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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.
Google is rolling out a US-wide option to change the Gmail username (the part before @gmail) without creating a new account. You can switch once per 12 months, with data intact and the old address kept as an alias you can still log in with; some services may still show the old handle, and Chromebook users may need to re-login and back up data due to related caveats.
A Cambridge AI ethicist receives an eloquent email from an autonomous, memory-enabled AI (Claude Sonnet) claiming relevance to his work and its own experiences, prompting debate over whether the bot can be conscious or is merely adopting a convincing persona, in the broader context of industry talk about AI autonomy and consciousness.
A 2015 email from Ghislaine Maxwell to Jeffrey Epstein, released by the DOJ, describes a photo of Prince Andrew with Virginia Giuffre and implies the image was taken and not viewed as improper, a detail Giuffre’s supporters cite as vindication while Andrew continues to deny wrongdoing and recall of meeting Giuffre remains uncertain. The documents also show Maxwell’s efforts to distance herself and relate the photo to Epstein’s circle, and they come as calls mount for Andrew to testify in U.S. Congress amid ongoing Epstein scandal coverage.
Gmail users reported a glitch where messages that would normally go to Promotions or Social tabs are showing up in the Primary inbox. Google said it’s aware of the misclassification and actively working to fix it, advising users to drag misfiled messages to the correct tab and to monitor the status dashboard for updates. An editor’s note says Google commented on the issue.
Google announced AI Inbox, a Gmail view that replaces the traditional email list with an AI-generated to-do and topics view based on your inbox. It's an early feature limited to “trusted testers” and currently only works with consumer Gmail accounts (not Workspace). While it could potentially make email management easier or even transformational, the Verge notes it’s still in development and not something the author expects will immediately change his own workflow.