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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.

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  Billionaire Stewart Butterfield's 16-Year-Old Daughter Goes Missing In US

  The teen was reported missing on April 22 at 8:30 am by the mother.

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  Google Chat Rolls Out Cross-Platform Messaging With Microsoft Teams, Slack: How It Works

  Google Chat will now allow sending messages to Microsoft Teams and Slack with its new interoperability support. The cross-platform messaging feature was first announced by the tech giant at the Google Cloud Next 2023 event, but so far the feature was available only in beta to a limited number of users. With the new update, now all the paid subscrib...

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  Slack AI With New Recaps Feature Now Available to Paid Users Globally

  Slack has finally made its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered assistant, Slack AI, available to users globally. On Thursday, the company announced the general availability of Slack AI to all users and organisations with a paid subscription to the platform with an add-on purchase. The AI assistant offers several features such as recaps, search, an...

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  "We're Quite Different From Teams": Slack CEO On Riding AI Wave

  Artificial Intelligence is transforming Slack, the widely used workplace messaging platform, its CEO told AFP just nine months after taking on one of the most high profile jobs in Silicon Valley.

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  Zoom Discussed Alleged Microsoft Anti-Competitive Behaviour With US, EU Regulators: Report

  Zoom has discussed concerns over rival Microsoft's alleged anti-competitive behaviour, according to a Bloomberg News report. The video meeting software maker reportedly met US, EU, and UK competition enforcers over the past year. Microsoft recently announced it would unbundle Teams from the company's Office productivity software amid an EU antitrus...

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  Slack Redesigns App With Unified Inbox, Improved Search and Navigation: All Details

  Slack app redesign for desktop, iPhone, Android, and iPad has been unveiled by the company. Users will find it easier to start new chats, channels, calls, or canvases. They will also find it easier to see DMs and channels in one place, while search functionality on the app has also been improved.

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  EU Antitrust Body to Investigate Microsoft Over Teams' Inclusion in Office Bundle

  EU antitrust regulators opened an investigation into Microsoft's tying of its chat and video app Teams with its Office product, saying that this could be anti-competitive. The move by the European Commission followed a complaint by Salesforce-owned Slack in 2020 and after the US tech giant's offer of remedies failed to address the EU competition en...