From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

A recently engaged Wisconsin woman will spend the next six years in prison after allegedly admitting to kissing an 11-year-old boy in her classroom — and later sending him 35,000 explicit text ...

You know this by now. The threat from malicious text messages has never been worse. Fueled by Chinese organized criminal gangs and AI, this now targets smartphone users on an industrial level, sending ...

Democratic Delegate Stacey Plaskett of the Virgin Islands defended her text messages with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein during a CNN interview Wednesday. In response to backlash and a ...

Hackers on Monday hijacked a mass text messaging service, pushing hundreds of thousands of scam texts to people who subscribe to alerts from New York state, a Catholic charity and a political ...

The U.S. is awash with scam text messages. Officials say it has become a billion-dollar, highly sophisticated business benefiting criminals in China. Your highway toll payment is now past due, one ...

Democrats are largely standing by their nominee for Virginia attorney general after revelations that he once mused about killing a GOP lawmaker — worrying some in the party who want to draw a hard ...

Virginia’s Democratic nominee for attorney general faced bipartisan backlash Friday night after text messages from 2022 surfaced in which he suggested the top Republican in the state House of ...

What happens when a trusted tech brand makes a decision that fundamentally alters how its products are used? For Synology, the answer is unfolding in real-time, as its recent move to eliminate ...

A hobbyist developer building AI language models that speak Victorian-era English “just for fun” got an unexpected history lesson this week when his latest creation mentioned real protests from 1834 ...

Encrypted text messages may finally reach iPhone users with iOS 26. Code in the beta version of iOS 26 reveals strings for RCS encryption. With encryption, texts between iOS and Android will be more ...

When it comes to transcoding video at an operation like what Meta offers, given scale and the complex array of different targets and scenarios, there’s no simple answer to how Meta approaches cloud ...