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Apple Is Deleting iCloud Emails That Have The Phrase ‘Barely Legal Teen’ In Them

Something really weird is happening to iCloud emails. It turns out, Apple is straight up deleting emails sent from iCloud email accounts that have the phrase “barely legal teen” in them. Like, if you sent out an email that included that phrase in the body of the message, it would never be sent to the person. Huh?

28 January 2013

Online

Are You Getting Less Spam Mail?

The Economist has a chart from Kaspersky Lab, a security firm, that shows that spam mail is on a decline. Supposedly, it’s a combination of spam filters actually working, the authentication of senders and more police crackdowns on Nigerian princes.

21 June 2012

Online

Why Scammers Say They’re From Nigeria

We all get them: scam emails that claim to be able to make us millionaires overnight. But why are they so terribly unconvincing? And why do they even admit to being based in places like Nigeria? One Microsoft researcher claims to have the answer.

29 September 2011

Computing

Proof Amazon’s Going To Sell A Shitload Of New Kindles

This email from my mother, just now. She’s never expressed interest in a table of any kind, ever before. She’s extremely smart, but not so interested in tech. Well, she sure is now. And there are millions like her.

21 September 2011

Online

Yahoo (Accidentally?) Blocked Emails About Wall Street Protests

Wall Street has been a mess of bodies and police for the past few days as Occupy Wall Street protests have clogged up lower Manhattan. But there were some congestion problems online too, as Yahoo was reportedly blocking emails attempting to organise the gathering.

10 September 2011

Online

How Researchers Stole Emails From Fortune 500 Companies

Two researchers who set up doppelganger domains to mimic legitimate domains belonging to Fortune 500 companies say they managed to vacuum up 20 gigabytes of misaddressed email over six months.

7 September 2011

News

Carol Bartz: I’ve Been Fired As CEO Of Yahoo

Carol Bartz just confirmed she’s been fired from her position as CEO of Yahoo. The short announcement was sent via email from her iPad.

2 September 2011

Geek Out

The Cleverest Holiday Auto-Reply Email I’ve Seen

How many times have you seen the generic auto-reply email that says “Hi, I’m going on holidays with limited access to email and won’t be able to respond to your message. Please contact such and such.” You know damn well they’re lying.

31 August 2011

Geek Out

Tim Cook’s Battle Cry Email

Pundits and investors keep whining that Tim Cook isn’t Steve Jobs and that Apple’s doomed, blah blah blah.

8 August 2011

Online

Brash Android Emails Could Prove Very Costly For Google

Who needs a “a hostile, organised campaign” to hamper Android? Google’s own internal documents, now seemingly pivotal in its intellectual property court case with Oracle, are doing the job quite well already.

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