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31/03/2026

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09/12/2025

Do you have or know of a .ai ? They're minimum 2 years renewal, which means starting prices are around $210 AUD for 2 years.

Every time someone buys a web domain ending in .ai, the tiny island nation of Anguilla gets a fee. In the same way that .au is for Australia and .uk is for the United Kingdom, the .ai country code is Anguilla's... which means that the launch of ChatGPT and the booming interest in artificial intellig...

18/11/2025

Haha this. Got in at a good time. Definitely got one of the best tweets of the year. For context, 's global outage cycled between on and off states, I got in and posted this to one of Elon Musk's tweets. 😄☄️🤷‍♂️ Cloudflare X Twitter strategies incoming.

This is insane, is responsible? - great for job security. Way too much hype and investment in . https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/cloudflare-is-down-causing-outages-at-x-openai-and-even-taking-some-multiplayer-games-offline

18/11/2025

just took out / # Twitter in one hit lol. Cloudflare Twitter X Twitter Cloudflare

18/11/2025

Happening now AEDT 11:20pm 18 Nov: Widespread global outage. Just when 2025 couldn't catch a break. Tech is built on a stack of cards (usually a few open source libraries holding up the whole thing maintained by 2 Open Source devs with the last commit being from 3 decades ago - there's a good graphic about that, Google it). Cloudflare https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/

18/11/2025

First , then , now all within 2025. is sucking up too much human bandwidth. Cloudflare you've got a massive issue right now. https://downdetector.com.au/status/cloudflare/

13/11/2025

Do you think Google's baked into products poses as a security threat for data?

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When considering whether Gemini, Google's AI model, poses a security threat for Gmail data, it helps to break it down into data handling, privacy policy, and threat surface. Here's a careful analysis:

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1. Data Handling

Google’s AI models, like Gemini, are trained on a mix of licensed data, publicly available data, and (possibly) anonymized user interactions.

Google explicitly states that AI features in Gmail, Docs, etc., do not use your personal Gmail content to train AI models unless you opt into experimental features. So, your private emails should not be directly fed into Gemini’s training corpus.

Implication: By default, Gmail content isn’t being used to train Gemini, so direct leakage through training is unlikely.

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2. Integration Risks

Gemini baked into Gmail might analyze email content locally or via cloud AI inference to provide suggestions (like Smart Compose).

This means data is processed by Google’s servers to generate predictions. While this is standard for cloud AI services, it does expand the attack surface: if Google servers are ever compromised, theoretically email content could be exposed.

Mitigation: Google uses encryption at rest and in transit, and access controls are strict, but no system is 100% immune.

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3. Privacy Policy & Opt-in Features

Some AI features require opt-in. If you enable features like AI-generated drafts or summaries, certain metadata (and content snippets) might be temporarily processed.

Google claims this processing is ephemeral and not used to train the broader model.

Consideration: Turning off AI features limits potential exposure.

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4. External Threat Vectors

Gemini itself isn’t “malicious,” but integration could expand phishing or social engineering risk: if attackers learn how AI summaries or suggestions work, they could craft messages to exploit these behaviors.

There’s also the risk that third-party extensions or scripts interacting with Gmail could misuse AI-assisted content generation.

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Bottom Line

Gemini doesn’t inherently pose a novel security threat to Gmail if Google’s policies and safeguards hold.

The main concerns are cloud processing of email content for AI features, opt-in behavior, and potential attack surface expansion.

For sensitive environments, some users choose to disable AI features or use end-to-end encryption, which Google currently doesn’t fully support in Gmail.

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If you want, I can give a tiered risk assessment showing scenarios where Gemini could actually increase Gmail security exposure—from minimal risk to edge-case high risk. This can help decide whether to enable AI features or not. Do you want me to do that?

20/10/2025

A big one, almost comparable to the /MS outage last year but that was bigger. endpoint failed. Not an easy fix apparently.

Explore expert insights on today’s Amazon AWS outage, its impact on cloud infrastructure dominance, fintech startups, and regulatory scrutiny. Learn why cloud concentration poses risks and how the tech industry is responding.

13/09/2025

06/09/2025

2FA SMS broken

A gaping flaw in SMS lets hackers take over phone numbers in minutes by simply paying a company to reroute text messages.