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Encrypted Emails Are Now Available for Some Gmail Phone App Enterprise CustomersWe all love encryption. If you use Gmail in an enterprise setting, especially if your work includes sensitive information, you probably love it even more. Certain Gmail app users on iOS and Android phones can now send and receive encrypted emails within the app itself -- no add-ons necessary.Previously, Gmail users...

China's Communist Party investigates ex-Xinjiang leader Ma Xingrui BANGKOK — The disciplinary body for China 's Communist Party said Friday it has placed the former Xinjiang party chief under investigation over suspected violations of discipline and law. Ma Xingrui is a member of the party's Central Committee and served as party secretary of the Xinjiang region in China's northwest from...

Spain luxury hotel scammer 'booked rooms for one cent'Getty ImagesSpanish police have arrested a 20-year-old man suspected of hacking a hotel booking website and reserving luxury rooms priced at up to €1,000 ($1,180; £870) per night for just one euro cent.He was detained while staying at a Madrid hotel, where he is accused of having racked up more than €20,000 of losses during several...

Artists are lawyering up against AI slop, and some are even winningWhen The Atlantic published a searchable dataset of works used to train AI, Kirk Wallace Johnson, like a lot of artists, looked for his name out of curiosity. And, like a lot of artists, he found it. Essentially, his books, like The Feather Thief and The Fishermen and the Dragon — nonfiction tomes that he spent “five to six...