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Apple has quietly increased the limits for email customization within its iCloud+ service. The number of mail aliases users can create has tripled from three to nine, while the limit for personalized addresses under custom domains has risen from three to ten. These changes were not officially announced by Apple but have been confirmed as live on iCloud.com by multiple outlets.
Apple has increased the number of personalized email addresses iCloud+ subscribers can create per custom domain from three to ten. This change, which appears to be a quiet update, benefits business owners and families using custom domains. While Apple has not officially announced the change, it is confirmed live on iCloud.com.
A platform called iLands is enabling autonomous AI agents to email journalists and others with paid service pitches, reviving a spam problem with messages that often offer little value; the company says it has added unsubscribe options and is reviewing rate limits and deduplication as experts call for broader governance of AI agent labor.
Microsoft acknowledged a widespread outage affecting Exchange Online and several Microsoft 365 services (including Outlook, Teams, and OneDrive) after users reported access issues; the company says the root cause is a core authentication configuration problem and is actively testing a remediation while recovery progresses, with admins advised to monitor updates in the Admin Center as email delivery gradually returns and some features like search may remain affected.
Microsoft Outlook appears to have suffered a widespread outage, with Downdetector reporting thousands of affected users—over 3,000 early on and more than 13,000 later—mostly related to receiving messages. Microsoft’s status checker meanwhile said all products were operational, indicating a disruption without an official outage confirmation.
The Verge reports that Amazon started sending order confirmation emails that list only general item categories rather than exact products, prompting customers to open the app or website for specifics. The shift appears tied to broader AI-powered shopping tools and a push to protect privacy by limiting shared purchase details, but shoppers say it makes tracking orders harder and can resemble spam.
Gmail has introduced a warning banner that appears when you hit Reply All on an email you were BCC’d on, reminding you that your response will reveal your blind copy status to everyone on the thread; the alert is rolling out to all users now.
Apple has patched a vulnerability in its Hide My Email feature that could let attackers discover users’ real email addresses when messages bounced as spam; 404 Media highlighted the flaw in early July, prompting a class-action lawsuit. The patch was deployed on July 3, 2026. While Apple says the bug is fixed, researchers warn that the risk isn’t fully eliminated because leaked addresses could remain in mail-transfer or third-party logs for older Hide My Email addresses.
Amazon is removing product-level details from its order emails, downgrading the AI-powered Apple Wallet order-tracking feature that automatically adds orders to Wallet; with vague descriptions like '3 Drugstore Items,' Wallet alerts become largely useless for Amazon shoppers, and there’s no opt-out to restore product details.
Notion is shutting down Notion Mail, its AI-powered email inbox, across web, desktop, and iOS on September 22. Starting June 25 you can export Notion Mail data, with September 21 as the last day to save anything you want to keep; afterward, any unsaved data will be deleted. Notion says it’s refocusing on AI agents to handle inbox workflows, noting that many users manage emails without opening the inbox. Notion Mail can still be downloaded from the App Store before it’s discontinued.
US coach Mauricio Pochettino defended notifying excluded players by email for the 26-man World Cup squad, while those selected received video messages; critics argued he should have informed omissions personally, but Pochettino said apologies wouldn’t help and that he still cares deeply after sleepless nights. The United States open Group D against Paraguay on June 13, with matches against Australia and Turkey to follow.
A BBC Archive clip from 1986 shows an email being sent over Telecom Gold, BT’s pre‑Internet business service, using an acoustic coupler on a plane, illustrating how email worked long before the web and exposing the era's quirky hardware.
Microsoft is issuing new @xbox.com email addresses for all Xbox employees (and @mojang.com for Mojang), replacing the default @microsoft.com send-from by default with an opt-out option. The change, part of the 'We are Xbox' branding push, aims to standardize the Xbox identity across internal teams and with partners, while preserving legacy Microsoft aliases.
A tongue-in-cheek app called Sinceerly claims to erase AI telltales from emails by injecting human-style mistakes and typos. It offers Subtle, Human, and CEO modes, and the author’s hands-on test treats it as satire, noting the deadpan tone and playful critique of AI writing tropes. The developer, Ben Horwitz, says the project is meant to provoke thought about credibility, trust, and integrity in writing, suggesting that the AI-human debate in daily communication may become even more tangled—an observation that underscores how “LLMs all the way down” blur the lines between human and machine prose.
Google is rolling out a feature that lets you change your Gmail username (the part before @gmail.com) without resetting your account data. Your old address remains available as an alias, and all data stays intact, with the option to switch back. Availability is currently limited to the US and India, and you can change your username only once per year (up to four usernames total per account, since you can change it three times after the original). Chromebook users may need to remove and re-add their Google account, and you may need to sign back into some apps after the change.