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December 9, 2021

An email lands in a student’s inbox pretending to be from an unnamed recruiter at the University of Toronto. It claims to have received an application…

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July 5, 2019

Every month or so, an email appears in Stephen Cook’s inbox from someone claiming to have solved one of the most important questions in computational…

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March 22, 2018

Our online accounts, from email to banking to social media, contain some of our most important, private information – and there’s a lot of it,…

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February 23, 2018

“Want to start a movement?” That was the subject line for an email Roxanne Wright received from her friend and colleague Clare Gilderdale. “I…

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May 5, 2017

Access to UTmail+ email accounts used by students and alumni was restored Thursday morning after an outage that began on Saturday. “We worked…

November 20, 2015

Students are focussed on the finish line for exams and final projects at this time of year – so when email reminders for course evaluations start…

May 6, 2014

Media worldwide lit up recently with the news that France had banned work-related emails after 6 p.m. Although it turned out there was no such law,…

November 6, 2013

Last fall, first-year student Helen Rudnicki received an intriguing email at her brand new utoronto address. Signed by librarian Jacqueline Whyte…