Answering a question on iMessage-RCS interoperability at Code, Tim Cook suggests “[buying] your mom an iPhone” to end green bubbles (The Verge)

Nilay Patel / The Verge:
An interview with Signal president Meredith Whittaker on competition, government pressure to break encryption, what it’s like to hire a new CEO, and more  —  Signal messages are more private than iMessage and WhatsApp.  Here’s how.  —  Meredith Whittaker is the president of Signal …

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Google says it is testing end-to-end encryption for RCS-based group chats on its Messages app  —  Google said today it is testing end-to-end encryption for RCS-based group chats on its Messages app — RCS stands for Rich Communication Services.  The company noted that it will be rolling …

Kevin Collier / NBC News:
Seesaw, a messaging app for parents and teachers with 10M users, says it suffered a credential stuffing attack, after users said they received an explicit image  —  A messaging app for parents and teachers said Wednesday that it was hacked after some parents said they had received messages …

Juli Clover / MacRumors:
Elon Musk says he met with Tim Cook at Apple’s HQ on Wednesday, and that Cook was clear that Apple “never considered” removing Twitter from the App Store  —  Twitter CEO Elon Musk today met with Apple CEO Tim Cook at the Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California, according to a tweet shared by Musk this afternoon.

Allison Johnson / The Verge:
iPhone 14 Plus review: multiday battery, big bright screen, and light, but hard to use one-handed, no ProMotion, and adopting eSIM will be painful for some  —  Excellent battery life and a large display make the 14 Plus upgrade-worthy … This is the new iPhone that most people want.

Emma Roth / The Verge:
Wickr Me, the free encrypted messaging app acquired by AWS in 2021, will shut down on December 31, 2023 and stop accepting new users at the end of 2022  —  Wickr Me, the free encrypted messaging app owned by Amazon Web Services, is shutting down on December 31st, 2023.