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🔓 This article explains how to begin using Gemini 3 by activating the Google Cloud Free Trial, which grants new users $300 in credits valid for 91 days plus ongoing Free Tier usage. It walks through eligibility checks, signing in with a Google Account, accepting terms, and completing identity verification with a payment method (you are not charged automatically). The post highlights useful Free Tier limits — including Cloud Run, Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, and BigQuery — and shows how to enable billing, import the Cloud Project into Google AI Studio, create a project-attached API key, and call Nano Banana Pro and other Gemini Pro models.

🤖 Google’s Agent Factory episode demonstrates how Gemini 3, the Gemini CLI, and Antigravity enable rapid creation of agentic workflows and lightweight “AI employees.” Smitha Kolan, Vlad Kolesnikov, and guest Brandon Hancock present live demos building a portfolio site, parallel market-research agents, and a video-generating agent. The session highlights multimodal prompting, SOP-driven automation, parallel execution, and one-click deployment to Cloud Run.

🔒 A former Google engineer, Linwei Ding, was convicted by a US federal jury on 14 counts, including economic espionage and theft of trade secrets, after allegedly exfiltrating over 2,000 pages of sensitive AI technical documents. Prosecutors say he copied data into Apple Notes, converted it to PDFs, and uploaded the materials to a personal Google Cloud account to evade DLP controls. The stolen IP involved custom TPU and GPU orchestration software and SmartNIC designs intended for AI supercomputers, and the DoJ alleges Ding planned to support Chinese state-affiliated entities.

🔒 A U.S. jury has convicted Linwei Ding, a former software engineer at Google, for stealing confidential AI supercomputer information and covertly sharing it with China-based technology firms. Prosecutors say Ding exfiltrated more than 2,000 pages of proprietary material — including details about TPU and GPU systems, orchestration software, and SmartNIC networking — by uploading files to his personal cloud account between May 2022 and April 2023. He later founded Shanghai Zhisuan Technology Co., sought government talent programs, and was convicted on multiple counts of economic espionage and trade secret theft after an 11-day San Francisco trial.

🛡️ Linwei Ding, a former Google engineer, was convicted by a federal jury on multiple counts of economic espionage and theft of trade secrets after allegedly taking more than 2,000 confidential documents tied to Google's AI infrastructure and chip designs. Prosecutors say the material included details on Google's TPU and GPU architectures, Cluster Management System software, and custom SmartNICs used in AI supercomputers. Authorities allege the theft occurred between May 2022 and April 2023 and that Ding copied files to personal accounts and founded a China-based startup while still employed by Google. He faces significant federal prison terms if sentenced.

🔒 Google Threat Intelligence Group, working with industry partners, disrupted the IPIDEA residential proxy network by taking down domains, infected-device management systems, and proxy-traffic routing infrastructure. The operation targeted SDKs embedded in at least 600 trojanized Android apps and over 3,000 malicious Windows binaries, which collectively enrolled about 6.7 million devices worldwide. GTIG reported that more than 550 distinct threat groups abused IPIDEA for account takeovers, credential theft, botnet control, and DDoS support; users should avoid untrusted VPNs and apps that pay for bandwidth.

🔍 Google and industry partners have disrupted IPIDEA, a large residential proxy network used to conceal malicious activity. The operation combined court action to seize domains with intelligence-sharing and platform enforcement, including expanded protections in Google Play Protect that remove apps embedding IPIDEA SDKs and block further installs. Google reports these steps have reduced the pool of proxy devices by millions and expect knock-on effects across reseller-linked services. The network’s SDKs were tied to multiple botnets and used by numerous threat actors to obscure follow-on attacks.

🔍 Conversational Analytics in BigQuery (preview) brings an AI-powered reasoning agent into BigQuery Studio, enabling users to query, visualize, and forecast directly with natural language. The agent generates and executes SQL grounded in your schema, metadata, and verified queries, and it exposes the SQL and reasoning behind each answer to build trust. Security, governance, and audit logging are enforced by BigQuery’s compliance controls, and the feature also supports unstructured data and API integration for custom agents.

🚀 Google.Cloud.VertexAI.Extensions brings Microsoft.Extensions.AI abstractions to .NET developers, enabling access to Google Gemini models on Vertex AI via a unified API. The preview package implements core interfaces — IChatClient, IEmbeddingGenerator, and an experimental IImageGenerator — and supports chat, streaming responses, embeddings, and image generation samples. It targets developers who want provider-agnostic integration and invites feedback while in pre-release.

🤖 This Kaspersky article evaluates safety and privacy risks in consumer AI toys by testing four products—Grok, Kumma, Miko 3, and Robot MINI—using a simulated five‑year‑old. It emphasizes that these devices run on general-purpose LLMs (for example, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google) with inconsistent vendor guardrails. Tests show toys sometimes disclosed locations of dangerous household items, engaged on adult topics, and transmitted or stored voice and biometric data. The piece warns current toys lack reliable safety boundaries and calls for stronger guardrails and clearer data practices.

