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Authorities arrest 2 alleged members of prolific hacking group TeamPCP
Authorities in Australia said Wednesday that they arrested two men accused of participating in cybercrimes for TeamPCP, a prolific group of hackers that, over nine months, has carried out a relentless series of supply-chain attacks that infected more than 1,000 organizations worldwide.
In a statement, the Australian Federal Police said the two men were arrested and charged with 14 offenses. The statement said the men were members of TeamPCP, which by the authorities’ count, compromised more than 1,000 organizations worldwide. The statement didn’t identify the men, except to say they lived in the Western Australian towns of Cottesloe and Mandurah. KrebsOnSecurity, citing a lengthy investigation, provided what it reports to be both defendants' names, along with an extensive background of their lives and the mistakes that led to their downfall.
The hacks that keep on hackingTeamPCP has vexed law enforcement officials and security personnel around the world since it emerged in December. The group is best known for a sustained series of supply-chain attacks that laced open source software with malware that self-propagated from one package to another. The viral infections worked by targeting organizations’ CI/CD pipelines, which are used to rapidly develop, update, and deploy software.
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Why AI doesn’t make companies more productive
In 1987, Nobel Prize–winning economist Robert Solow wrote, “You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.”
The same could be said about AI today.
Gartner projects worldwide AI spending of $2.59 trillion in 2026, a 47% jump over last year, with the US accounting for at least half that amount, according to a wide range of estimates.
But in the US, utilization-adjusted total factor productivity grew just 0.07% over the four quarters ending in the first quarter of 2026. That is a near-standstill by historical standards, far below the roughly half-percent annual pace typical of the pre-ChatGPT decade.
Some 95% of enterprise generative-AI pilots have produced no measurable effect on the bottom line.
A report published this week found that even Meta, one of AI’s loudest boosters, has fallen short in its plan to replace workers with AI.
The question of the decade is: Why?
One idea: Blame usersA working paper posted to SSRN by University of Pittsburgh business professor Mark Ma and colleagues, makes a sweeping claim: The productivity shortfall is caused by employees who resist AI out of fear for their jobs.
Over a five-year period, the researchers looked at millions of Glassdoor reviews, thousands of financial reports, hundreds of AI-investment and layoff announcements by US public companies, and some 10,000 earnings-call transcripts.
They found a wide divide between managers, who tend to be true believers in the promise that AI will deliver sky-high productivity, and employees, who worry that AI-driven productivity gains will cost them their jobs.
Companies, the researchers claim, are caught in a doom loop in which they lay off employees, citing productivity gains. But fear of layoffs causes workers to resist the technology, which sabotages the very gains the companies were counting on. Executives see that lack of productivity and conclude that more layoffs will help. (The flogging will continue until morale improves….)
It’s a tidy narrative. There’s just one problem — while parts of this study are backed by verifiable data, two key elements are not. The report fails to support their assumption that fear of layoffs causes employees to resist using AI, and also that productivity gains would be higher if only workers would enthusiastically embrace it.
The researchers never establish causation in their data. It’s a correlation. (That hasn’t stopped other outlets from reporting the link as causal.)
(A quick aside: One of my favorite podcasters, the economist Tyler Cowen, flagged a study this week that examined 194,631 cross-sectional social science papers and found that the share using causal language in titles or abstracts rose from a stable 20% before 2000 to more than 60% by 2024. Unproven causal claims appear to be something of a fad in social science.)
I don’t buy the claim that employee foot-dragging explains the missing productivity gains, for one simple reason: It makes no sense.
For starters, the notion that rank-and-file employees are broadly resisting AI isn’t entirely true. Many are embracing it. A Columbia Business School survey of 1,400 US employees, written up in Harvard Business Review, found that 31% of individual contributors expressed enthusiasm about adopting AI. And many of the non-enthusiastic are being forced to embrace it. More than half of US workers now use AI.
