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Google released an AI agent that can act for you while your device is off. Google's own onboarding warned it might spend your money without asking.
Gemini Spark goes live as a cloud agent, a CISA contractor's leaked AWS GovCloud keys stay valid 48 hours after Krebs calls, Maine's local-moratorium patchwork takes over what the legislature couldn't pass, and the FBI puts a $2.3B price tag on AI voice-clone scams.
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Read the full analysis on Substack ›1. Google released an AI agent that can act for you while your device is off. Google's own onboarding warned it might spend your money without asking.
If you sign up for Google AI Ultra this week, an AI agent will start reading your Gmail and Calendar on a Google server you do not control.
2. The agency that tells you how to lock down your cloud just got caught with admin keys to three of its own GovCloud servers in a public GitHub repo.
CISA is the federal agency whose entire job is telling US organizations, including yours, how to lock down their cloud.
krebsonsecurity.com: CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on Github
3. Maine's statewide data center pause died on a veto in April. Today the towns are stitching their own patchwork together.
If you live in a town that anyone in the country is currently scouting for a data center, the legal playbook now exists in public, and it does not require your governor to play along.
4. The FBI says AI voice clones have already taken $2.3 billion from elderly Americans this year. One in four Americans has gotten one of those calls.
If you have a parent or grandparent on the phone today, the cheapest thing you can do for them this week is the family safe word; the FBI's number says about $2.3 billion of US elder loss has already been booked this year before the scam ever sees a regulator. Action this week:…
cnbc.com: AI-powered scam calls are getting more convincing and more common