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Salesforce changes Slack API terms to block bulk data access for LLMs – Computerworld
SaaS overload SaaS platforms – Salesforce, Teams, Gmail, Google Drive, Office 365, Dropbox, ServiceNow, GitHub, and many others – are hugely popular, but the more of these an organization uses, the more ‘silos’ of data employees must trawl through to find useful information. Founded by former Google employees, Glean itself supports 100 of these platforms, which puts the scale of the…
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Get used to working with AI teammates in Slack
Slack was a marquee acquisition for Salesforce when it snapped up the firm for $28 billion in 2021, and with the rise of agentic AI it’s clear the workplace collaboration platform is critical to the company’s Agentforce strategy. Integration between Salesforce and Slack is continuing at pace, and Rob Seaman, chief product officer at Slack, says the platform is now…
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‘You can see the horrible things that Microsoft did to Slack before we bought it’: Marc Benioff warns Microsoft could repeat ‘pretty nasty’ Slack playbook with OpenAI amid frayed relationship
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff claims Microsoft did “horrible things” to Slack prior to its acquisition — and could be ready to repeat its “playbook” of anti-competitive behaviour with OpenAI. The Salesforce CEO isn’t one to mince his words, having previously compared Microsoft Copilot to “Clippy,” and called its AI tools a “huge disaster”. In his latest war of words with…
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Hacker ‘NullBulge’ pleads guilty to stealing Disney’s Slack data
A California man who used the alias “NullBulge” has pleaded guilty to illegally accessing Disney’s internal Slack channels and stealing over 1.1 terabytes of internal company data. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, a 25-year-old named Ryan Kramer created a malicious program in early 2024 that was promoted as an AI image generation tool on GitHub and other platforms. However,…
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7 Slack apps for file sharing and collaboration – Computerworld
Create a new OneDrive document: In a new message, type /onedrive and select Create a document, Create a presentation, or Create a spreadsheet. You’ll be prompted to give the file a name, optionally add a message, and choose which channel or DM to post it in. The file will be created in your default OneDrive location. Creating a new Excel…
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Slack Outage Disrupted Work Messaging
Slack reported an outage on February 26 and 27, with most features back up by Thursday but some issues with messaging still persisting; in particular, some custom apps and bots did not work as expected. In addition, a problem with Slack Connect meant coworkers might not get notified if someone pinged them with the @ command. According to Downdetector, about…
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A Slack outage is breaking notifications
Some Slack users are finding that their notifications aren’t showing up on the platform this morning, or that their corresponding messages are harder to find than usual. A few of my colleagues are reporting similar issues on The Verge’s Slack channels, and I’ve been receiving repeated notifications for thread messages that I’ve already marked as read. The issues also seem…
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Remember to Back Up Your Free Slack Chats Before They’re Wiped
Summary Slack auto-erases messages after a year. Back them up regularly. Free plans only allow exporting public channel messages. Pro, business, and enterprise plans can export everything. To back up Slack chats, export the workspace as a JSON archive. To import, upload the same file & select import options. Slack no longer keeps your workspace’s messages and files saved forever…
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Slack adds Agentforce ‘hub’ for AI agents – Computerworld
“From there, you can activate your chosen agent and begin a conversation,” the Slack team said in a blog post. Agents are tailored to a variety of use cases; deal assistance, IT help, onboarding, and marketing strategy are some examples Slack detailed. As well as pre-built agents, customers will be able to host their own customized agents in the Agentforce…
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Slack adds templates to help users kick off projects quicker – Computerworld
“Teams shouldn’t be reinventing the wheel with each new project,” Rob Seaman, senior vice president for product at Slack, said in a blog post Wednesday. “Templates provide the setup and framework for every line of business, so there’s no guessing at how to get work started.” Users can access the template gallery from a tab on the left-hand sidebar in…
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