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Tweet It has been discovered that a specially crafted message containing invisible formatting characters can cause WhatsApp to become unresponsive or even take down the operating system on mobile devices. Read more… Neowin

Tweet Microsoft is furthering its digital assistant’s integration on Android by testing a new Cortana feature that will enable users to have text messages read out via connected Bluetooth devices. Read more… Neowin

Tweet In a mind-boggling series of tweets, T-Mobile Austria’s social media managers have confirmed that it stores customer passwords as plain text because its security is “amazingly good”. Read more… Neowin

Tweet Bardi Golriz’s Appy Text is a well-designed minimal writing app that supports markdown. It acts as a solid example of how functional UWP apps can be despite their current limitations. Read more… Neowin

Tweet Security researchers are always trying to find ways to break devices or get into their code. If a problem is found, they alert the manufacturer to it can be fixed quietly. Others can be more vocal. Read more… Neowin