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After spotting early code for the functionality in March, Android Authority has managed to get it working in the latest beta build of Google’s RCS messaging app. For now it’s not triggering any extra notifications for people who get tagged though. Google is yet to confirm it’s working on mentions, so we don’t know how long it’ll take to roll out for real.

Slack has acknowledged an outage Monday evening as “...users are experiencing issues connecting to Slack and are unable to load threads,” with most reports noting problems beginning just after 6:30PM ET.

Match Group, which owns Match.com and other big dating apps, announced its quarterly earnings today and announced a workforce reduction that new CEO Spencer Rascoff said will reduce “around 1 in 5 managers overall.” Based on its 2024 filing, Bloomberg says that’s about 325 jobs.

After filing an appeal, Apple is now asking the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to pause the Epic vs. Apple injunction requirements that prevent the company from restricting external links in iOS apps and charging fees on purchases made outside the App Store.

The WhatsApp beta for Android 2.25.15.12 update includes an in-development AI feature that summarizes messages in chats, groups, and channels using the Private Processing AI tech Meta announced last week, allowing users to quickly catch up on lengthy conversations.

The office collaboration / messaging app is still functional, but a notice on Slack’s website confirms there’s an issue affecting the Later tab for saved items in its desktop and web app as of about 1PM ET.

Only the albums’ owner can make changes, with the option to save the edits just to their own gallery as a copy or also to the shared album, Google writes in a help page. The feature is already live in Google Photos on the web and in iOS, and is now coming to the Android version of the app, as well, as Android Authority notes.

That means you can now organize bundles of tabs into groups labeled by name or color. Firefox is also testing an AI-powered tool that will suggest tab groups and names based on the pages you have open in the browser.

Today, a Flappy Bird game launched in the Epic Games Store on Android (and nowhere else, so far), but is it the Flappy Bird? It’s from the same “Flappy Bird Foundation” that said it acquired the trademark last year, and also seems to have some kind of crypto / Web 3 tie-in ambitions.

The newsletter-turned-more platform has been experiencing an outage for about an hour. However, the status page now says that “Substack publications, the publisher dashboard, and other functionality are fully recovered,” with work continuing on getting the app and webpage back up and running.

Companies that offer services will be able to use the AI-powered answering service, too. Yelp will “soon begin testing” the product, according to the description of its video about the tool.