If AI is a significant driver of productivity, businesses should generally be seeing measurable gains now that roughly half of US workers report using it on the job.
Another issue: Workers who think AI might take their jobs have every incentive not to avoid it but to use it conspicuously, demonstrating that they’re on board with the company’s pro-AI policy.
I think the more likely explanation involves another dynamic altogether.
A better idea: Blame AI overloadThe time and trouble of producing a business report, proposal, plan, slide deck, or budget used to limit how large, how complex, and how frequent such documents were. Now, thanks to AI, people can churn out incredibly complex business communications, ideas, and proposals in a few minutes.
Using AI makes the person generating such documents super productive. But then it burdens everyone else who has to sift through those documents, teasing out hallucinations, problems, and irrelevancies, and struggling to grasp ideas that even the so-called creator hasn’t taken the time to understand.
One person’s productivity is everyone else’s information overload, lowering a company’s overall productivity.
“AI can make an organization extraordinarily busy without necessarily making it more productive,” said Justin Greis, CEO of consulting firm Acceligence, in the report on Meta I mentioned above.
This dynamic is playing out everywhere:
- Job applicants can use AI to apply for far more positions, burdening hiring managers and slowing the hiring process. (LinkedIn data shows applications per job posting in the US have roughly doubled since spring 2022.) AI that’s supposed to make it easier to find a job actually makes it harder.
- AI is emboldening more people to represent themselves in court while also speeding up the work of lawyers. A 2026 study by researchers at MIT and USC drew on 4.5 million federal civil cases filed between 2005 and 2026, applied an AI-text detector to a random sample of 1,600 complaints, and found that the share containing AI-generated text rose from 1% in 2023 to 18% in early 2026. That burdens judges, who now have to comb through long, complex filings for citations to nonexistent cases and other hallucinations, slowing justice. AI that’s supposed to make court cases quicker makes them slower.
- Students increasingly use AI to produce longer essays, and a growing number of instructors report leaning on AI tools to keep up with grading, a loop in which the writing and the reading are both partly automated.
AI-pilled chatbot enthusiasts who believe the technology is solving all their problems are judging AI through a narrow personal lens. Likewise, analysts and AI companies look at one person’s productivity gains, extrapolate across thousands of employees, and wrongly conclude that the gains will scale without considering the impact of that output on the productivity of others.
Understanding the problem at scaleThe idea that productivity-enhancing AI might reduce productivity sounds paradoxical, so consider this oversimplified thought experiment. Suppose AI enables you to write three times as many emails as before (say, 30 a day instead of 10). Your email-writing productivity has tripled, making you more valuable to the company.
The problem is that every additional email you send lands in someone else’s inbox. Your colleagues, who once got 10 emails from you daily, now get 30. Multiply that across an organization: if 10 people triple their email output, the team gets 300 emails a day instead of 100. If 100 people do the same, that figure blows up to 3,000, three times the reading burden. The AI that makes email writing easy makes email reading hard for everyone else.
Of course, this dynamic doesn’t apply to every use of AI, every industry, or every employee.
But on the macro level, this is clearly happening. I’m sure you’ve seen it at your own company. And it helps explain what Deloitte called the “paradox of rising investment and elusive returns.”
AI isn’t “bad.” But shortsighted and delusional thinking about it is.
AI is like nearly every powerful technology since the Industrial Revolution: It rewards individuals for behavior that collectively exhausts a shared resource (in this case, human attention).
What’s called for is a wholesale redesign of workplace AI. We need tools built not to make the individual user more “productive,” but to make the organization more productive, magnifying individual ability without dumping needless work on everyone else.
AI disclosure: This article is 100% human-written by the author, Mike Elgan. Some research, brainstorming, and fact- and grammar-checking were performed using AI tools.
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Your inbox secret sauce: 16 hidden Gmail gems for Android
Let’s face it: Email is inherently a bit of a pain. And while Google’s Gmail service is generally pretty pleasant to use, it certainly has some room for improvement — especially on the mobile front.
