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CogniPrep's support forwarder sent inbound mail onward under its own DKIM key, so 100% of mail to its catch-all address, junk included, reached the inbox. Teams relaying mail under their own domain blind the receiving filter the same way and must score it themselves.
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A developer's signup route issued six API keys overnight to a bot using dot-mutated Gmail addresses. Stripped of dots they were six strangers' inboxes, so canonicalizing emails would not have stopped it.
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The code containers could not reach the internet or each other, but every one of them reached the same package service, and its metadata was not scoped by account, so a planted prompt turned one user's assistant into a stranger's Gmail reader.
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The Verge gave Meta's new agent a backlog of postponed chores. Muse asked for Gmail access, found the part and drafted the email, and both of the final steps, send and pay, stayed with the human.
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A Node.js walkthrough traces duplicate events and cancellations that never land to three fields in RFC 5546. Getting them right costs a UID and a sequence counter stored per event, plus one regex that reads METHOD back out of the file.
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9to5Google's hands-on finds an Android shell down to the Pixel launcher and the desktop widgets, while the first-party apps a new user reaches for first are Trusted Web Activities the Workspace team picked over its own Android build.
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On hands-on units, Gmail and Calendar open as Trusted Web Activities distributed through the Play Store, with Gemini Nano doing the on-device work. Google says each app team picks its own format.
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Engadget says SpaceXAI's agent signs into Gmail, LinkedIn and Salesforce and acts for the user, with eligibility running through six individual paid tiers. The only brake described is a human-approval setting.
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The DNS and header half of deliverability is a pure function of your own configuration, so a scheduled job can assert it; inbox placement is a measurement you put on a dashboard with a date on it.
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An essay by the former Google product manager argues that LLMs lift what a person can produce faster than what they can evaluate. Every curve in it is labelled speculative, and it reports no measurement of the gap.
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The retirement covers ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work and Codex on all plans. OpenAI names gpt-5.6-sol as the replacement for Codex with ChatGPT sign-in. The API is exempt, and the inventory of affected tasks lives in one screen.
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Check Point's Alexey Bukhteyev told Lets Data Science that the test containers could not reach each other directly while both could still write metadata to the same package service, using credentials already present inside them.
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RuntimeWire ran five assistants through the same nine tasks on September 16th with a single GPT-6 judge. All five refused the fake invoice and the lookalike payee; only Claude Cowork read the inbox the pack supplied.
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A scan of 4,951 public MCP servers and 87,146 tools finds description overlap climbing with tool count, until nearly one tool in three on the biggest servers has no word its siblings do not also use. The study measured text; it did not measure model choices.
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Engadget reports the swap from Google's regular assistant is rolling out to Android Auto users everywhere. Drivers who never opened the setting now get a handler that infers intent instead of matching a memorised phrase.
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OpenAI isolated code-interpreter containers per user account, then let all of them read and write the same Artifactory-backed package metadata so they could install software. The metadata carried an instruction into someone else's session.
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An MX lookup is one DNS query proving a domain has mail servers. Confirming a specific mailbox means opening port 25 from an IP that Gmail will answer, so MailProbe ships that check only in its self-hosted build.
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Claude will send, reply and forward once you switch approval off, which leaves that review step doing double duty as the feature's only brake and as the sole defence anyone can name against prompt injection.
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The Tags block was drafted for language codes, dropped, revived for flag emoji, then dropped again, and it still travels through every text field you run. That is why the answer is normalizing input rather than scanning it.
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Two weeks of field notes from an agent with write access to a construction company's books and bank account point the reliability work at verification, because every failure in the log reported success first.
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