Have you ever received a message on WhatsApp, only for it to be deleted right after? It turns out that on many Galaxy devices, you can still view the content of the deleted message. The catch: you can't have received more than seven notifications since the message was originally sent.

WhatsApp's message deletion feature, introduced in 2017, allows users to delete sent messages, both from their own chat and the recipient's, within a limited time frame. This option applies to both private chats and group conversations. When a message is completely deleted, it is replaced with the text "This message was deleted" for all participants in the chat.

While this discovery isn't relevant for iPhone users, curious Galaxy users wanting to know what their friend or boss sent before deleting it can find out. The deleted messages will appear as part of the last seven notifications received on the device.

Here's how to do it in 5 simple steps:

1. Go to "Settings" on your Galaxy device.
2. Tap on "Notifications."
3. Tap on "Advanced settings."
4. Select "Notification history."
5. Now, you can scroll down and see the deleted messages in the "Notification history" panel (Make sure the "Notification history" button is blue, indicating that it's enabled).

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Facebook integrated Meta AI into WhatsApp. Meta AI can translate sentences, adapt to different communication styles, generate and edit images based on text descriptions or reference photos, animate previously created images, and provide accurate weather data and recommendations based on the user's location.

To activate Meta AI on WhatsApp, users need to update the app to the latest version and access it by clicking on a blue and purple icon or mentioning "@Meta AI" before making a query or request in group or private chats. No third-party apps or programs are required.

Meta AI currently does not summarize YouTube videos from links or directly. Unlike Google and OpenAI, it does not allow prompt editing once sent.

Meta AI can retrieve information from sources like Wikipedia, offer concise summaries of webpage content, solve mathematical equations, and provide programming assistance. However.

When asked to speak in 'argentino,' Meta AI on WhatsApp responds with Argentinean slang and offers assistance in a friendly manner, without mentioning a specific character or Argentinean dish.

Some users find the AI chat bar labeled "Meta AI" appearing above their chats annoying.

Sources: Clarin, Record, Rosario3, El Comercio, Debinero, Cronica

This article was written in collaboration with Generative AI news company Alchemiq.

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The Whatsapp messaging platform is testing a new feature that will allow users to opt for the messages to be automatically erased for both sender and recipient 24 hours after being sent, the tech site WAbetainfo reported Monday.

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According to the report, the new feature will be an addition to the platform and not replace the existing option of erasing messages after seven days.

Users will be able to select the 24-hour disappearing messages option, the seven-day disappearing messages option, or opt out of the disappearing messages feature entirely. The feature applies to both personal conversations and group chats.

WAbetainfo reported that the feature is under development and will be rolled out for Android, iOS, and desktop users in a future update.

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Distancing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government from the alleged attempts to send malware to the mobile devices of a number of Whatsapp users, Israeli cabinet minister Ze'ev Elkin said that if anyone had done anything "forbidden" they could expect to find themselves in court.

"NSO is a private player using capabilities that Israelis have, thousands of people are in the cyber field, but there is no Israeli government involvement here, everyone understands that, this is not about the state of Israel," Elkin told the local 102.FM Tel Aviv Radio station.

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On Tuesday, WhatsApp sued NSO Group accusing it of helping government spies break into the phones of roughly 1,400 users across four continents in a hacking spree whose targets included diplomats, political dissidents, journalists and senior government officials.

The Facebook-owned software giant alleges that NSO Group built and sold a hacking platform that exploited a flaw in WhatsApp-owned servers to help clients hack into the cellphones of at least 1,400 users between April 29, 2019, and May 10, 2019.

On Thursday Reuters reported that senior government officials in many U.S.-allied countries were targeted earlier this year with hacking software that used WhatsApp to take over users' phones, according to people familiar with the messaging company's investigation.

NSO has denied the allegations "in the strongest possible terms," saying it would fight them "vigorously."

WhatsApp is used by 1.5 billion people monthly and has often touted a high level of security, including end-to-end encrypted messages that cannot be deciphered by WhatsApp or other third parties.

In his radio interview, Elkin said: "I don't see any political fallout from this incident."

He added: "It is true that when people do things that are forbidden – I have no way of determining whether they did indeed do anything forbidden - then the justice system here and in other countries will throw the book at them.

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In a lawsuit filed in federal court in San Francisco, messaging service WhatsApp, which is owned by Facebook Inc (FB.O), accused NSO of facilitating government hacking sprees in 20 countries. Mexico, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain were the only countries identified.

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WhatsApp said in a statement that 100 civil society members had been targeted, and called it "an unmistakable pattern of abuse."

NSO denied the allegations.

"In the strongest possible terms, we dispute today's allegations and will vigorously fight them," NSO said in a statement. "The sole purpose of NSO is to provide technology to licensed government intelligence and law enforcement agencies to help them fight terrorism and serious crime."

WhatsApp said the attack exploited its video calling system in order to send malware to the mobile devices of a number of users. The malware would allow NSO's clients – said to be governments and intelligence organizations – to secretly spy on a phone's owner, opening their digital lives up to official scrutiny.

WhatsApp is used by some 1.5 billion people monthly and has often touted a high level of security, including end-to-end encrypted messages that cannot be deciphered by WhatsApp or other third parties.

Citizen Lab, a cybersecurity research laboratory based at the University of Toronto that worked with WhatsApp to investigate the phone hacking, told Reuters that the targets included well-known television personalities, prominent women who had been subjected to online hate campaigns and people who had faced "assassination attempts and threats of violence."

Neither Citizen Lab nor WhatsApp identified the targets by name.

Governments have increasingly turned to sophisticated hacking software as officials seek to push their surveillance power into the furthest corners of their citizens' digital lives.

