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  Eric Smith (@Eric_Smith08) reported 55 seconds ago

  The uncomfortable truth. Google and Microsoft have spent the last decade building the two most complete free productivity ecosystems in history. Word processing. Spreadsheets. Presentations. Email. Cloud storage. Video calls. Notes. Tasks. Projects. Forms. Websites. AI. Messaging. Calendar. PDF tools. Every category. Both companies. Free. And yet the average knowledge worker pays $80-$150/month for third-party apps that duplicate what these ecosystems already provide because Google markets Gmail and Microsoft markets Word, and neither company tells you about the other 28 tools sitting behind the same login. That’s not an accident. Google doesn’t make money when you use Google Keep. They make money when you use Gmail and Keep keeps you in Gmail longer. Microsoft doesn’t make money when you use To Do for free. They make money when your company sees you using To Do and buys Microsoft 365 Business for the entire organization. The free tools are loss leaders. They exist to acquire users, not to generate revenue. And because they’re loss leaders, neither company promotes them aggressively. You don’t see Google Keep on a billboard. You don’t see Microsoft Planner in a Super Bowl ad. The free tools are invisible by design because the business model works whether you find them or not. Meanwhile, 9 separate companies Notion, Zoom, Dropbox, Slack, Todoist, Grammarly, Adobe, Trello, and OpenAI charge you monthly for products that are often inferior versions of what Google and Microsoft give away. They survive because the free alternatives are invisible. Their entire business model depends on you not knowing that two companies already built what they’re selling. “You have two accounts. You’ve had them for years. Between them, they contain every productivity tool you need free. You’ve been paying $1,644/year for 9 apps that duplicate what your Gmail login and your Microsoft login already provide. The tools were never hidden. They were just never advertised. And 9 companies have been billing you monthly hoping they never would be.” One weekend. 9 apps canceled. $1,644/year back. The accounts were always free. The tools were always there. You just never opened them.

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  Kyle Harrison (@kwharrison13) reported 3 minutes ago

