Slacks

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  Salesforce Said to Have Blocked AI Rivals from Using Slack Data

  Slack recently blocked other software firms from searching or storing messages on its platform. Since the Salesforce change, Glean and other applications can no longer index, copy or store the data they access via the Slack API on a long-term basis.

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  Slack Rolling Out ‘Mark as Read’ Option in Notifications for Its Android App

  Slack — the cloud-based team communication platform — is rolling out a new feature which makes checking notifications easier. Users will now find a new “Mark as Read” option when receiving a notification from Slack. As the name suggests, this feature will mark the message as read from the notification window itself, eliminating the need to ...

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  Slack Adds Adobe Express, Perplexity and 23 New AI Apps to Its Marketplace

  Slack, the work management and productivity platform, added 25 new artificial intelligence (AI) apps to its marketplace on Thursday. The newly added apps join the pre-existing more than 2,600 apps already available on the platform. Some of these apps are Asana, Adobe Express, Glean, Perplexity, Jasper, and Wiz. The company said that the availabilit...

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  From Slack To Zoom, Alternatives To Skype As It Shuts Down After 22 Years

  With Skype closing, you can use alternatives like Google Meet, WhatsApp, Viber to stay connected.

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  OpenAI to Reportedly Begin Testing ChatGPT Connectors for Slack and Google Drive

  OpenAI will reportedly soon begin the testing phase of a new ChatGPT feature that will allow the chatbot to connect with other platforms. As per the report, the feature is dubbed ChatGPT Connectors and will be available to the platform’s Teams subscribers. It is said that at launch, the tool will be able to connect with Google Drive for Workspace...

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  Microsoft Said to Be Adjusting Office-Teams Pricing to Avoid EU Antitrust Fine

  Microsoft is mulling if it can widen the price difference between the software sold without the app and its Office product sold with Teams to avert a possible EU antitrust fine. The move comes five years after Salesforce-owned Slack complained to the European Commission about Microsoft's tying of Teams with Office.

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  Ex-India Star's Warning For Underperforming Rishabh Pant: "Has Slacked Too Much"

  While Rishabh Pant has failed to shine with his scoring ability in the ongoing Border-Gavaskar Trophy, his shot selections and batting approach have also been under the radar of critics, of late.

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  Google Chat Updated With Slack-Inspired 'Huddles' Feature for Instant Meetings

  Google Chat 'huddles' feature is now rolling out to Workspace users, allowing the to quickly initiate a meeting with a colleague. It is designed to open a picture-in-picture audio call, with the option to add video or screen sharing. Slack has offered a similar quick calling feature in 2021, that was updated with video support a year later.

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  Slack Is Reportedly Working On an AI-Powered File Summary Feature

  Slack, the work management and productivity platform, is reportedly working on a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature. As per a report, the new feature is called AI file summary, and it can summarise documents uploaded to the platform. The new feature is said to be able to summarise text-heavy files to help users quickly get a gist of the topic...

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  Apple Accused of Restricting Workers' Slack, Social Media Use by US Labor Board

  Apple has been accused by the US National Labor Relations board of interfering with workers' rights to collectively advocate for better working conditions by restricting their use of Slack. The NLRB complaint also alleges that the iPhone maker illegally fired an employee who advocated for workplace changes on Slack, and made another worker delete a...

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  Disney to Stop Using Salesforce-Owned Slack After Hack Exposed Company Data: Report

  Walt Disney plans to transition away from its use of Slack as a companywide workplace collaboration system, after a hacking entity leaked online more than a terabyte of company data, according to a report in the Status media newsletter.

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  "Waterfall For Passengers": Congress' Jab Over Water Leakage Inside Train

  A video has surfaced showing water leakage from the roof of a coach of the Jabalpur-Nizamuddin Express, following which railway authorities said the complaint has been dealt with and action taken against the staff concerned for slack supervision.

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  Slack Introduces Status, Catch Up and Slack Launcher Widgets for iPhone

  Slack is bringing three new widgets to the iPhone, the company announced on Monday. The new widgets add catch-up, status view and other functionalities to the iPhone’s home and lock screens, enabling users to leap directly into the different tabs of the Slack app. The features are available to iPhone users following the app’s latest update.

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  Disney's Internal Data Stolen By Hacking Group In Massive Breach: Report

  the hacking activist group published 1.2TB of data, purportedly from Disney's Slack archive, which allegedly contained nearly 10,000 channels with extensive information, including sensitive data about unreleased projects and internal websites. T

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  Slack Co-Founder's Missing Teen Found, 26-Year-Old Man Arrested For Kidnapping

  According to the police, both of them "voluntarily" ran away from Bolinas and have now reunited with their families.