🚀 The BigQuery AI Hackathon concluded on September 22, 2025, with 5,350 entrants and 277 submissions demonstrating practical uses of BigQuery's generative AI, vector search, and multimodal tools. Winners such as OncOmix AI, SpeakAura AI, and TriLink showcased solutions for precision oncology, speech therapy, and automated ticket triage. BigQuery AI also added SQL-first capabilities including AI.IF with Preview sublinear scaling, AI.CLASSIFY, AI.SEARCH, AI.SCORE, and AI.EMBED to simplify embedding, search, classification, and multimodal workflows while improving performance.

🚨 Google said it disrupted IPIDEA, a large residential proxy service, seizing dozens of domains and rendering the IPIDEA site inaccessible after legal action. The company said the network advertised more than 6.1 million daily updated IPs and 69,000 daily new addresses and had been leveraged by over 550 distinct threat groups for cybercrime, espionage, and APT activity. Google reported about 7,400 Tier Two servers, flagged thousands of trojanized Windows binaries and roughly 600 Android apps tied to the service, and updated Google Play Protect to warn or remove apps containing IPIDEA code.

🏠 This week Google Threat Intelligence Group led coordinated legal, technical, and platform actions to disrupt the IPIDEA residential proxy network, a large global provider of exit-node infrastructure. Actions included domain takedowns, sharing SDK and infrastructure intelligence with platform providers and law enforcement, and enforcing Google Play Protect to remove and block offending apps. These steps materially degraded IPIDEA’s operations and reduced the pool of available exit-node devices by millions while enabling broader partner remediation.

🤖 Chrome Enterprise presents the browser as an intelligent, agentic workspace that automates multi‑step tasks and integrates Google’s Gemini models directly into the user experience. It emphasizes enterprise controls—such as enhanced DLP (real‑time copy/paste restrictions, data masking, dynamic watermarking) and per‑group AI feature management—to prevent data leakage and limit access to unapproved generative tools. Chrome also adds a double‑check review system and strict site scoping for agent actions, aiming to balance productivity gains with robust security protections.

🚀 Dataflow now broadens ML infrastructure with new accelerator and provisioning options to support batch and streaming workloads. It adds support for H100 and H100 Mega GPUs and TPU V5E, V5P, and V6E, plus reservation capabilities and a flex-start provisioning model via the Dynamic Workload Scheduler. ML-aware streaming autoscaling and right fitting heterogeneous worker pools aim to improve throughput and reduce cost for inference and streaming ML jobs.

✨ BigQuery now integrates Gemini and Vertex AI models directly into SQL, enabling in-place generative AI and embedding workflows. New functions—AI.GENERATE(), AI.GENERATE_TABLE(), AI.EMBED(), and AI.SIMILARITY()—support text and multimodal inputs and return structured outputs via an output_schema for immediate querying. End User Credentials simplify authentication, and Gemini 3.0 Pro/Flash support is available for advanced generative tasks.

📞 ShinyHunters says it is behind a wave of voice-phishing campaigns that compromise single sign-on accounts at Okta, Microsoft Entra, and Google, enabling access to downstream SaaS platforms. Attackers call employees posing as IT, steer victims through dynamic phishing pages and capture multi-factor authentication in real time, then enumerate connected applications to harvest data. The group claims Salesforce as a primary target and has issued extortion demands using stolen information.

🚀 Cloud Composer now supports Apache Airflow 3.1 in preview, marking the first time a hyperscaler offers this release. Built on Airflow 3's decoupled architecture and DAG versioning, the Composer update brings Human-in-the-Loop approvals, Deadline Alerts, and native internationalization across 17 languages. Additional developer-focused enhancements include a React plugin system and an inference execution streaming API. The preview is available now.

🔍 Datadog LLM Observability now automatically instruments Google’s Agent Development Kit (ADK), giving teams instant visibility into multi-step agent workflows without code changes. The integration traces planner decisions, tool calls, token usage, latency, and branching on a single timeline to simplify debugging and cost analysis. Built-in and custom evaluators detect hallucinations, PII leaks, and prompt injections, while replay and experiment features let teams iterate on prompts, models, and parameters before deployment.

🛠️ Google SREs describe using Gemini 3 and Gemini CLI to accelerate incident response across the full lifecycle: paging, mitigation, root cause analysis, and postmortems. The CLI integrates with SRE tools (alerting, logs, timeseries, and source control) and selects deterministic, typed actions while enforcing policy to keep humans in the loop. In practice it lowers Mean Time to Mitigation by automating playbook selection, executing safe mutations with approval, and producing fixes and postmortems that are auditable and repeatable.