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WhatsApp Starts Beta Testing End-to-End Encrypted Cloud Backups on Android, iOS: Report

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WhatsApp Starts Beta Testing End-to-End Encrypted Cloud Backups on Android, iOS: Report

It was recently discovered that WhatsApp is testing end-to-end encrypted cloud backup. According to a report, this change is being rolled out to beta testers on the Android and iOS platforms.

The new update of WhatsApp aims to protect backups stored on Google Drive and iCloud by providing users with encryption options. This process adds an extra layer of security to the message history and media files stored in the WhatsApp backup. The instant messaging application was also found separately. The contact information part of the Android application has been redesigned and may soon be available to beta testers. WABetaInfo, the website tracking the beta version of WhatsApp, reported that Facebook’s messaging app has begun to pass the WhatsApp for iOS beta version 2.21.200.14 to test end-to-end encrypted cloud backups for iPhone users. It is said that WhatsApp has also begun to introduce end-to-end encrypted backup options for selected beta testers through the WhatsApp for Android beta version 2.21.21.5.

Last month, WhatsApp announced end-to-end encrypted cloud backup as an optional feature that allows users to protect their message history and media files available on Google Drive and iCloud. The announcement was made a few months after WhatsApp was found to be testing the feature internally. However, the instant messaging application does not provide a specific timeline for when this option will be available to end users.

By enabling end-to-end encrypted backups, you will be able to protect the content of your messages backed up on WhatsApp from third parties-including Google and Apple, which provide cloud services for storing backups. WhatsApp also claimed that even its team cannot access end-to-end encrypted backup content.

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It is important to note that users need to remember the password they used to add a new layer of protection to the backup. If the user forgets the password and loses the phone, the encrypted backup will not be restored. WhatsApp also demonstrated the option of using a 64-bit encryption key to add an end-to-end encryption layer to the backup instead of creating a new password. However, the screenshots shared by WABetaInfo show that beta testers on Android are not yet able to use encryption key support.

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Tom Holland to star alongside Matt Damon in Christopher Nolan’s next, will juggle that with Spider-Man 4 in 2025

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Tom Holland to star alongside Matt Damon in Christopher Nolan’s next, will juggle that with Spider-Man 4 in 2025

Tom Holland, last seen in Apple TV show The Crowded Room last year, has signed his next with Academy Award-winning filmmaker Christopher Nolan.

Tom Holland is going to have a very busy 2025. As per The Hollywood Reporter, the actor has signed Christopher Nolan’s next, which he will juggle the filming of with that of the long-awaited Spider-Man 4. (Also Read – Tom Holland shares why he left alcohol behind: ‘Struggling without booze…’)

Tom signs Nolan’s next

This will mark the first collaboration between Tom and Christopher. While details of his next directorial aren’t known yet, it’s most likely not to have a contemporary setting. It’ll be either set in the past like, his previous film Oppenheimer (2023), or in the future like Interstellar (2014). Matt Damon, who has worked with Christopher in both, has also come on board his next.

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Christopher’s next will be co-produced by him and his wife Emma Thomas’ banner Syncopy Inc and Universal Pictures, as the two production houses will team up after the Academy Award-winning blockbuster Oppenheimer last year. Prior to Oppenheimer, Christopher collaborated mostly with Warner Bros before having a fallout post the debacle of Tenet (2020).

Warner Bros then went on to produce Greta Gerwig’s musical satire Barbie, which clashed with Oppenheimer at the box office and even outperformed it globally. Warner Bros offered Christopher a cheque for the fees he waived off for helming Tenet during the pandemic. While Christopher graciously accepted the belated remuneration, he still went on to pitch his next to Warner Bros.

Tom’s busy schedule

Tom didn’t have any release this year. His last outing was Todd Graff’s psychological thriller show The Crowded Room on Apple TV last year. He’ll juggle the filming of Christopher Nolan’s next and Spider-Man 4 in 2025. Tom has been playing the superhero ever since Russo Brothers’ 2016 blockbuster Captain America: Civil War. He’s slipped into the Peter Parker shoes post that for three standalone films and two Avengers movies. Spider-Man 4 will be helmed by Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings director Destin Daniel Cretton.

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As Tom’s girlfriend and co-star Zendaya will be busy filming Spider-Man 4 in 2025, she’ll reprise her role of Chani in Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi spectacle Dune 3 only in 2026. Meanwhile, Tom is also likely to make an appearance as Spider-Man in Russo Brothers’ Avengers: Doomsday, which will go on floors in the spring of 2025.

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