Instagram is the latest service to make efforts toward fighting online abuse, rolling out text filters to dismiss trolls. The question is, will it succeed? These filters are pretty straightforward and ...

Apple's new spam text filtering feature could end up being a multimillion-dollar headache for political campaigns. iOS 26 includes a new feature that allows users to filter text messages from ...

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The average person receives an awful lot of spam and scams by phone, text, and email. Apple and ISPs offer anti-spam tools for email (with varying degrees of effectiveness), and cell carriers and ...

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