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Infra
How Google Moved Its Finance Data Without Downtime
Google's engineers built a new command-line tool, Antigravity, to automate the complex process of migrating databases to Spanner. The tool manages dual-writing to old and new systems, ensuring zero downtime for critical financial applications.
Ashish Kale ·
Infra
Google Cloud Simplifies Its Toughest Security Control
Google Cloud has updated its VPC Service Controls with new policy intelligence tools. This helps security and IT teams more easily understand, troubleshoot, and enforce the digital perimeters that protect their sensitive data from exfiltration.
Ashish Kale ·
AI
Google Just Made Building Fast AI Apps Cheaper
Google has launched Gemini 1.5 Flash, a new AI model optimized for speed and efficiency. It offers lower costs and faster response times, making it ideal for developers building high-volume applications that need quick, reliable performance.
Neeraj Dhiman ·
Data
Google's New AI Agents Automate Database Chores
Google Cloud has launched new AI agents to automate complex database tasks like setup, troubleshooting, and performance tuning. This helps IT teams save time and reduce errors when managing critical data infrastructure on services like AlloyDB and Spanner.
Taranpreet Singh ·
Infra
Google AI Now Plans Your Cloud Migration in Minutes
Google Cloud's Migration Center now uses AI to create rapid cost assessments for moving to the cloud. This new feature automates a complex process that previously took weeks of manual analysis, helping teams modernize infrastructure faster.
Ashish Kale ·
Tech
Google Adds a New Watchdog App to Android
Google is quietly installing a new system app, Android Pulse, on phones. It runs in the background to continuously monitor other apps for misbehavior, adding a new layer of real-time security to the platform.
Taranpreet Singh ·
AI
Google's Plan to Buy Employee Data for AI Stalls
Google's $10 million deal to buy Spirit Airlines' internal data—including emails and code—to train AI has been stalled. A flight attendants' union argues the deal's privacy terms fail to protect employee data, only customer information.
Neeraj Dhiman ·
AI
You Can Now Tell Google's AI What to Show You
Google is adding a new AI feature to its Discover feed that lets you describe the content you want to see. This signals a shift from passive personalization to active, conversational content curation for users.
Neeraj Dhiman ·
Tech
Google Gives Publishers a New Follow Feature
Google is rolling out a 'Follow' button for publishers. This lets readers mark a source as preferred, boosting its visibility in Search, Discover, and News to help counter falling traffic from AI-driven search answers.
Navdeep Kaur Mahal ·
Infra
Google Cloud Now Protects Keys From Quantum Attacks
Google Cloud's Key Management Service now lets you import your own encryption keys using a quantum-safe method. This protects sensitive data from the future threat of quantum computers powerful enough to break today's standard encryption.
Ashish Kale ·
Data
Google's Postgres Database Now Searches 10 Billion Vectors
Google's AlloyDB now supports searching up to 10 billion vectors, a massive jump in scale. This allows developers to build enterprise-grade AI applications on a fully managed, PostgreSQL-compatible database without hitting previous performance limits.
Taranpreet Singh ·
Infra
Google Cloud Now Uses AI to Fix Data Pipelines
Google Cloud's serverless Apache Spark service now uses AI to automatically diagnose and suggest fixes for failed data jobs. This helps teams spend less time debugging infrastructure and more time building data pipelines.
Ashish Kale ·
AI
Google's New AI Model Isn't a Black Box
Researchers found Google's new DiffusionGemma AI is not a complete black box. Its step-by-step reasoning process can be interpreted, a positive sign for the safety, monitoring, and future enterprise adoption of diffusion-based text models.
Neeraj Dhiman ·
Infra
How Google BigQuery Makes AI Agents More Trustworthy
Google Cloud has updated BigQuery with graph data capabilities. This helps AI agents understand the complex relationships within business data, leading to more accurate and trustworthy insights than what's possible with simple tables.
Ashish Kale ·
Infra
Google Now Uses AI Agents to Test Your Apps
Google Cloud launched a new platform that uses AI agents to automate mobile app testing on real devices. This aims to simplify the complex process of ensuring apps work across thousands of different phone models, evolving from Firebase Test Lab.
Ashish Kale ·
Tech
Gmail is Dropping its Unified Inbox Feature
Google is removing the "Gmailify" feature, which lets you connect other email accounts to your Gmail inbox. This change will force many users to find new ways to manage multiple email addresses from a single application.
Taranpreet Singh ·
AI
Mirendil Bets $100M on Google for Self-Improving AI
AI startup Mirendil is spending over $100 million on Google Cloud to build self-improving AI systems. The deal highlights the massive computing power now required for next-generation AI research aimed at accelerating scientific discovery.
Neeraj Dhiman ·
Tech
SkiaSharp Now Aligns Directly with Google's Skia
The popular .NET graphics library SkiaSharp has launched version 4.0. Its new release schedule now directly matches Google's underlying Skia project, giving developers faster access to the latest features and bug fixes for cross-platform apps.
Navdeep Kaur Mahal ·
AI
Google AI Teaches Robots to See and Collaborate
Google DeepMind has released Gemini Robotics ER 2, a new AI model that allows robots to understand video, reason about tasks, and collaborate with each other. This could significantly accelerate automation in complex, real-world environments.
Neeraj Dhiman ·
Infra
Microsoft and Google Clash Over AI's Control Point
Microsoft's and Google's CEOs have published competing visions for AI's future. Microsoft bets on controlling the cloud infrastructure, while Google believes the most powerful AI model itself will be the ultimate control point.
Ashish Kale ·
Infra
Old Pixel Phones Power a New Private Cloud
Google and UC San Diego are building a private cloud using 2,000 retired Pixel phones. This project explores a sustainable, low-cost way to create computing infrastructure and reduce electronic waste from discarded smartphones.
