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Google Calendar ambush - your 30-second fix

The Current powered by Kim Komando

WestStar Multimedia Entertainment, Inc

News, Technology, Tech News

4.6825 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2026

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

The Google invite you didn't ask for. It's skipping your inbox and going straight to your calendar. It just shows up. But here's the good news. I'll tell you how to fix it in 30 seconds.From your iPhone to your router, I have a few tips to keep you safe. Plus new research on pancreatic cancer and a landmark case found Meta and YouTube guilty of addicting kids to social media. And the age-old argument: is it Gif or Jif? The man who invented it, Steve Wilhite, weighs in. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:21.3

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0:25.4

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0:27.9

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0:33.8

The best part, you don't pay extra to speak to a human being, like some big carriers are doing now.

0:37.8

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0:43.7

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0:49.2

for only $35. Plus, get an additional $5 off for the first five months. That's consumercellular.com

0:56.7

slash Kim. Consumer cellular.com slash Kim.

1:01.6

Hey there, it's Kim. And welcome to the audio version of my Daily Tech newsletter, the current,

1:07.6

read by nearly a million people every single day. Now let's get into today's

1:11.6

newsletter for Thursday, March 26, 2026. But before we dive in, I want to tell you about something I

1:19.1

publish every single Thursday. It's called Splash of AI, and it is my second free newsletter,

1:25.1

five minutes, no jargon, just the most useful AI stuff I found that week,

1:30.7

written in plain English the way I always do. This week's issue has the exact prompt to fight a denied

1:35.9

insurance claim, how to ask for a raise using AI, a bartender who made $1 million off his own face,

1:42.0

and what whales have actually been saying to each other, I am not making

1:45.4

any of that up. Sign up free at splash of AI.com. That's splash of AI.com. Look for the water drop

1:52.3

emoji in your inbox every Thursday so you can find it easily. All right, let's start with something

1:57.9

sneaky. And I mean really sneaky, because the scam I'm about to tell you about doesn't come through your spam folder. It lands right on your calendar. Like it was always supposed to be there. Here's what's happening. By default, Google Calendar automatically adds meeting invitations to your schedule the moment they arrive. Doesn't matter if you know the sender. It just shows up. Sitting right

2:19.4

between your dentist appointment and your kid's soccer game, looking completely legitimate.

2:24.2

Scammers figured this out. They blast fake invites with titles designed to make your heart

2:28.6

skip a beat. Invoice overdue. Payment required. Account suspended. and the description has a link that looks like it

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