Signal Clone Used by Waltz Suspends Service After ‘Security Incident’

The clone, TeleMessage, was the subject of a reported hack in which the contents of some direct messages and group chats were stolen.

How Geo Group’s Surveillance Tech Is Aiding Trump’s Immigration Agenda

Geo Group, a private prison firm that makes digital tools to track immigrants, becomes one of the Trump administration’s big business winners as its tech is increasingly used in deportations.

With TikTok Deadline Looming, Details of a Potential Deal Emerge

The video app is barreling toward a Saturday deadline to change its ownership under federal law or face a ban in the United States.

How Trump Could Make Larry Ellison the Next Media Mogul

The co-founder of Oracle and friend of President Trump, who was a flamboyant fixture in the 1990s, has returned to the spotlight through — of all things — TikTok.

Republicans in Congress React to Signal Chat Leak With Collective Shrug

A few G.O.P. lawmakers said they would look into the breach, but party leaders largely tempered their criticism of the Trump administration.

Hegseth Disclosed Secret War Plans in a Group Chat

The conversation among the defense secretary and other national security officials on a commercial messaging app mistakenly included the editor in chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg.

The Democratic Party Reconsiders a Huge, Vulnerable Database of Voter Information

The party’s storehouse of everything it knows about American voters required an extraordinary intervention to keep it running, people involved said. A meltdown could have crippled its campaigns nationwide.