Companies like NSO say their technology enables officials to circumvent the encryption that increasingly protects the data held on phones and other devices. But governments only rarely talk about their capabilities publicly, meaning that the digital intrusions like the ones that affected WhatsApp typically happen in the shadows.

Lawyer Scott Watnik called WhatsApp's move "entirely unprecedented," explaining that major service providers tended to shy away from litigation for fear of "opening up the hood" and revealing too much about their digital security. He said other firms would be watching the progress of the suit with interest.

"It could certainly set a precedent," said Watnik, who chairs the cybersecurity practice at the Wilk Auslander law firm in New York.

The lawsuit seeks to have NSO barred from accessing or attempting to access WhatsApp and Facebook's services and seeks unspecified damages.

NSO's phone hacking software has already been implicated in a series of human rights abuses across Latin America and the Middle East, including a sprawling espionage scandal in Panama and an attempt to spy on an employee of the London-based rights group Amnesty International.

NSO came under particularly harsh scrutiny over the allegation that its spyware played a role in the death of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was murdered at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul a little over a year ago.

Khashoggi's friend Omar Abdulaziz is one of seven activists and journalists who have taken the spyware firm to court in Israel and Cyprus over allegations that their phones were compromised using NSO technology. Amnesty has also filed a lawsuit, demanding that Israel's Defense Ministry revoke NSO's export license to "stop it profiting from state-sponsored repression."

NSO has recently tried to clean up its image after it was bought by London-based private equity firm Novalpina Capital earlier this year. In August, NSO co-founder Shalev Hulio appeared on "60 Minutes" and boasted his spyware had saved "tens of thousands of people." He provided no details.

NSO has also brought on a series of high-profile advisers, including former Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge and Juliette Kayyem, a senior lecturer in international security at Harvard University. Last month, NSO announced it would begin abiding by UN guidelines on human rights abuses.

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The internet security company, known primarily for its anti-virus software, said the attacks had two stages. The first had users receive messages that included a malicious link.

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Once the Israelis clicked on the link, it created a so-called back door that would let the hackers take over the individual's phone and seize their data.

The attack was apparently not limited to Israel but was spread across the Middle East as well.

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In a letter to the Unicode Consortium, which selects the emoji icons provided by smartphones around the world and used by tech giants Google, Facebook, WhatsApp, Apple and Instagram, the 700-member Conference of European Rabbis asked for clarification as to why the consortium provides an emoji that depicts a woman wearing a hijab and a man in a turban but does not have any emoji of a Jewish man wearing a kippah or a Jewish woman wearing a headscarf.

CER member Gadi Gronich noted that in today's supposedly pluralistic world where we celebrate difference, the sense is that the Jewish religion is not included in this diversity. He called on the Unicode Consortium not to treat Jews differently from other religions.

According to Gronich, the struggle against anti-Semitism should start small, and including the Jewish religion and its markers in various platforms will assure they are normalized.

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The Financial Times identified the actor as Israel's NSO Group, and WhatsApp all but confirmed the identification, describing hackers as "a private company that has been known to work with governments to deliver spyware." A spokesman for the Facebook subsidiary later said: "We're certainly not refuting any of the coverage you've seen."

The malware was able to penetrate phones through missed calls alone via the app's voice calling function, the spokesman said. An unknown number of people – an amount in the dozens at least would not be inaccurate – were infected with the malware, which the company discovered in early May, said the spokesman, who was not authorized to be quoted by name.

John Scott-Railton, a researcher with the internet watchdog Citizen Lab, called the hack "a very scary vulnerability."

"There's nothing a user could have done here, short of not having the app," he said.

The spokesman said the flaw was discovered while "our team was putting some additional security enhancements to our voice calls" and that engineers found that people targeted for infection "might get one or two calls from a number that is not familiar to them. In the process of calling, this code gets shipped."

WhatsApp, which has more than 1.5 billion users, immediately contacted Citizen Lab and human rights groups, quickly fixed the issue and pushed out a patch. He said WhatsApp also provided information to U.S. law enforcement officials to assist in their investigations.

"We are deeply concerned about the abuse of such capabilities," WhatsApp said in a statement.

NSO said in a statement that its technology is used by law enforcement and intelligence agencies to fight "crime and terror."

"We investigate any credible allegations of misuse and if necessary, we take action, including shutting down the system," the statement said. A spokesman for Stephen Peel, whose private equity firm Novalpina recently announced the purchase of part of NSO, did not return an email seeking comment.

The revelation adds to the questions over the reach of the Israeli company's powerful spyware, which takes advantage of digital flaws to hijack smartphones, control their cameras and effectively turn them into pocket-sized surveillance devices.

NSO's spyware has repeatedly been found deployed to hack journalists, lawyers, human rights defenders and dissidents. Most notably, the spyware was implicated in the gruesome killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was dismembered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last year and whose body has never been found.

Several alleged targets of the spyware, including a close friend of Khashoggi and several Mexican civil society figures, are currently suing NSO in an Israeli court over the hacking.

Monday, Amnesty International – which said last year that one its staffers was also targeted with the spyware – said it would join in a legal bid to force Israel's Defense Ministry to suspend NSO's export license.

That makes the discovery of the vulnerability particularly disturbing because one of the targets was a U.K.-based human rights lawyer, the attorney told the Associated Press.

The lawyer, who spoke on condition of anonymity for professional reasons, said he received several suspicious missed calls over the past few months, the most recent one on Sunday, only hours before WhatsApp issued the update to users fixing the flaw.

In its statement, NSO said it "would not or could not" use its own technology to target "any person or organization, including this individual."

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