Invisible text that AI chatbots understand and humans can’t? Yep, it’s a thing. A quirk in the Unicode standard harbors an ideal steganographic code channel.

Most readers will have at least some passing familiarity with the terms ‘Unicode’ and ‘UTF-8′, but what is really behind them? At their core they refer to character encoding… ...

Displaying Unicode in Notepad The quickest way to add Unicode text to a Notepad document is to paste it there.

What other common (or uncommon I suppose...) text encoding formats are there besides ASCII and Unicode.I know that in ASCII the string 12345 would be stored as 3132333435. I've seen that string ...

A web application developer found that Chrome and Firefox are vulnerable to homograph attacks, where a party deceives another by using legitimate-looking URLs, which can lead to phishing scams.

A string of invisible Unicode characters, disguised by a black dot emoji, can cause an iPhone's Messages app to crash and become unresponsive.

A new Unicode text bug is being spread around today, popularised by a video by EverythingApplePro. It’s being called the ‘black dot’ bug because of its origins on Android as a bug relating ...

Unicode 10.0 is expected to add 56 new emoji, 8,518 characters, and four new scripts. For a complete breakdown with images, check out Emojipedia. A weekly newsletter by David Pierce designed to ...