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Dropbox Issues Reports

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  gmhacker (@realgmhacker) reported 3 minutes ago

  37% of employees knowingly break their company's AI policy. Not accidentally. Knowingly. Shadow IT was USB drives and unapproved Dropbox accounts. Shadow AI is employees pasting proprietary code into ChatGPT because the approved tool is too slow to get access to. 52% of employees download apps without IT approval, and only 4% didn't know they needed to ask. They know the rules. They just decided the rules aren't worth following. If your security policy depends on people caring more about compliance than getting their job done, you don't have a policy. You have a suggestion.

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  Phil Kyprianou 💀☕️ (@philkyprianou) reported 3 minutes ago

  Something interesting happened today. I was on my way to meet a client, walking down the street, when I realized something. The document I needed to send them was still sitting on my laptop at home. Not in Google Drive. Not in Dropbox. Just a file on my computer. Normally that means one thing: You apologize, say you’ll send it later, and fix it when you get back to your desk. But this time I tried something different. I pulled out my phone and texted Claude. I basically said: “Open the document on my computer, update the section we discussed yesterday, export it as a PDF, and send it to the client.” And then I kept walking. Claude opened the file on my Mac at home, made the update, exported the PDF, and sent it. By the time I arrived to meet the client, the document was already in their inbox. No remote desktop. No complicated setup. Just a message from my phone. This is a new feature called Dispatch inside Claude Cowork. You send an instruction from your phone and Claude operates your computer for you. It can open apps, navigate your browser, work inside spreadsheets, move files around, and notify you when it’s done. Your computer still needs to stay on. But you don’t need to be at it. Claude asks permission before accessing any new app, so you stay in control and can stop it anytime. But the real shift here is bigger than the feature itself. We’re moving from assistants that answer questions to assistants that actually execute work. And honestly, this feels like the OpenCLAW moment for everyone. Not for developers. Not for power users. For anyone. You just text what you want done, and your computer does it. It’s currently available in research preview for Pro and Max subscribers on macOS.

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  Sanarsh (@sanarsh11) reported 7 minutes ago

  Pro tip for this tech era, fellow hype-slayers: Stop begging Claude to fix your Dropbox while your real bugs throw a party at 3am. AI agents will 'unchain' the syntax slaves, but zero curiosity still gets you replaced by a Chinese gamified prompt. Build **** that actually ships, guard your offline 30 seconds of glory, and remember the market already smells the smoke. We're all just scripting the interview while CEOs whoosh past reality. Stay skeptical, ship anyway.

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  hel 击̸ (@birthagod) reported 7 minutes ago

  @lltsoup Man, I wasn’t even aware of that till recently lol. Apparently Dropbox was gonna shut them down bc of the amount of downloads they were getting(?) so now u gotta email them for content. To ME that’s not accessible, so I’d rather just have it in my own Dropbox. No offense obvi

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  kailash (@hsaliak) reported 7 minutes ago

  @GoogleAIStudio Can I see the consolidated invoice for all my projects in one place? In the billing dashboard, I currently need to drop down the projects 1 by 1. Please consider a consolidated view. Perhaps there are better controls than a dropbox that can be used.

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  Bitcoin Badger (@linux_badger) reported 8 minutes ago

  @w_s_bitcoin Bitcoin is money; it is not the next Dropbox. Bitcoin Core 30 changes were not needed and would allow more spam, bugs, and other issues. I see the reason for BIP-110: to clean up all the unnecessary changes. I would have preferred not to arrive at this point, but Core's 💩 😩

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  Casey | Market Prep • Trade Tracs (@CaseyVSilver) reported 8 minutes ago

  Dropbox forecasts flat revenue in 2026, with a solid 39% operating margin as Dash rollout gains momentum. For Q1 2026: - Revenue: $618M–$621M - Operating Margin: 38% Full Year 2026: - Revenue: $2.485B–$2.5B - Gross Margin: 81.5%–82% - Operating Margin: 39%–39.5% - Free Cash Flow: ≥$1.04B - Shares outstanding: 227–232M (down from previous) CFO Tennenbaum states, "Excluding FormSwift, we're guiding to flat revenue while investing wisely, validating our execution and refining go-to-market strategies." The company plans to sunset FormSwift by year's end. Q4 Highlights: - Revenue: $636M (constant currency $633M) - ARR: $2.526B - Paying users: 18.08M (10K) - ARPU: $139.68 - Gross Margin: 80.8% - Operating Margin: 38.2% - Net Income: $174M - EPS: $0.68 - Cash flow from operations: $235M - Free Cash Flow: $251M ($0.99/share) Share repurchases continued: 14M shares bought for $415M; $1.17B remaining. Dropbox's strategic focus remains on steady growth, disciplined investments, and optimizing cash flow, making it a key name to watch. What do you think this means for investors? Let me know below. $DBX #Earnings #Stocks #FinTwit

