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Google engineering senior vice president Urs Hölzle emailed staff about focusing on efficiency. Google plans to reduce its ratio of site reliability engineers to developers by using automation. Some have interpreted this as an impending layoff, according to a source familiar with the matter. Google will be focusing on efficiency this year “given the economic…
Google’s Project Zero team discovered multiple security flaws with Samsung Galaxy smartphones that could allow hackers to target devices easily.All a hacker would need is the victim’s phone number, which can be used to compromise the phone without the user knowing anything is wrong.“Tests conducted by Project Zero confirm that those four vulnerabilities allow an…
A SQLite extension which loads a Google Sheet as a virtual table. Tested Platform SQLite 3.39.2 Rust 1.62.1-aarch64-apple-darwin macOS 12.5 (Monterey) on Apple M1 MAX Getting Started Setup Google Cloud Create a Project Log in to the Google Cloud console. Go to the Manage resources page. On the Select organization drop-down list at the top…
We’re going to replace all the middle manager jobs with AI! — Google will bring generative AI to Workspace, but a public launch sounds far off. Ron Amadeo – Mar 14, 2023 5:52 pm UTC This “help me write” box is the jumping off point to have an AI do your office work for you.…
Google Translate on the web can now convert text from images. It uses the same tech as the AR Translate tool for Google Lens, which performs real-time translations on smartphones. You’ll find the option on the Google Translate website, where you’ll see a new Images tab at the top. After uploading a photo or screenshot…
Accelerating MapsLast year I described Protomaps Mantle, a commercial solution for self hosting planet-scale maps without running any servers. It’s built on top of the open, cloud optimized PMTiles format, and adds the option of a content delivery network in front to accelerate map tiles to users anywhere in the world.The code components of Mantle…
This totally sounds like something Elon Musk would do at Twitter — New directive gives Googlers ‘months’ to build AI into existing products. Ron Amadeo – Mar 9, 2023 8:06 pm UTC Enlarge / The Google integration monster rises with a new face. Years ago, circa 2011, Google was in a panic. Facebook was on…
👋 Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. We cover one out of five topics in yesterday’s subscriber-only The Scoop issue. To get full newsletters twice a week, subscribe here.On 22 February 2023, Google announced its coding competitions are coming to an end:The visual that accompanied the announcement…
Ex-Google engineers developed a conversational AI chatbot years ago, per The Wall Street Journal. But Google execs thwarted their efforts to release it to the public due to safety concerns. Google is now racing to catch up with Microsoft’s AI and plans to release its AI chatbot this year. Loading Something is loading. Thanks for…
An unusual topic for this blog, but worth boosting to a larger audience: Google Groups is dying. Its epitaph is not yet inscribed on the Killed by Google website, but the end is easily seen from here (although it should also be noted its death was called as early as 13 years ago). The deficiencies…
PaLM-E: An Embodied Multimodal Language Model Abstract Large language models have been demonstrated to perform complex tasks. However, enabling general inference in the real world, e.g. for robotics problems, raises the challenge of grounding. We propose embodied language models to directly incorporate real-world continuous sensor modalities into language models and thereby establish the link between…
Let’s start with a hypothetical: If I asked you to download a piece of open source software, what would you do? Chances are you’d open your browser, go to Google, and type in the name of the software. Then you’d proceed to click on the first official-looking link you saw, even if it’s an ad.…
Police make requests for social media user data to aid prosecution after a crime has been committed. Sometimes, the crime is abortion and social apps are turning over user chat logs and search history. Loading Something is loading. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you’re on the go.…
Google has begun the process of bringing Chrome’s full Blink browser engine to iOS against current App Store rules, and now we have our first look at the test browser in action. Last month, Google quietly unveiled a new effort to port the Blink browser engine — used by Chrome and other Chromium-based browsers like…
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Google addressed more than 2,900 security vulnerabilities in its products and platforms last year, awarding more than $12 million in bug bounty rewards to researchers in a record-breaking cash storm.The total well outpaces last year’s total of $8.5 million in rewards paid.According to the tech behemoth’s annual “Vulnerability Reward Program” (VRP) report, several VRP segments…
Link copied to clipboard After 20 years, Google’s Coding Competitions come to a close with a final round. By: The Coding Competitions Team Remember 2003? Before Chrome, Google Calendar, Android, and YouTube? When we carefully cleaned up our saved emails because GMail and its gigabyte of storage hadn’t arrived? Two decades ago – Google launched…
For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emailsSign up to our free breaking news emailsA major step has been made towards using quantum computers for practical applications, according to the Google engineers behind the breakthrough.Researchers say they have moved towards building a functioning and…
Why weren’t things this way to begin with? Spam is manageable as long as it’s limited to your physical mailbox and your email inbox, but the instant it shows up on a connected calendar or planning app, it graduates from nuisance to aggravation. Google Calendar is one of the best calendar apps around, but a…
The cert petition was filed in April of last year, and between then and now, AI has absolutely exploded. I don’t think the Supreme Court had the application of Section 230 to generative AIs like ChatGPT and Microsoft’s AI chatbot Bing in mind when it took these cases. But whatever it decides will have huge…
