After AI-powered scams overwhelmed my inbox, I investigated how my email address ended up on the dark web—and discovered the ...

I ran out of Google storage space because my Gmail inbox was flooded with unread messages. To continue receiving new emails, I had to delete over 30,000 older ones. Filtering messages, unsubscribing ...

Apple will move new Sign in with Apple and Hide My Email relay addresses to private.icloud.com, requiring developer updates.

Apple's decision to move Hide My Email to a dedicated "private.icloud.com" domain appears to have the consequence of making ...

Online privacy is incredibly important, but it's hard to keep your identity secure when you have to give your email address away whenever you join a website. And if your email address is just your ...

Rae Hodge was a senior editor at CNET. She led CNET's coverage of privacy and cybersecurity tools from July 2019 to January 2023. As a data-driven investigative journalist on the software and services ...

Jake Peterson is Lifehacker’s Tech Editor, and has been covering tech news and how-tos for nearly a decade. His team covers all things technology, including AI, smartphones, computers, game consoles, ...

My Gmail inbox used to be a total mess. While I’ve always been diligent about reading my emails, I was also terrible at managing them. The number of emails in my inbox—ostensibly a place to triage ...

More than 2,000 unread emails, dozens of newsletter subscriptions that I couldn’t care less about, and emails scattered across Gmail’s default categories with no system whatsoever to make sense of the ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. After I completely maxed out of Gmail storage space, I was forced to admit that I'm an email hoarder.