If your Gmail account doesn’t seem to be working properly today, you’re not alone.

Another day, another trove of login credentials in plain text found online.

Google is making a significant change to how you manage your email accounts. The company announced it will be ending support for two long-standing features, Gmailify and the traditional POP fetching method, starting this month.

Google Search is adding new features to Personal Intelligence in AI mode, allowing it to pull context from Gmail and Photos so it can answer questions that depend on your own history.

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The phishing campaign targeted users on WhatsApp, including an Iranian-British activist, and stole the credentials of a Lebanese cabinet minister and at least one journalist.

Google is finally giving users the ability to change their email addresses and has detailed how the feature works.

The post Changing your embarrassing Gmail address is finally possible! Here’s how it works appeared first on Digital Trends.

Google has toyed with personalized answers in Gemini, but that was just a hint of what was to come. Today, the company is announcing extensive "personal intelligence" in Gemini that allows the chatbot to connect to Gmail, Photos, Search, and YouTube to craft more useful answers to your questions. If you don't want Gemini to get to know you, there's some good news. Personal intelligence is beginning as a feature for paid users, and it's entirely optional.

By every measure, Google's models are at or near the top of the AI heap. In general, the more information you feed into a generative AI, the better the outputs are. And when that data is personal to you, the resulting inference is theoretically more useful. Google just so happens to have a lot of personal data on all its users, so it's relatively simple to feed that data into Gemini.

As Personal Intelligence rolls out over the coming weeks, AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers will see the option to connect those data sources. Each can be connected individually, so you might choose to allow Gmail access but block Photos, for example. When Gemini is allowed access to other Google products, it incorporates that data into its responses.

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Google is ending Gmailify and POP-based fetching in Gmail, pushing users toward forwarding or IMAP in the mobile app to keep third-party mail accessible.

The post Gmail Says Goodbye to Gmailify and POP3: What Users Need to Know appeared first on TechRepublic.

Google is ending Gmailify and POP-based fetching in Gmail, pushing users toward forwarding or IMAP in the mobile app to keep third-party mail accessible.

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This week on the GeekWire Podcast: Amazon and Microsoft are racing to define the next era of consumer AI, on multiple fronts. We discuss Amazon’s attempt to upgrade Alexa into a true generative AI home chatbot — complete with a new web portal and updated Alexa app — while Microsoft tries to win over retailers with a new Copilot Checkout feature.

Plus, we explore Google’s upcoming “AI Inbox” for Gmail, which promises to act like an executive assistant for your email. We talk about our smart bird feeder experiment that resulted in “fuzzy birds,” due to improper focal length. And we share our initial experience with AI automation on the Windows PC desktop using Vy from Seattle startup Vercept.

Finally, we offer a Netflix recommendation, Cover-Up, the documentary about legendary investigative journalist Seymour Hersh. We couldn’t help but wonder: what would uncover if he could digitize all those notes and put them through an AI model?

And on that theme, we lament the loss of a major American newspaper, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and reminisce about the time GeekWire made an appearance on its editorial page.

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The aim is to transform Gmail from a traditional inbox into what Google describes as a “personal, proactive inbox assistant.”

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The aim is to transform Gmail from a traditional inbox into what Google describes as a “personal, proactive inbox assistant.”

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Gmail made us all rethink how email could work when it debuted more than 20 years ago. Google thinks we're in the process of another email transformation courtesy of AI. The company has unveiled a new round of AI features that will make Gemini an even more integral part of Gmail. The new Gemini experiences are coming to paying subscribers starting today, and a collection of previously premium-only AI features are rolling out widely.

AI Overviews first appeared in Gmail last year to summarize email chains, and now it's expanding to Gmail search. This is closer to the AI Overview experience to which you are accustomed in Google's web search. You can enter a natural language search, and the robot churns through your messages to generate a response.

In the example above, the user looks up a past plumbing quote. Traditionally, Gmail would show emails that are likely matches for your search. With AI Overview, you instead get a nicely formatted AI answer that includes all the relevant information and cites the email. That sounds all well and good, assuming it works. AI Overviews in search is notoriously inaccurate when summarizing search results, but grounding it in your email could make it less likely to screw up. Maybe.

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Users must manually disable the settings in multiple hidden locations to opt out—a process so complex that even security experts initially got it wrong.

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Users must manually disable the settings in multiple hidden locations to opt out—a process so complex that even security experts initially got it wrong.

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Changing a Gmail address has long been a challenge for users who did not want to...

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Google is rolling out a way to add a new Gmail address without losing data, with a strict limit, and new phishing risks as scammers exploit the change.

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Google is rolling out a way to add a new Gmail address without losing data, with a strict limit, and new phishing risks as scammers exploit the change.

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“Freenet”

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“I2P”

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