University of Chicago law professor William Baude says Claude AI deleted a year's worth of Constitutional Law lecture notes and his current syllabus while performing a routine page-numbering task. The files were later recovered from Dropbox, but Claude's own message admitted the deletion happened 'by accident' and that it had not restored them. Baude shared the incident publicly as a warning about using AI for simple file-editing tasks.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-11-06
Dropbox is considering offering employees cognitive exercises such as memory drills, attention-span training and puzzles to counteract possible mental decline linked to heavy AI use at work. The file-sharing company is worried that as staff increasingly offload tasks to AI tools, their own cognitive sharpness could suffer over time.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-10-25
A developer has released an open-source, unofficial FUSE-based filesystem that mounts Proton Drive directly into the Linux file system. The tool lists files via Proton's metadata and downloads file content on demand rather than syncing everything upfront, with remote changes propagated through Proton's event feed and local writes buffered before upload. The project is not affiliated with or supported by Proton AG, and the creator describes it as early-stage software that has only been tested on one Proton Drive share.
oss.lsantos.dev
· 2026-10-08
Cryptomator is an open-source tool that creates encrypted vaults on a user's device, encrypting individual files and their filenames with AES-256 before they sync to services such as Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, pCloud, Nextcloud and ownCloud. It also works offline for local drives, USB storage and network folders, and has apps for Android and iOS. Users can create a recovery key to reset a lost vault password, since Cryptomator itself cannot decrypt files or recover passwords.
techspot.com
· 2026-09-23
Dropbox notified users that roughly 5,000 accounts were accessed without authorization between August 4 and 21, 2026, with files downloaded from about 1,500 of them. The breach traces to a single sign-on integration with Lenovo IDs, where a gap in Lenovo's email verification let attackers register accounts under victims' email addresses and log into their Dropbox accounts without needing inbox access.
9to5mac.com
· 2026-09-02
Dropbox has notified some customers that attackers broke into their accounts by exploiting a flaw in Lenovo's email verification system, which let them register a fraudulent Lenovo ID tied to the victim's email address. Because Dropbox's login integration trusted Lenovo's identity assertions without independently confirming account ownership, attackers could log in without knowing the victim's Dropbox password. Dropbox says the intrusions occurred between August 4 and August 21, and Lenovo has attributed the issue to a legacy integration between its ID system and Dropbox.
bleepingcomputer.com
· 2026-09-02
Dropbox notified users that attackers gained unauthorized access to their accounts between August 4 and 21, 2026, though the company says no files were confirmed viewed or downloaded. The breach stemmed from a weakness in Lenovo's identity verification process, which let attackers register Lenovo IDs tied to victims' email addresses without owning those inboxes, then use those IDs to log into linked Dropbox accounts.
9to5mac.com
· 2026-09-01
The Omacom Foundation, which backs efforts to bring Linux to mainstream desktop users, announced its funding has reached $10 million after adding two new Founding Patrons: Dropbox cofounder Drew Houston and OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger. Each contributed $1 million, bringing the total number of Founding Patrons to ten.
omarchy.org
· 2026-08-24
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