Google is allowing users to change their Gmail address, per official Google support doc — experimental @gmail feature rolling out in India first, no official announcement yet

For years, Google has enforced a restriction on changing the @gmail addresses it hands out when signing up for a new account. Apart from email, that’s the address you use to log into any Google service, like YouTube, so many of us have been stuck with old identities we’d like to move on from. Fortunately, […]

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10 (Not So) Hidden Dangers of Age Verification

from the it-causes-real-problems dept It’s nearly the end of 2025, and half of the US and the UK now require you to upload your ID or scan your face to watch “sexual content.” A handful of states and Australia now have various requirements to verify your age before you can create a social media account. Age-verification laws may sound straightforward to some: protect […]

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7 smartphone trends I wish would die in 2026

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority On the whole, 2025 was a pretty good year for Android phones. Some brands stepped up with more respectable update policies, a variety of manufacturers now offer phones with absolutely gigantic batteries, and top-end devices have a crazy amount of horsepower. It’s not all sunshine and roses, though, as […]

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LastPass 2022 Breach Led to Years-Long Cryptocurrency Thefts, TRM Labs Finds

Dec 25, 2025Ravie LakshmananData Breach / Financial Crime The encrypted vault backups stolen from the 2022 LastPass data breach have enabled bad actors to take advantage of weak master passwords to crack them open and drain cryptocurrency assets as recently as late 2025, according to new findings from TRM Labs. The blockchain intelligence firm said […]

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The Only Safe Way to Import Legacy Docs: Question-Driven Context Integration

When AI manages your project’s documentation, adding legacy documents seems straightforward—just drop them in the folder. But this silent import creates an invisible problem: the AI can’t distinguish between its own work and external materials. Everything becomes equally authoritative, and your context gets polluted. There’s only one safe way to import legacy documentation: require the […]

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GitHub Availability Report: November 2025

In November, we experienced three incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. November 17 16:52 UTC (lasting 2 hours and 16 minutes) On November 17, 2025, from 16:52 to 19:08 UTC, Dependabot was hitting a rate limit in GitHub Container Registry (GHCR) and was unable to complete about 57% of jobs within SLO.  […]

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