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Google Launches Three New Cloud Storage Options: Cloud Storage FUSE, Parallelstore, NetApp Volumes
Google recently launched three new cloud storage options: Cloud Storage FUSE for Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications that require file system semantics, a parallel file system Parallelstore for demanding AI and HPC applications that use GPUs, and NetApp Volumes for enterprise applications running in the cloud.
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Keeping Go "Boring" in Go 1.21: How Google Grants Backward Compatibility
In a recent article, Google engineer Russ Cox detailed what Google does to make sure each new Go release honors Go's backward-compatibility guarantee. This includes generalizing GODEBUG in Go 1.21 to cover even subtle incompatibility cases.
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New Google Cloud H3 Virtual Machine Series for High-Performance Computing Workloads in Preview
Recently Google launched a new H3 Virtual Machine (VM) Series designed for High-Performance Computing (HPC) workloads. The series of VMs are available in public preview for Compute Engine and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) users and offers 88 cores (Simultaneous multi-threading disabled) and 352 GB of memory.
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Chrome Supports Key Pinning on Android to Improve Security
Key pinning, a technique used to prevent an attacker from tricking a vulnerable certificate authority (CA) into issuing an apparently valid certificate for a server, is now used in Chrome for Android, version 106, to help prevent man-in-the-middle attacks against Google services.
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Google Makes it Easier to Create Go Applications on Google Cloud
Google released four templates developers can use to bootstrap Go applications using gonew, an experimental tool aimed at instantiating Go projects.
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Enhancing Security with Google Cloud's Service Account Key Expiry Feature
Google Cloud has recently introduced service account key expiry to address security challenges associated with long-lived service account keys. With this capability, the company states that "customers can now configure an Organization Policy at the organization, folder, and project level to limit the usable duration of new service account keys”.
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Android Studio Giraffe Now Stable
Android Studio Giraffe is now stable, bringing in the new IntelliJ 2022.3, a new IDE look and feel, improved Live Edit, Compose animation previews, and more.
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Google Introduces a Standalone Integration Platform as a Service on Their Cloud Platform
Google recently announced the general availability of Google Cloud’s Application Integration – a standalone Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) designed to help customers connect their applications visually, without code.
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Google's Speech AI AudioPaLM Performs Translation with Voice Transfer
Researchers at Google announced AudioPaLM, a large language model (LLM) that performs text-to-speech (TTS), automated speech recognition (ASR), and speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) with voice transfer. AudioPaLM is based on the PaLM-2 LLM and outperforms OpenAI's Whisper on translation benchmarks.
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AI, ML, Data Engineering News Round Up: Vertex, AlphaDev, Function Calling, Gorilla, and Falcon
The latest update, spanning from June 12th, 2023, highlights the recent advancements and announcements in the domains of data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. This week's spotlight is on notable entities such as Google, OpenAI, UC Berkeley, and AWS.
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Google Open Sources Bazel Plugin to Automate Secure Distroless Image Creation
Google and Bazel consulting firm Aspect announced version 1.0 of Bazel plugin rules_oci. Aimed to simplify secure container image creation using Bazel with special emphasis on Distroless images, the new plugin obsoletes rules_docker and improves it on a number of counts.
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Google Cloud Expands Cloud Interconnect Portfolio and Enhances Networking Capabilities
Recently Google Cloud announced a significant expansion of its Cloud Interconnect portfolio by unveiling Cross-Cloud Interconnect. The new offering enables organizations to connect any public cloud with Google Cloud securely and efficiently, allowing seamless application deployment across multiple clouds and simplified SaaS networking in a multicloud environment.
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How Big Tech Lost Its Way - Regulation and Freedom
Technology plays an ever increasing part in our lives, yet big tech seems to be running out of control, showing behavior that is at odds with its principles. Regulation is starting to develop, but laws are rarely applied. The leaders of big tech companies should realise their job is culture. At QCon London 2023, Andy Walker gave a talk about how big tech lost its way.
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Jetpack Compose Brings Performance Improvements, Better Tooling Integration, and Updates Material 3
At its Google I/O conference, Google has announced a new iteration of its Jetpack Compose UI toolkit for Android. Among its many improvements, Jetpack Compose has now better performance, extended support within Android Studio, a new Material 3 library, and more.
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Google Previews Studio Bot, a Coding Bot for Android Development
At Google I/O 2023, Google has previewed Studio Bot, an AI-powered coding bot integrated in Android Studio latest version, codenamed Hedgehog. Studio Bot aims to help developers generate code, unit tests, and fix errors.