White House staffers are ‘pointing fingers at one another’ in the fallout surrounding Trump Jr.’s emails

AP Photo/Richard Drew White House staffers are said to be pointing fingers at each other as the fallout from Donald Trump Jr.’s emails with a Russian lawyer roiled the Trump administration this week, CNN reported on Thursday night. It all began last weekend, after The New York Times published a report that said Trump Jr. […]

Net neutrality supporters sent over 5 million emails to the FCC

Yesterday, activists advocating for a free and open internet rallied individuals to submit over two million comments and millions of emails and phone calls to the FCC in support of Net Neutrality. Popular sites across the web, from Yelp to Pornhub (and Engadget!), urged users to contact the federal agency and Congress with a singular […]

Findo automatically schedules tasks based on the content of your emails

Findo, an AI-focused smart search startup that’s striving to help people find information buried in cloud accounts, documents, and email attachments, has announced a new personal assistant designed to automatically create tasks and reminders based on the content of your emails. Similar to Findo’s other AI-infused productivity tools, Yva.ai uses natural language processing (NLP) to dissect and […]

Assange: I urged Trump Jr to release emails on Russian lawyer before NYT story

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange tweeted he advised Donald Trump Jr to release the email chain related to his meeting with a Russian lawyer before the story hit the media. READ MORE: ‘Inane nonsense’: Trump Jr. releases Russian lawyer meeting emails The New York Times had been reporting on the meeting between Trump Jr and Russian […]

Congresswoman presses Federal Election Commission to investigate Trump Jr.’s Russia emails

Wikimedia Commons A Democratic congresswoman from New York is asking the Federal Election Commission to investigate President Trump’s 2016 campaign committee following revelations that Donald Trump Jr. was open to receiving damaging information about Hillary Clinton from a Russian source. The email, made public Tuesday, makes a reference to the Russian government wanting to assist […]

Scroogled no more: Gmail won’t scan e-mails for ads personalization

Enlarge / Microsoft’s description of Gmail scanning from the “Scroogled” ad campaign. (credit: Microsoft) Google has announced it will no longer scan e-mail messages for ad personalization. Previously, in the consumer version of Gmail, Google’s computers would scan the contents of every e-mail message to determine a relevant ad to show. The scanning “feature” has been […]

ProtonMail moves beyond encrypted emails and into VPNs with the global launch of ProtonVPN

ProtonMail has officially launched its first new standalone service, three years after the company’s original encrypted email service went to market. With ProtonVPN, the Swiss company is doubling down on its privacy-focused smarts with a new virtual private network (VPN) service. A beta version of ProtonVPN was quietly rolled out back in March, and after several months of […]

E-mails phished from Russian critic were “tainted” before being leaked

Enlarge / This fraudulent e-mail was sent in a successful attempt to phish the Gmail password for reporter David Satter. (credit: Citizen Lab) E-mails stolen in a phishing attack on a prominent critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin were manipulated before being published on the Internet. That’s according to a report published Thursday, which also […]