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Some Google Home Speakers caught downloading hundreds of gigs of data

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Some Google Home Speakers caught downloading hundreds of gigs of data

Some Google Home Speaker owners are currently experiencing an issue in which hundreds of gigabytes of data are being continuously downloaded to their device in the background. The bug, reported by 9to5Google and several Reddit users over…

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