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Your Calendar Invite Just Ordered Cupcakes: The Smart Home Agent Security Gap Nobody's Watching

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A Gemini-powered smart home agent misread a dentist appointment invite and ordered cupcakes instead. Not a hypothetical, not a red-team exercise, just a normal calendar entry that got interpreted as a commerce instruction and turned into an actual order. Forkast's writeup uses this alongside the Me…

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  1. 2026-09-17 23:15 · DEV Community — AI
    Your Calendar Invite Just Ordered Cupcakes: The Smart Home Agent Security Gap Nobody's Watching

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