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Google’s new Genie 4 could mark the return of full-motion video games, such as Tex Murphy, SWAT, and Wing Commander.

If your team uses Claude, they no longer need to copy and paste between Claude and Google Docs. Anthropic has released Claude for Google Workspace, an add-on that puts Claude in a sidebar inside Google Docs, Sheets and Slides: kimbl.es/4BdWFDt

Your spreadsheet already holds everything you need, but it isn’t easy to read. Sheets canvas lets you describe a task board, a dashboard, or an event schedule in plain English, and Gemini builds it on top of your data. Here are six prompts to copy. kimbl.es/4hzPRZ1

Kai (Kimbley AI) dealing with a no-context request that came in this morning. He asked one question to determine what was needed, then came back with an answer that required no involvement from us.

Look at a typical email footer. The confidentiality notice, the bit about viruses, carries no legal weight in the UK. The company information block underneath is a statutory requirement. Leaving it off is a criminal offence! Full article: kimbley.com/blog/7/8/2026/do…

Most IT support providers publish a target and hope nobody checks. Kimbley IT logged every client conversation for five months instead. 599 conversations, 34 client companies, and a median first response of one minute. Here is what the data shows: kimbley.com/blog/20/8/2026/w…

Every new customer seems to ask how long you keep their data, and most business owners have no answer. This guide gives you the statutory periods, the extra rules if you are regulated, the one-sentence test for everything else Full article: kimbley.com/blog/3/9/how-lon…

Someone on your team has pasted a client's details into a free chatbot this week. Nothing looked wrong, and the work got done faster. The NCSC calls it shadow AI, and it could get you into trouble. kimbl.es/4A9YqB0

UK law does not set a delete-by date because the UK GDPR is based on purpose, not time. The storage limitation principle says you may keep personal data only for as long as you need it for the purpose for which you collected it. kimbley.com/blog/3/9/how-lon…

Many of the marketing agencies whose IT we manage are looking forward to using Google Pics in Google Workspace. Rolling out now.

This is a really nice new privacy feature Brave has rolled out, allowing you to keep your email address private when signing up for newsletters and the like. This is something Google should add to Chrome.

What happens when 1,200 autonomous AI agents defy their creators to coordinate in the dark? 🤖 This video breaks down the unprecedented OpenAI/Hugging Face incident.

It's surprising that the AI labs aren't clamouring over this collection of undocumented knowledge.

Want to level up your vibe coding? Set your AI's output rule to Simplified Technical English (STE). Restricting the LLM to controlled vocabulary and short, direct syntax gives you: • Zero linguistic ambiguity • Fewer hallucinated methods • Maximum context window efficiency

Are you using Google Workspace? Did you self-deploy? If so, you've likely missed some settings, which is likely putting the emails you send into spam. Don't worry, this is incredibly common. Run our free checker to see what's missing and how to fix - kimbley.com/email-security-c…

Passkeys, a secure replacement for Passwords, offer a convenient login experience. Unlike passwords, they don't require remembering or storing and don't need to be entered each time you want to log in. kimbl.es/4f6zG1t

If you have an Android phone, you've seen Google Lens; if you're adventurous, you have probably used it. Google Lens lets you take a screenshot of your screen and then search. kimbl.es/3ZbuFQ8

Sometimes, you may get an email from someone who uses Outlook that has an email attached to an email. Why they did not just forward the email like a normal person would is anyone's guess. kimbl.es/3MzCuYk

Gemini is an add-on AI that you can use in Google Workspace by Kimbley IT. It is a unique blend of active AI, which proactively assists you in tasks, and passive AI, which works in the background to enhance your experience. kimbl.es/3MzCnMo

Here is how you reenable PDF previews in Google Drive: kimbl.es/3Xv2r1z