  @Raiddell925 Maybe. Maybe you'd be fine without data centers. But let me ask you this. Do you use credit cards, debit cards, tap-to-pay, gas pumps, vending machines, parking meters, parking apps, ATMs, online banking, mobile banking, mobile check deposit, Zelle, Venmo, PayPal, Cash App, Apple Pay, Google Pay, splitting a dinner bill, autopay on your bills, payroll that isn't a paper check, direct deposit, digital 401(k), Robinhood, Coinbase, credit score checks, loan applications, mortgage applications, car loan approval at the dealership, insurance quotes, filing an insurance claim, e-filing your taxes, gift cards, store loyalty accounts, digital coupons, rebates, buy-now-pay-later, tipping on a screen, email, text messages, iMessage, WhatsApp, Signal, group chats, voicemail transcription, spam call blocking, FaceTime, Zoom, Google Meet, Discord, Slack, video calls with grandparents, phone number lookups, checking your data usage, paying your phone bill, two-factor codes, push approvals to log in, password managers that sync, "sign in with Google," resetting a forgotten password, digital IDs in your wallet app, gym check-in apps, apartment smart locks, hotel keys on your phone, office badge apps, patient portals, seeing your test results, booking a doctor's appointment, telehealth visits, prescription refill requests, the pharmacy knowing what you're on, insurance verification at the front desk, prior authorization, continuous glucose monitors, insulin pump apps, remote pacemaker checks, CPAP data reports, hearing aid apps, therapy apps, period trackers, fertility trackers, medical alert buttons for elderly parents, symptom checkers, finding an in-network doctor, the weather app, radar, hurricane warnings, tornado warnings, flood alerts, earthquake early warning on your phone, wildfire maps, smoke maps, air quality, pollen counts, Amber alerts, emergency alerts, road closure info, Google Maps, Apple Maps, Waze, live traffic, rerouting around a crash, transit apps, real-time bus and train arrivals, tapping your phone to ride the subway, Uber, Lyft, rental car reservations, Turo, bike share, scooter share, EV charging networks, paying for a charge, phone-as-car-key, remote start, finding your parked car, over-the-air car updates, in-car navigation, in-car voice assistants, stolen vehicle tracking, road trip planning, booking flights, checking in for a flight, mobile boarding passes, seat selection, flight status, rebooking after a cancellation, bag tracking, TSA PreCheck lookups, airport wifi, booking hotels, Airbnb, Vrbo, checking into a hotel, cruise bookings, theme park tickets, ride reservations, airline miles, hotel points, currency conversion, Amazon, all online shopping, order tracking, delivery notifications, returns and exchanges, price checks in-store, self-checkout, store apps, curbside pickup, Instacart, DoorDash, Uber Eats, ordering ahead at a restaurant, OpenTable, Resy, waitlist texts, QR code menus, tipping on delivery, subscription boxes, eBay, Etsy, Facebook Marketplace, Craigslist, Poshmark, StockX, Ticketmaster, StubHub, getting into a concert with a phone ticket, Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant, smart thermostats, video doorbells, security cameras, alarm monitoring, smart locks, smart lights, robot vacuums, garage door openers, baby monitors, pet cameras, automatic pet feeders, GPS pet collars, smart sprinklers, smart fridges, app-connected air fryers, cloud printing, printer ink subscriptions, routers you manage from an app, checking if you left the stove on, iCloud, Google Photos, every photo you've taken in ten years, Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, shared albums, phone backups, setting up a new phone, notes apps, calendars, contact syncing, reminders, to-do apps, document scanning, e-signing a lease, Netflix, YouTube, Hulu, Disney+, Max, Prime Video, Twitch, cloud DVR, on-demand cable, Spotify, Apple Music, podcasts, audiobooks, Kindle books, library ebook borrowing, online multiplayer games, matchmaking, cloud saves, game downloads, game patches, single-player games that phone home for a license check, Steam, PlayStation Network, Xbox Live, Nintendo Online, Roblox, Minecraft servers, fantasy football, sports scores, sports betting apps, movie tickets, Google search, Wikipedia, ChatGPT, Claude, every other AI app, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, X, Reddit, LinkedIn, Snapchat, Pinterest, dating apps, Yelp reviews, Google reviews, news sites, Substack newsletters, blogs, forums, checking if a business is open, looking up a phone number, recipes, translation apps, Duolingo, Google Docs, Sheets, Gmail, Outlook, Microsoft 365, Teams, Notion, Figma, Canva, shared calendars, scheduling links, VPNs into work, remote desktop, timeclock apps, shift scheduling apps, requesting time off, expense reports, job applications, LinkedIn recruiters, video interviews, Canvas, Blackboard, checking your kid's grades, school lunch accounts, attendance notifications, online homework, Khan Academy, Coursera, FAFSA, student loan portals, tutoring apps, Fitbit, Apple Watch health data, Strava, Peloton, sleep tracking, smart scales, calorie tracking, meditation apps, workout apps, DMV appointments, renewing your license online, paying a parking ticket, jury duty portals, checking your property tax bill, utility accounts, outage maps, paying rent through an app, HOA portals, storage unit access codes, wedding registries, baby registries, funeral arrangements, Ancestry, 23andMe results, church livestreams, volunteer signups, or GoFundMe? If you said yes to ANY of those then you do, in fact, NEED data centers.

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  SYNTHLEX (@SYNTHLEX_) reported 3 minutes ago

  xAI just handed Grok Bots the right to read, write, and act inside your Microsoft accounts. The timeline is fighting about whether that is safe. The real story is a single permission scope that almost nobody clicked through to read. Grok's Outlook connector asks for two things at sign-in: Mail.ReadWrite and Mail.Send. Full send authority from the first Accept. Grok's Gmail connector, by comparison, starts read-only and only earns send access when you turn it on. Read that again. The Microsoft account got the more permissive default. That is not a footnote. That is the exact line where an assistant becomes an employee. Now look at the screenshot everyone scrolled past. A left sidebar of named workers. Schedule Manager. Inbox digest. Bug triage. Expense digest. Launch post. That is not a chat window. That is a staff directory. First. The unit of AI work stopped being the prompt. You are not typing questions into a box, you are assigning roles to a roster. The interface is an org chart wearing the skin of a messaging app. Second. The permission is the product. For two years the bottleneck was never capability, it was trust. A model that drafts a flawless email but cannot send it is a brilliant intern who still needs you to press the button. Mail.Send deletes the button. The value was never in the draft. It was always in the authority to act without you standing there. Third. Each bot runs on its own cloud computer that keeps working after you log off. Persistence changes the verb. A tool waits for you. An employee works while you sleep. The 9:41 AM digest in that screenshot is a report on labor done in the hours the user was gone. Fourth. OneDrive and SharePoint access is gated to Business and Enterprise tiers, and setup routes through an Azure admin consent. xAI is not selling you a chatbot. It is selling your IT department a workforce. The Copilot war will not be won on model quality. It will be won at the admin approval screen. Fifth. The skill this rewards is not prompting. It is delegation. Deciding which bot gets Mail.Send and which stays read-only. Knowing what "make it 45 min instead" means when a human types it to a manager instead of a machine. The person in that screenshot is not a user. He is running a standup. The model can already do the work. The only decision left is what you sign it the authority to do without asking you first. That was never a prompting problem. It is a management one.

