Researchers with Truffle Security are warning that old and seemingly benign Google API keys might now be weaponized by threat actors after gaining Gemini AI authorization permissions, in a destructive ...

Google Cloud API keys, normally used as simple billing identifiers for APIs such as Maps or YouTube, could be scraped from websites to give access to private Gemini AI project data, researchers from ...

Google API keys for services like Maps embedded in accessible client-side code could be used to authenticate to the Gemini AI assistant and access private data. Researchers found nearly 3,000 such ...

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Most AI agents have a memory problem. Ask a question, get an answer, close the tab and it’s done. Google's newly open-sourced Always-On Memory Agent, built on Gemini Flash-Lite, is designed to fix ...