either unless both |
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