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  Michael Levin⚡️ (@MichaelLevin) reported 4 minutes ago

  Have iOS @gmail notifications been completely broken for anyone else? For me, notifications stop for a period of multiple hours then I get like 45 at once. Notification settings are all correct, tried uninstall and reinstall which seemed to fix it for a day. Now, back to broken.

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  lasan (@las_nish) reported 7 minutes ago

  Comparisons of Free Trial Abuse Prevention Services If you're running a SaaS with a free trial or focusing on PLG, authentication and abuse prevention are not the same problem. - WorkOS: If you're already using WorkOS, WorkOS Radar is probably the first thing I'd look at. For a WorkOS stack, WorkOS AuthKit + Radar makes the most sense. You don't need to bolt another authentication system onto your app just to get abuse signals. - Auth0, Supabase Auth, Better Auth: These are primarily identity/authentication platforms. Integrating only these can't prevent free trial abuse. - Custom: Like the previous options, you need a custom way to prevent free trial abuse. Most free trial abuse methods involve disposable emails, Google dot variations, Google/Gmail domain variations, and plus addressing. That's why even when you block bots via Cloudflare Turnstile or CAPTCHA, you can still get these abusers. The industry standards: - Block free trial abuse using lists hosted on GitHub: This is a pain in the ***. If you don't want to pay money, you can use a service that offers a generous free tier. - WorkOS Radar: This is mainly used at the enterprise level. They focus more on WorkOS-related integrations rather than integrations with other providers. - ZeroBounce, NeverBounce, MillionVerifier, DeBounce: These are mainly used to clean/validate emails. There are 100s of alternatives, and most are similar with minor differences. They all have disposable email checking APIs. - UserCheck: This is also an email validation API, but they focus on blocking fake email addresses. It's better than a basic email verification API. - Autheona: This is in the same category as WorkOS Radar and UserCheck, but with more features. It also focuses on fake user detection and is growing with a real user base. Now, pricing: - WorkOS Radar: First 1,000 checks free, then $100 per 50 checks. No application-specific logic changes. Easy to integrate and manage. - ZeroBounce: 100 free validations in the free tier, then pay-as-you-go, starting at 2,000 for $39, and so on. - NeverBounce: No free trial or use case, $8 per 1,000 checks. - UserCheck: 1,000 API requests per month in the free plan. The rule-based engine is not included in the free plan, and you can get up to 1 request per second. - Autheona: 3,000 checks per month, with the rule-based policy engine included. Standard API request rate limitations apply, similar to paid plans. Now, use cases: - WorkOS Radar: Block disposable emails, plus addressing, and Google dot variations. - ZeroBounce, NeverBounce, etc.: Block disposable emails. - UserCheck: Block disposable emails, plus addressing, and Google dot variations; detect public emails; email suggestions; syntax validation; role detection. - Autheona: Everything included in UserCheck, plus business/free/government email identification, deliverability checks, fraud patterns, punycode and mixed-script checks, VPN detection, and bot detection (not necessary if you already use CAPTCHA, Cloudflare, etc.). Final decision from me: - Use WorkOS Radar if you're already in the WorkOS ecosystem. It's harder to integrate with other auth providers. - Use ZeroBounce-like APIs if you need basic disposable email checks. They're not as good if you need a better free tier. - Use UserCheck if you only need email-related validation and want to stay within the free plan. - Use Autheona if you need the most generous free tier available with a custom policy engine. All services take a maximum of a few hours to integrate and test. Both UserCheck and Autheona have a similar approach: integrate once and never touch the code again.

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  Lovable (@_lovablecurves) reported 10 minutes ago

  what I did to troubleshoot the fact that there is no @Mailchimp connector yet and I didn’t wanna set up an API or an MCP I just connected it to the associated Gmail and I gave it the instruction that throughout the month. I’m gonna send photos information and recap on events we have with the title “month, Year MailChimp newsletter” so at the end of the month it can review all the stuff I’ve sent it to put together in this email and then it can also review the previous months email to cross-reference and check for other items that are relevant to add to the email… so I can just dump all the content in my Gmail inbox and it can work and its own computer and MailChimp after I login. 🎉

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  𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐂𝐫𝐲𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐖𝐨𝐥𝐟 (@TheCrypticWolf1) reported 12 minutes ago

  @Jaywash_1NFT @Cointelegraph @Yubico Yubikey is a security key that's acts as MFA for accounts such as Gmail, social media accounts, etc, it can't be used with Hardware wallets, unless there is an account login where you sign up with email or phone number and password. Most hardware wallets are not compatible with security keys because they simple don't require it as the hardware wallet acts as the authenticatior in that situation.