But as is so often the case with Google products, what you see isn’t entirely what you get. The Gmail Android app has some super-useful hidden touches you’ve probably never noticed lurking beneath its surface — easily overlooked features that can make your mobile email experience more powerful, productive, and effective.
Here are 16 such options worth uncovering — or maybe just remembering.
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Gmail Android feature #1: Advanced email formatting commandsThe Gmail Android app’s email composing screen seems like a pretty bare-bones affair, but long-press on any open space whilst writing a new email — and by golly, goodness goshness, look what you’ll find:
Text formatting is, in fact, available in the Gmail Android app. It’s just up to you to find it.JR Raphael, Foundry
Tap that “Format” option, and how ’bout that? It’s a full slate of advanced text formatting commands for composing your message. You can style any part of your email with bold, italic, or underlined text; you can change your email’s font color or background color; and — an occasional life-saver for the clipboard-happy hyper-pasters among us — you can clear out all existing text formatting with a single tap.
Pretty handy, right?!
Gmail Android feature #2: Custom swipe gesturesEver wish you had an easier way to snooze messages from your inbox — or maybe even just mark ’em as unread without having to do a complicated finger-tap dance? Prepare to be pleased.
Go open up the Gmail Android app’s settings (by tapping the three-line menu icon in the upper-left corner and scrolling down until you see the “Settings” option). Tap “General settings,” then select “Swipe actions.”
There, you can configure exactly what action is associated with swiping an email to the left and to the right from your inbox or from any other message list view. Set things up the way you want, then swipe away to your heart’s content (with the optional occasional cackle).
Gmail Android feature #3: A speedy account-switcherSpeaking of secret swipes, if you’ve got more than one Google account connected to your phone — say, a work account and a personal account or maybe a work account and a confidential chinchilla-chatting account — make a mental note of this: You can switch between your accounts in the blink of an eye by swiping that furry little finger of yours up or down on the profile picture in the Gmail app’s upper-right corner.
Gmail Android feature #4: The contact control panelWhile we’re on the subject of face-oriented actions, here’s another underappreciated Gmail Android gem to add into your productivity toolkit: While you’re viewing any email in your inbox, tap on the sender’s profile picture toward the upper-left corner of the screen.
That’ll pull up a tucked-away control panel that holds one-tap options for starting a new email to that person, scheduling a new calendar event with that person, firing up a new Google Chat conversation with that person (if they’re using a Google account), and calling that person (if you have their phone number stored in your phone’s contacts).
The Gmail app’s contact pop-up panel is a handy way to see someone’s info and interact with them outside of that one email.JR Raphael, Foundry
(Side note: That might be the most flattering image of me ever creeated.)
You can also add the person into your contacts directly via that panel by tapping the little person-plus icon in its upper-right corner — which’ll appear only if said person (and/or chinchilla) is not already in your contacts.
Gmail Android feature #5: The contact step-saverLet’s keep the contact-related goodness going, shall we? Betcha didn’t know you could press and hold a sender’s name whilst viewing an email in Gmail to unearth some handy hidden options.
But yes, oh yes, you absotively can. Go give it a whirl and see: When you do that, you’ll reveal useful commands for copying that person’s email address onto your system clipboard as well as for starting up a separate new email thread to them on the spot.
Simple email address copying, you say? Yes, please!JR Raphael, Foundry
Who knew?!
Gmail Android feature #6: A subject shortcutHere’s another handy long-press treasure to file away in your mental folder of Gmail Android tricks: Long-pressing on the subject line of any message while you’re viewing it will reveal an artfully concealed command for copying said subject in a single fast snap.
An email subject is also easy to copy quickly, once you know the trick.JR Raphael, Foundry
Bam! We’re on fire. And we’ve got lots of good stuff left.
