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Google’s Messages app might be getting cross-platform chat encryption in the future. The company is announcing adoption of an end-to-end encryption system known as Messaging Layer Security, or MLS. It’ll allow Google’s platform to connect and exchange messages with outside messaging apps that also support MLS (via 9to5Google).

Want to message a group chat and have it securely and seamlessly appear on other people’s devices in their preferred chat apps? That’s the future European regulators are pushing for: to get tech companies to implement an end-to-end encryption system that allows users to securely message between platforms.

Meaningful interoperability would require major companies to back the same standard, and MLS now seems to have one of the biggest ones on its side. Google also supports the carrier-backed end-to-end encrypted messaging system known as RCS. For a while, RCS didn’t have proper security for group chats, but Google is now releasing a version

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The WSJ reported, "For many years, telecom companies have known about the lead-covered cables and the potential risks of exposure to their workers, according to documents and interviews with former employees. They were also aware that lead was potentially leaching into the environment, but haven't meaningfully acted on potential health risks to the surrounding communities or made efforts to monitor the cables."

The WSJ quoted former cable splicer James Winn, who worked for several Bell system companies for 45 years, as saying the companies "knew the risks, but they didn't want to do a lot to mitigate it." "Company testing in the 1980s found that [Winn] had high levels of lead in his blood, but his manager told him to go back to working with lead shortly after, he said," the WSJ wrote. Another WSJ article on the topic that came out today profiled former workers who have illnesses that could have been caused by lead exposu

The WSJ reported, "For many years, telecom companies have known about the lead-covered cables and the potential risks of exposure to their workers, according to documents and interviews with former employees. They were also aware that lead was potentially leaching into the environment, but haven't meaningfully acted on potential health risks to the surrounding communities or made efforts to monitor the cables."

The WSJ quoted former cable splicer James Winn, who worked for several Bell system companies for 45 years, as saying the companies "knew the risks, but they didn't want to do a lot to mitigate it." "Company testing in the 1980s found that [Winn] had high levels of lead in his blood, but his manager told him to go back to working with lead shortly after, he said," the WSJ wrote. Another WSJ article on the topic that came out today profiled former workers who have illnesses that could have been caused by lead exposure. "Some of the workers have neurological disorders, kidney

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