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  THE Rev. Quantum Bigfoot⚛️🫈♿️#FLTG OG👴🏼#ZERORGB (@RevQntmBigfoot) reported 16 minutes ago

  @MisterSpace3 Yes if you don’t log in after a certain amount of time to PSN account they class as abandon. It is in ToS when sign up. I had to login recently as they email you to inform that not logged in for so long. Google do the same with Gmail accounts.

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  Kay Dray 💎 | (@Richhard430) reported 20 minutes ago

  @Ask_ORO I can't even login into my account I used my Gmail and X buh can't connect

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  Chaotic (@Chaotic_sama) reported 26 minutes ago

  @MRHarleyson Both cases I submitted is close, I told Discord supports (on Direct message Twitter/ X) and the support ticket about my gmail have been also hacked that I have no way to sign in. I told them that the gmail account have been hacked and brushed me off that (1/2)

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  Ashley (@SheRunsCode) reported 29 minutes ago

  Almanac. YC S26. Own computer. Text it work; it texts when it's done. Slack and iMessage. A wiki it reads before it acts. Pauses at login, payment, or a decision it should not make alone. 7-day trial on all plans. Opened HN stamp: 19 hours ago on September 1, 55 points, 47 comments. Product Hunt: launched this week, 211 followers, 3.0 from 1 review. No rank on that page. No dollars on the homepage I opened. I did not connect Gmail. Not Runway's agent. Would you text a computer work, or keep a tab open to watch it?

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  Amine (@halalmails) reported 30 minutes ago

  Founders think BFCM prep starts in November By then it’s already too late Gmail, Yahoo, and Outlook don’t judge your emails on Black Friday. They judge you on what you’ve been doing in the weeks leading up to it The emails you send this month decide whether your November campaigns land in the inbox or rot in spam If you email subscribers who open and click, better placement, more opens, better reputation. The loop pays you If you blast a full list that mostly ignores you, promotions tab, then spam, then a reputation that keeps sliding. The loop bleeds you By the time Black Friday hits, the loop is already locked. You can’t fix it in a weekend What to actually do this month: → Send only to subscribers who opened or clicked in the last 90 days → If above 40% open rate ibcrease to 120 days if less decrease to 60 days → Exclude Marked as spam, unsubscribed, dropped and suppressed atleast once overall time. → Keep sending consistently 3-4 a week, 80% designed, 20% plain text →Clean your list every 2 weeks Black Friday is won in the weeks most founders spend ignoring email

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  dusty (@Dtraintolomah) reported 33 minutes ago

  @Robyn3rfw @fib618nyc @alojohhardcore so i get these generic trade alert emails, but they dont pop up from my lock screen because i dont want every single gmail i get notifying me. furthermore, it doesnt say what trade it is, so i have to click the link into the AJ app, which requires me to login every time, unlike

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  Deanna (@DBaddie85) reported 33 minutes ago

  @TodaysNewsco I don't get why his Dad is so mad? Why the delayed reaction to the new gmail login? Is this real or fake for money?

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  Julian Goldie SEO (@JulianGoldieSEO) reported 44 minutes ago

  ChatGPT can now read ALL your Gmail accounts at once. Work inbox. Personal inbox. That old one you forgot about. Until this week, it could only see ONE. The rest were locked out. That just changed. And barely anyone noticed. Here's the setup (it's stupidly simple): Go to plugins. Pick Gmail. Click the gear icon. Hit "Connect another account." Sign in. Done. Repeat for as many accounts as you want. Calendar and Contacts work the same way. Now try this one prompt: "Review my emails and give me a summary of the last 3 days." It reads everything. Tells you what matters. Tells you what to handle FIRST. No inbox dread. Just a clean starting point. And the questions that were impossible a week ago: "Find that email from Sarah." Work or personal? Doesn't matter. It checks both. "What do I still owe replies to?" Across every account. One answer. "When am I actually free this week?" Both calendars. The REAL answer. No double-booking. Two smart habits: Start with read-only permissions. Let it summarize first. Open up sending later, once you trust it. And name the inbox you mean. "Work inbox" gets you a clean answer, not a mixed one. The biggest win isn't the summaries. It's never logging out and back in again. Stop checking your inbox. Let your inbox report to you.