WhatsApp has announced that it will implement parental controls for minors under 14 years of age who use this application. According to Meta, the owner of WhatsApp, with this step families will be able to configure the application so that their children can only call and send messages through the application. Among the functions they will not be able to access are deleting messages once sent, accessing statuses or artificial intelligence.

Finally, the president of the People's Party (PP), Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has handed over to the judge investigating the DANA storm his messages from Mazón during the critical hours of the catastrophe. It's worth remembering that Feijóo had only previously submitted the messages of the former Valencian president, but not his own, and that he did so just hours before Christmas Eve. In this new batch of messages, it's clear that the PP leader was, from the very beginning of the crisis, uneasy and worried about the political consequences. This is the only way to explain why, at 8:26 p.m., after a perfunctory message of support half an hour earlier, he wrote from Mazón: "Keep your spirits up. Lead like you led with the fire." And later he repeatedly sent instructions and advice on how to manage the crisis to achieve communication success: "Take the lead in communication. It's key. The mayors, provincial councils, coordinate with the people, and you keep them informed," he told him.

The Commercial Court No. 15 of Madrid has ordered Meta to pay €479 million to 87 Spanish digital newspaper publishers and news agencies belonging to the AMI (Association of Information Media), including ARA. The ruling states that Mark Zuckerberg's multinational company gained a competitive advantage by including advertising on its Facebook and Instagram social networks using users' personal data protected by the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The decision responds to a lawsuit filed by the national digital press association, which argued that the improper use of users' protected personal data gave Meta an unfair advantage. The court ruled in favor of the association and ordered Meta to pay a multimillion-euro fine for unfair competition.

The first message arrived on a Sunday morning at 8:04 a.m. IAIA Rosa: "Put on a cardigan, it's getting chilly!"

While citizens are still waiting for precise explanations about the causes of the blackout, the Congress of Deputies experienced a shameful government oversight session this Wednesday. The People's Party (PP), obsessed with recovering the stifling atmosphere of the end of Felipe González's administration, brandished the WhatsApp messages between Pedro Sánchez and José Luis Ábalos that it has been publishing these days. The World as if they were a summary piece of evidence, when in reality they are pure gossip. No, the messages do not prove any malpractice or corruption in the Spanish government's bailout of Air Europa. This is a testament to how destructive the Ábalos case could be for the PSOE.

Feijóo concluded the announcement of the party congress he chairs bringing forward to July with a joke: "Now we'll move from the Pope's conclave to the PP Conclave." It's an anecdote, but since there will be people who are paid to write it, and people who will look at it twice before making him say it, it's indicative of the extent to which they think that in a society with brains softened by television and screens, you'll only be heard if you tell bad jokes. Or perhaps they think that's how they'll come across on comedy shows and in articles by columnists who are too vague, but I find it surprising to expose a presidential candidate who no longer has the reputation of being the funniest person at the party (far behind Rajoy) to a pun that not even the ChatGPT robot would have suggested.

For the past few days, some WhatsApp users have been experiencing a blue circle appearing in three different places within the app: in the search bar, as a floating button in the lower right corner, and in a chat window. Meta's artificial intelligence, a ChatGPT-like assistant. While it offers several useful services, not everyone wants Meta AI in the messaging app. We offer a guide on how to manage and minimize it.

The Spanish Supreme Court has ordered Meta Platforms and Google to preserve and provide the WhatsApp messages of the State Attorney General, Álvaro García Ortiz, as part of an investigation into the disclosure of secrets related to the case of Isabel Díaz Ayuso's partner. Both companies have confirmed that they keep the prosecutor's messages and emails, even if he has deleted them from his phone.

After months with its own artificial intelligence on Elon Musk's social network, X, Mark Zuckerberg has also announced that he will incorporate this technology into WhatsApp. Unlike Trump's advisor, the Facebook founder has chosen to name his own AI with the same name as his company: Meta. The tool has been operating in the United States for two years, but now a statement from WhatsApp has confirmed that Meta AI will also be arriving in Europe soon and will be available in six European languages.

WhatsApp has announced a new update of its compatibility requirements on May 5th, the first since three years ago. The change will require users to upgrade their mobile phones if they want to continue using the instant messaging app. The phones affected by the company's standards update are all running on iOS, i.e., Apple's operating system.

The social network WhatsApp has fallen worldwide this afternoon. According to reports reported by the platform Downdetector, thousands of people have been affected by the outage. However, other users are still using it. As indicated by the platform, the service would have started to be affected from 4 pm and has remained down for just over an hour. From 5 pm, Downdetector has begun to reduce the number of cases.

Social networks, chats, video and music platforms... and lately AI. Generally, users refer to these as applications because they are mostly used from their mobile phones. But in reality we should call them app services, because they consist of two components: the application with which we consult and interact, and the back-office that does the real work, residing on servers in some remote data center. The providers of these services promote their use through their own applications - often for various devices and operating systems - so that they allow them to capture more information about users. But in many cases, although they do not tell us, this two-component application architecture opens the door to using them with third-party applications, which improve the digital consumer experience and respect privacy more. We review some examples below.