Ashish Kale ·
Infra
Run Your AI Models 8x Faster on Google Cloud
Google has improved Ray Serve on Google Kubernetes Engine, boosting throughput by up to 5x and cutting latency by 8x. This makes it much more efficient to scale and serve large language models for production applications.
Ashish Kale ·
AI
DeepMind Borrows Cybersecurity Playbook for AI Control
Google DeepMind released a new AI control roadmap that treats AI risks like cybersecurity threats. The framework uses familiar concepts like threat modeling to help developers build guardrails for increasingly powerful AI agents.
Neeraj Dhiman ·
Infra
Google Tool Finds Network Issues Across Clouds
Google Cloud launched Cloud Network Insights, a new tool for monitoring network performance. It gives teams a single view to troubleshoot issues across Google Cloud, other clouds like AWS and Azure, and on-premise data centers.
Ashish Kale ·
Tech
Google Chrome Is About to Break Older Ad Blockers
Google is removing the last workaround for older Chrome extensions. This change will permanently disable popular ad blockers built on Manifest V2, forcing developers and users to adopt the newer, more restrictive Manifest V3 platform.
Taranpreet Singh ·
Tech
Google's Hidden Flight Simulator Is Now in Your Browser
Google has made its long-hidden flight simulator, a feature of the desktop Google Earth app since 2007, available directly in web browsers. This makes the powerful tool accessible to anyone without needing a separate download or installation.
Taranpreet Singh ·
Infra
Lombardy Adds 200% Data Center Tax
The Lombardy region in Italy has introduced a new policy that can increase construction charges for data centers by up to 200%. The higher fees apply specifically to facilities built on green or agricultural land, reflecting a growing pushback against the environmental impact of tech infrastructure.
Ashish Kale ·
Tech
Open source experiments shaped JPEG XL
Google details the development of JPEG XL, highlighting how open-source experiments and collaboration were crucial. The new image format aims to offer better compression and features than existing formats like JPEG, PNG, and GIF, building on lessons from past projects like WebP and Guetzli.
Navdeep Kaur Mahal ·
Tech
Developers Seek Google Search Alternatives
A discussion among tech professionals highlights growing dissatisfaction with Google Search's quality, citing a rise in SEO spam and less useful results. This has led many to actively explore and adopt alternative search engines to improve productivity and find more accurate information.
Navdeep Kaur Mahal ·
Tech
Euro-Office Offers Open Source Google Docs Rival
A new open-source web office suite, Euro-Office, has launched its first version. It allows companies to self-host their own office tools, providing a direct alternative to services like Google Workspace for greater data sovereignty and control.
Navdeep Kaur Mahal ·
Tech
DuckDuckGo Sees Surge After Google AI
Following Google's rollout of AI Overviews, privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo experienced a nearly 28% increase in visits. This data suggests a notable portion of users may be actively seeking alternatives to AI-integrated search results, signaling a potential shift in user preferences and the search market.
Navdeep Kaur Mahal ·
Security
Attackers Abuse Google DoubleClick Domain
A new malspam campaign is using Google's DoubleClick domain to bypass security filters and deliver a remote access trojan (RAT). By routing traffic through the trusted Google service first, attackers can evade detection before redirecting victims to their own malicious infrastructure.
Neeraj Dhiman ·
Infra
Google Cloud Simplifies Maintenance Management
Google Cloud is introducing a new way to manage planned maintenance. Instead of tracking individual resource updates across many projects, teams can now view maintenance events in the context of their business services. This change aims to reduce operational overhead for platform and SRE teams.
Ashish Kale ·
Infra
Find Your Most Expensive Data in Google Cloud
Google Cloud launched a new feature called Storage Insights. It provides detailed reports on data access and usage patterns, helping companies manage massive storage footprints, cut costs, and boost security.
Ashish Kale ·
Tech
Google Chrome Is Disabling Ad Blocker Workarounds
Google is ending workarounds used by popular ad blockers like uBlock Origin in its Chrome browser. The change, part of the Manifest V3 transition, means many content-blocking extensions will become significantly less effective on Chrome, Edge, and Opera.
Navdeep Kaur Mahal ·
Infra
How Google Runs A/B Tests
Google has detailed its internal system for managing A/B tests across its global services. The framework standardizes experiment assignment, logging, and configuration to ensure consistent measurement, reduce conflicts, and improve the reliability of data-driven decisions for its vast product portfolio.
Ashish Kale ·
Security
Major Developer Malware Network Disrupted
CrowdStrike, Google, and the Shadowserver Foundation have successfully disrupted the GlassWorm malware campaign. This operation dismantled the command-and-control infrastructure used in a persistent software supply chain attack that targeted developers with malicious packages and extensions since at least early 2025.
Neeraj Dhiman ·
AI
Google's New AI Model Generates Text Four Times Faster
Google has released DiffusionGemma, a new type of AI model that generates text up to four times faster than current methods. This new architecture could significantly lower the cost and improve the speed of AI-powered applications.
Neeraj Dhiman ·
Security
Google Fights AI Threats With Its Own AI
Google has launched Google AI Threat Defense, an automated system to find and stop AI-powered cyberattacks. The new tool helps security teams respond faster to sophisticated threats before they can damage a business.
Neeraj Dhiman ·
Security
Google Fights AI Deepfake Scam Calls
Google is introducing a new feature to detect fake calls that use AI deepfake technology. As scammers increasingly spoof trusted numbers and impersonate people, this tool aims to protect users from sophisticated social engineering attacks by identifying and flagging potential AI-generated voices during calls.
Neeraj Dhiman ·