Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Thursday, December 7th,

2023 I'm Brian McCullough today. Meta has kept a longstanding promise to

encrypt messenger by default. Apple is coming clean about the whole

notifications spying thing. A. M. D. answer to invidia. We now know when the next

major version of Windows is coming and surprise. It's got AI all over it and Apple releases its first little

AI hint. Here's what you miss today in the world of Tech.

Meta has rolled out end to end encryption to messenger by default for one-on-one

chats and calls, thereby fulfilling a long term promise.

End to end encryption for group chats remains opt-in,

but hey, they finally shipped, quoting the verge.

Incripted chats were first introduced as an opt-in feature in Messenger in 2016, but after a long wind-up,

end-to-end encrypted messages and calls for conversations between two people will now be the

standard going forward. This has taken years to deliver because we've taken

our time to get this right. Laura Donna Kresson, VP of Messengers, said in a

statement shared with The Verge. Our engineers, cryptographers, designers,

policy experts, and product managers have worked tirelessly

to rebuild messenger features from the ground up."

According to Kresson, you won't sacrifice messenger features when using encrypted chats, so

you'll still be able to use things like

themes and custom reactions. However, Kresson notes that it may take some time for

all messenger chats to switch over to default encryption.

Well, this is a good step.

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