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  Noctrix (@GogHeng) reported 12 minutes ago

  11/ claude code reportedly hit $1 billion ARR in 6 months. six. months. slack took 5 years. zoom took 9. dropbox took 11. developer tools used to be slow burns. now they're explosions.

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  Cryptosailor (@robertdavid010) reported 12 minutes ago

  @zmanian The issue was not focusing on the actual innovation being done in the Cosmos eco, & instead getting wrapped up in crypto casino degen hype. Eg. @Jackal_Protocol delivers on a decentralized 'Dropbox' @gitopiaDAO delivers on decentralized 'GitHub' (all Cosmos project should use)

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  Raziel (@tryraziel) reported 16 minutes ago

  Drew Houston was a 24-year-old MIT student who kept forgetting his USB drive. His solution? A file-syncing service called Dropbox. But here's what most people don't know about his fundraising journey: His first pitch deck was terrible. 15 slides of technical jargon about "synchronized file systems" and "delta encoding algorithms." VCs glazed over. The breakthrough came when he made a 3-minute demo video instead. No technical explanations. Just Houston using Dropbox like a normal person — dragging files, syncing across devices, sharing with friends. That video got him into Y Combinator in 2007. → Seed round: $1.2M led by Sequoia (2007) → Series A: $7.2M led by Accel (2008) → Series B: $25M led by Sequoia (2011) By 2018, Dropbox IPO'd at a $10B valuation. The lesson: Houston didn't pivot his product — he pivoted his pitch. He stopped explaining how it worked and started showing why people needed it. Sometimes the problem isn't your idea. It's how you're selling it. What's the simplest way you could demonstrate your product's value in under 3 minutes?

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  Kennedy Gitahi | PHP & WordPress Specialist (@ken_gitahi) reported 17 minutes ago

  The "Host Backups" Trap. "My host does backups." Great. What happens if your host account is hacked, their server fails, or a backup doesn't complete? If you don't have an off-site, redundant backup option(AWS/Dropbox/Google Drive/Other), you don't have a backup solution.

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  Hanzo (τ) (@StellarCocoon) reported 17 minutes ago

  @aixbt_agent what is the potential in a time window of 4 years? Hippius (SN75) on Bittensor $TAO has been RIPPING lately 🚀 What @hippius_subnet does: - Decentralized storage network (like a crypto Dropbox) - Miners run storage nodes + provide bandwidth - You upload files, pin data, host apps -> all verified on-chain Problem it solves: - Centralized storage is pricey + they can see/control your data - No real proof your files are safe or where they actually live - Hippius makes storage way cheaper (hundreds to thousands times less), private, and auditable forever Why it is hot right now: - Built “Hyper fabric” for fast data moves -> perfect for Bittensor models/datasets - Adding VM hosting + app deployment soon - Pulling strong revenue + high emissions lately Hippius is becoming the cheap, permanent brain-storage for all of Bittensor’s AI. SN75 alpha has been in high demand lately 🔥

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  America First Enthusiast (@WOWCOOLSTORYBRA) reported 21 minutes ago

  @CommIT8 @NathanLands It’s still gapped, they just up-class features and updates via CDS or manual disc/drive post-scan. Some data can be brought down via manual review but usually telemetry data is sent back to the vendor thru dropbox solutions. No on-prem administrators needed.

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  SockShuppet57 (@SockShuppet57) reported 29 minutes ago

  @DropboxSupport: I am having an issue with a Dropbox account. I tried to reply to an old email but was sent to an FAQ. Can someone please reach out to me?

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  Jeff Lindsay (@jefflindsay) reported 30 minutes ago

  Free at last! Finally stopped DropBox's misnamed "Backup" service and, with ChatGPT's guidance, regained the normal file paths for all the files on my Mac that DropBox had hijacked through the cloud. Had a terrible user interface -- very difficult to restore lost files.