An earlier version of this story incorrectly listed the number of emoji that had been approved for the Unicode 17.0 update. Unicode has since confirmed that n ...

In celebration of World Emoji Day, the Unicode Consortium this week confirmed the new emoji characters that will be added to Unicode 17 in the fall. Emoji characters that are coming include trombone, ...

A new JavaScript obfuscation method utilizing invisible Unicode characters to represent binary values is being actively abused in phishing attacks targeting affiliates of an American political action ...

In a nutshell: A recent blog post by software engineer Paul Butler has shed light on a novel technique for concealing data within Unicode characters, specifically emojis. The post explains the concept ...

Imagine sending a simple emoji in a text message—just a cheerful smiley face or a thumbs-up—without a second thought. Now, what if I told you that same emoji could secretly carry hidden instructions ...

Every year, the Unicode Consortium decides on new emoji characters that will be coming to smartphones and other devices in the future, and this week, the Unicode 17 emoji recommendations came out [PDF ...

Christine has had an infatuation with video games since she was a child, starting with games such as Diablo 2 and Morrowind. Her current obsessions include Final Fantasy 14, Genshin Impact, and Dragon ...

I’m checking the Auxiliary Charts and wanted to know why 2 Todhri characters appear at the end of Coptic in the script chart: https://www.unicode.org/charts/beta ...

The Fallout game series was one of the pioneers of GenX and Millennial storytelling. When creators Tim Cain and Leonard Boyarsky created a post-apocalyptic vision of human civilization gone awry (but ...

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Twitter—now called “X"—is undergoing a makeover, complete with a new logo that has drawn some criticism. Elon Musk, who bought the company for $44 billion last year, unveiled the “interim logo” on ...

Twitter has replaced its longtime bird logo with an X in order to fit owner Elon Musk’s preferred aesthetic. Musk is famously a fan of the letter X, applying it to everything from his companies to his ...