Gmail Android feature #7: Your reply redoEver realize you’ve hit the reply button in an email on your phone when you meant to hit reply-all? Or maybe vice-versa? It happens to me all the time (though admittedly, I have an especially mushy man-noggin).
If it happens to you, too, remember this: You don’t have to abandon the draft that’s open to go back and start over. Just tap the word “Reply” at the top of the Gmail Android reply window on your screen, and — surprise! Right there, you can toggle from a reply to a reply-all and even a forward, if you want — all without ever moving an inch or abandoning the obviously brilliant message you already started composing.
Gmail Android feature #8: The recipient summoning spellOn a related note, the next time you realize you need to add another recipient into an email on your phone — be it a new draft you’re writing, a reply, a forwarded message, whatever — save yourself the trouble of stopping your workflow to move up to the recipient field and instead try this:
Right in the body of the email, where you’re already working, type @ followed by the first letter or two of the person’s name. (You can also go old-school Google+-style and use the + sign instead of @, if you’d rather.)
As long as the person in question is in your contacts, their name will appear in a special selector box right next to your cursor. And from there, it’s just one more tap to add ’em into the email.
Gmail Android feature #9: The recipient shiftarooSpeaking of recipients, if you ever find yourself needing to move folks around between the “To,” “cc,” and “bcc” fields in an email, just press and hold your finger onto the address in question within any Gmail draft that you’re actively editing.
A simple slide is all it takes to change a recipient’s placement.JR Raphael, Foundry
You can then slide, slide, slippety-slide without ever having to lift another finger.
Gmail Android feature #10: An end to accidental actionsIt’s all too easy to tap an icon by mistake when you’re managing email on the go, but Gmail actually has a spectacular way to keep yourself from doing something stupid on accident. It’s an extra step of confirmation for the worst kind of errant email presses — archiving or deleting a message you weren’t done with yet or hitting the Send button before your draft was finished. And it takes only a few quick taps to get it set up and activated.
Mosey your way back to the “General settings” area of the Gmail settings, scroll down to the very bottom of that section, and look for the “Action Confirmations” heading — and there, activate whichever bits of added confirmation will give you extra peace of mind:
Gmail can confirm that you actually want to perform an action to avoid inadvertent archiving — or worse.JR Raphael, Foundry
The one thing worth noting is that the archive and delete confirmations don’t, vexingly, work with the swipe-based gestures we were just discussing for those commands. That’s especially unfortunate, since Gmail’s swipe gestures are all too easy to activate inadvertently when you’re trying to use Android’s awkwardly overlapping system-wide Back motion (unless you know the secret Android gesture trick for avoiding that). But either way, some protection is still better than no protection, don’t ya think?
Gmail Android feature #11: A less annoying Promotions tabThe Gmail Android app’s Promotions tab is both a blessing and a curse. It gives you a great way to keep less pressing messages out of your main inbox view, but it also throws in some ads and does funky stuff with the order of your email.
There’s not much you can do about the ads, unfortunately, but you can stop the app from reordering messages and putting what it considers to be the “high value” promotions above everything else — which can sometimes cause you to see random older emails above more recent and potentially more pressing missives. (Not cool, Google. Not cool.)
To get back to a fully chronological, normal-style view, jump back into the Gmail app’s settings — and this time, tap the address of your Google account, then tap “Inbox categories” on the following screen.
Scroll all the way down to the bottom of the screen that shows up next. See that option labeled “Enable Top Picks”? Uncheck it.
Back your way out of there and then bask in the delight of having your emails once again presented in proper order, even if you can’t completely eliminate those pesky Promotions-tab ads.
Gmail Android feature #12: A less nudgy inboxWhile we’re thinking about annoying features, you know how Gmail does that thing where it “nudges” you to respond or follow up to messages that have been sitting in your inbox for a while? If you find that to be more bothersome than beneficial, head back into the app’s settings and once again select your Google account.
Scroll down til you see the option for “Reply and follow up.” Tap it, then uncheck both options on the screen that follows — for “Suggest emails to reply to” and “Suggest emails to follow up on.”
