WIRED: How to Make Sure Important Emails Don’t End Up in Spam

WIRED: How to Make Sure Important Emails Don’t End Up in Spam. “It’s important to regularly check the contents of your spam folder, and to set up a list of safe senders. So, for example, you might put your kid’s school on there, or your key contacts from work, or your significant other. Email sent from these addresses will never be canned, so you don’t have to worry that something has slipped past you. These lists can be configured in just about every email app, and they are easy to set up. Here’s how.”

University College London: Deprived teens with poor learning skills at greatest risk from email scams

University College London: Deprived teens with poor learning skills at greatest risk from email scams. “The findings, published in the British Journal of Educational Studies, were based on more than 170,000 students aged 15 and show that one in five from low-income families or deprived areas could fall victim to phishing. This is much higher than the probability for the age group overall. Email scams leave people vulnerable to identity theft, putting young people at risk of financial fraud and having their savings stripped.”

Lifehacker: Use Text Expanders to Email More Efficiently

Lifehacker: Use Text Expanders to Email More Efficiently. “We all waste a lot of time writing out emails. Many of these emails say the same basic thing, too, when you’re following up on something, sending an introduction, or emailing a process explanation—and it can be mind-numbing to type it all out over and over again. But you actually don’t need to repeat common messages all the time, nor do you need to frequently copy and paste: Instead, try a text expander to quickly send out pre-defined paragraphs and get your day moving faster. You have a few different options, but in general, they work the same way: You type one word to trigger the insertion of another, pre-written sequence of words.”

Lifehacker: Shortwave Is the Spiritual Successor to Google’s Inbox

Lifehacker: Shortwave Is the Spiritual Successor to Google’s Inbox. “Enter: Shortwave, a relatively new email app from ex-Google designers. As reviewed by The Verge, Shortwave instantly evokes the experience of using Inbox, down to the UI. The biggest similarity, and the one feature former Inbox users are likely to be excited by, is its use of bundles to group similar emails together.”

Ars Technica: Typo leaks millions of US military emails to Mali web operator

Ars Technica: Typo leaks millions of US military emails to Mali web operator. “Millions of US military emails have been misdirected to Mali through a ‘typo leak’ that has exposed highly sensitive information, including diplomatic documents, tax returns, passwords, and the travel details of top officers. Despite repeated warnings over a decade, a steady flow of email traffic continues to the .ML domain, the country identifier for Mali, as a result of people mistyping .MIL, the suffix to all US military email addresses.”

Australian Associated Press: Google ordered to hand over details of anonymous sender

Australian Associated Press: Google ordered to hand over details of anonymous sender. “Google has been ordered to hand over the account information and IP address of a person who allegedly defamed a Victorian Labor candidate in an email. Nurul Khan was endorsed to run for the Labor Party in last year’s state election but an email littered with allegations against him was sent to ministers and news organisations on November 9.”

PsyPost: Younger, more extroverted, and more agreeable individuals are more vulnerable to email phishing scams

PsyPost: Younger, more extroverted, and more agreeable individuals are more vulnerable to email phishing scams. “New research published in Applied Cognitive Psychology suggests that the older you are, the less susceptible you are to phishing scams. In addition, highly extroverted and agreeable people are more susceptible to this style of cyber attack.”

The Verge: Gmail ads are getting more annoying

The Verge: Gmail ads are getting more annoying. “Gmail is getting more persistent advertisements that have started popping up in the middle of some users’ inboxes, as first reported by 9to5Google. Several screenshots posted to Twitter show promotional messages mixed in with actual emails on Gmail’s desktop site, and users aren’t very happy about it.” Giving me strong AltaVista vibes.

CNN: Google was beloved as an employer for years. Then it laid off thousands by email

CNN: Google was beloved as an employer for years. Then it laid off thousands by email. “Google (GOOGL), which for years ranked as the top company to work for in the United States, laid off thousands of workers by e-mail. And not just any employees: Decades-long veterans of the company, at least one employee on health leave, and even an employee in labor with her second child were all cut, with little explanation.”