Years ago, email spam was a huge problem. There was an escalating war between spammers and spam filters. Eventually, spam filter technology won. Although email spam is still a thing, the vast majority ...

While some would say there is no such thing as a free lunch, if by “lunch” they mean canned spam, they’re wrong. A free application called SpamPal will toss your junk mail in the can quietly, ...

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Your phone already has powerful spam protection tools—you just need to activate them. We show you how on iPhone and Android.

The latest post on the Google Security blog details a new upgrade to Gmail’s spam filters that Google is calling “one of the largest defense upgrades in recent years.” The upgrade comes in the form of ...

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There's been a recent surge in a method to evade spam filters: disguising text by using the venerable ASCII art method. But so far, spammers are bungling the attempt. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...

Anecdotal evidence from Gmail users—including the author of this story—suggests that something changed with Gmail’s spam filter settings in recent weeks, resulting in the email provider letting ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. The Federal Election Commission is planning to vote later this week on Google’s proposed pilot program to keep eligible political ...

Spotify on Thursday announced a series of updates to its AI policy, designed to better indicate when AI is being used to make music, to cut down on spam, and to make it clearer that unauthorized voice ...

Conservatives are split over whether Google email filters are flagging Republican lawmakers’ emails as spam and thereby unfairly censoring them. A recent study found that Google has disproportionately ...