Paul Butler tests and demonstrates the flexibility of encoding hidden messages within Unicode characters, including emoji.

The concept revolves around Unicode's system of representing text as a sequence of codepoints, with each codepoint being a number assigned meaning by the Unicode Consortium.

Butler said it is highly unlikely that anyone would be able to use this method to hide malware or malicious code in an emoji.

By chaining the selectors together, he was able to encode invisible messages inside an emoji (or any other Unicode character) ...

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Though it's in beta, and its output can range from weird to terrifying, it's still fun to make and sure your own custom emojis. Genmoji, as the name sounds, is an amalgamation of generative AI and ...

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