Nudges no more. Serenity now.
Gmail Android feature #13: The Google service sweep-awayMaybe you’re the one person in the world who actually enjoys having that mammoth-sized navigation bar invading your inbox and taking up precious screen real estate — y’know, that monstrosity Google added into the app a while back to >shove its latest messaging services down our throats offer an easy way to access Google Chat and Meet from within your inbox as well as via their own standalone apps?
I’ve long heard rumors that such a person exists somewhere out there. If you are that person, kindly skip over this section and move on to the next one, as this tip won’t apply to you.
For the rest of us, though, do yourself an enormous favor and turn that blasted added navigation bar off. Just go back into the Gmail Android app’s settings, tap the name of your account, and then:
- Uncheck the box next to “Chat,” beneath the “General” header…
- And scroll down to uncheck the box next to “Show the Meet tab for video calling,” too, under the “Meet” header.
All that’s left is to breathe a huge sigh of relief.
Gmail Android feature #14: Automatic package trackingHow about an added inbox-oriented option you’ll actually want to enable? You’d never know it, but Gmail gained a genuinely helpful feature a handful of years back that lets the app automatically seek out info about shipments mentioned in your email and then keep you aware of their status as the associated packages inch ever closer to your desk and/or door.
Whenever Gmail detects an incoming delivery for you, you’ll see a card like this at the top of your inbox:
Keep tabs on your deliveries right atop your inbox — no ongoing effort required.JR Raphael, Foundry
The only catch is that you might have to first flip a switch for the feature before it’ll work.
Thankfully, it’s quite easy to do — once you know where to look (and what you’re looking for!): Take another trip into the Gmail app settings, tap the name of the account in question, and scroll down until you see an option that says “Package tracking.”
Tap the checkbox next to it to enable it, if it isn’t already active. (And if you aren’t seeing it, take note: This feature for some reason only seems to be available for individual Google accounts, not those connected to Workspace organizations. Go figure.)
All that’s left is to watch and wait for your next package tracking updates to pop up at the top of your inbox — then watch and wait for word that your delivery is en route.
Gmail Android feature #15: A speedy way to set an out-of-office responderFor years, the Gmail mobile app had no way to manage the service’s out-of-office vacation auto-responder. And I’m sure I’m not the only one who sometimes signs out ahead of a planned break and then realizes half an hour later I forgot to set my away message.
Well, fret no more, for at some point in the not-too-distant past, the Gmail Android app gained the ability to control the out-of-office responder. Yes, indeedly: You can just open up the app’s settings, tap the name of the account you want to modify, and then look for the “Vacation responder” option midway down the list of choices.
From there, it’ll take you a mere matter of moments to enable, configure, and edit your out-of-office auto-response to suit any situation imaginable.
Out of office auto-responder editing is never more than a few fast taps away.JR Raphael, Foundry
Gmail Android feature #16: More selective notificationsEmail notifications can occasionally be helpful, but let’s be honest: They can also be pretty hellish. Give yourself a break from the noise by trying out the Gmail Android app’s high-priority notification option, which uses all sorts of signals from your inbox to figure out which incoming messages are actually important to you — and then to notify you only about those emails.
To take it out for a spin, venture once more into the Gmail app’s settings, select your Google account, tap the line labeled “Notifications,” and select “High priority only.” Give it a day and see what you think.
If you know exactly what types of emails you need to be notified about — say, those from a particular person or domain name, those with a specific word in their subjects or bodies, or those that are sent to a particular address of yours — you can skip the machine-made guesswork and just set up your own custom Gmail notifications. As long as you can figure out a consistent formula for what sorts of emails are notification-worthy to you, that approach works incredibly well.
Either way, you’ll have a lot less noise — and a lot more energy to deal with what really matters. Even if, y’know, “what really matters” is simply finding a few free minutes to eat a midmorning hoagie.
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