Security firm Check Point Software Technologies found a vulnerability in Facebook's messaging system allowing hackers to alter chats for malicious purposes.
Bots are taking off, set to be a part of a range of platforms, including Messenger, SMS, and Slack. Botlist is a bot app store for all of those platforms.
Facebook includes new features such as Photo Magic, holiday themed emoji, and the snow globe feature, for spreading holiday cheer through its messaging app.
The revamped Yahoo Messenger can pull photos from Flickr and searches for GIFs using Tumblr's fast library. Group chats are also packed with new features.
Facebook's M is a new virtual assistant that's part of Messenger. Part artificial intelligence and part human, M aims to be the best virtual assistant on the market.