This program is designed to provide automated responses to questions in a web form. It uses a natural language processing algorithm to identify the most relevant response to the question, and then adds the response to the form. This was made with the purpose of demonstrating how AI can be mis-used to taint data, although…
Since launching Google Workspace in October 2020, we’ve delivered hundreds of new features to fuel secure collaboration from anywhere, including more than 300 in 2022 alone. The updates range from improvements to our world-class security and reliability that are required by our largest customers, to tools that increase the simplicity and helpfulness desired by smaller…
This post was brought to you by my 25 megabit Comcast connection — The once-dormant service is rolling out 5Gbps service to a small group of cities. Ron Amadeo – Feb 15, 2023 6:33 pm UTC Google Last year Google Fiber announced it was kind of coming back to life. For years, the service—which had…
As the saying goes, “it’s hard to make predictions, especially about the future.” Some organizations find it challenging to predict what cloud resources they’ll need in months or years ahead. Every organization is on its own unique cloud journey. To help, we’re developing new ways for customers to consume and pay for Google Cloud services.…
Google CEO Sundar PichaiGetty ImagesGoogle execs understand that the company’s artificial intelligence search tool Bard isn’t always accurate in how it responds to queries. At least some of the onus is falling on employees to fix the wrong answers.Prabhakar Raghavan, Google’s vice president for search, asked staffers in an email on Wednesday to help the…
What ails Google. And how it can turn things around.“There must be some other way out of here, said the joker to the thiefThere’s too much confusion, I can’t get no relief”I joined Google just before the pandemic when the company I had co-founded, AppSheet, was acquired by Google Cloud. The acquiring team and executives…
Losing to Bing is truly a low point — After Google’s embarrassing event last week, employees take aim at CEO Sundar Pichai. Ron Amadeo – Feb 13, 2023 8:39 pm UTC Enlarge / Google’s corporate headquarters. When Google’s ChatGPT competitor event was announced for last week, we wrote that it seemed like a rush job…
Whether it is botched and haphazard layoffs, anti-trust regulators baying for its blood, or opportunistic saber-rattling by long-time rival Microsoft and its outsourced AI unit, OpenAI — 2023 has been a rough year for one of the biggest companies in Silicon Valley. Google, the company with $200 billion in revenues, suddenly seems to be under…
Shares for Google’s parent company, Alphabet, dropped 9% Wednesday after its AI chatbot, Bard, gave an incorrect answer. Dan Kitwood/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Dan Kitwood/Getty Images Shares for Google’s parent company, Alphabet, dropped 9% Wednesday after its AI chatbot, Bard, gave an incorrect answer. Dan Kitwood/Getty Images Google’s parent company, Alphabet, lost $100…
Google’s search engine boss said AI chatbots can give “convincing” but “fictitious” answers. Prabhakar Raghavan told Welt am Sonntag it’s considering how to integrate Bard with Google search. Google felt the “urgency” to release its chatbot Bard to the public, he said. Loading Something is loading. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in…
This week Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google, announced that his company’s internet search engine — the way the vast majority of humans interact with a near-total corpus of human knowledge — is about to change. Enter a query, and you’ll get more than pages and pages of links, along with a few suggested answers.…
Updated Mozilla is planning for the day when Apple will no longer require its competitors to use the WebKit browser engine in iOS. Mozilla conducted similar experiments that never went anywhere years ago but in October 2022 posted an issue in the GitHub repository housing the code for the iOS version of Firefox that includes…
It’s official: Google is working on a ChatGPT competitor named Bard. Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, announced the project in a blog post today, describing the tool as an “experimental conversational AI service” that will answer users’ queries and take part in conversations. The software will be available to a group of “trusted testers” today, says…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai told employees Monday the company is going to need all hands on deck to test Bard, its new ChatGPT rival. He also said Google will soon be enlisting help from partners to test an application programming interface, or API, that would let others access the same underlying technology.The internal memo came…
ChatGPT, the automated text generation system from OpenAI, has taken the world by storm in the two months since its public beta release but that time alone in the spotlight is quickly coming to an end. Google announced on Monday that its long-rumored chatbot AI project is in fact real and very much on the…
A man walks through Google offices on January 25, 2023 in New York City.Leonardo Munoz | Corbis News | Getty ImagesGoogle is testing new artificial intelligence-powered chat products that are likely to influence a future public product launch. They include a new chatbot and a potential way to integrate it into a search engine.The Alphabet…
What happens when… This repository is an attempt to answer the age-old interview question “What happens when you type google.com into your browser’s address box and press enter?” Except instead of the usual story, we’re going to try to answer this question in as much detail as possible. No skipping out on anything. This is…
Cloud giants Google and Amazon Web Services’ latest financial results indicate the cloud computing adoption is finally slowing as customers press pause amid the economic downturn taking place across much of the West. Amazon Group’s overall sales grew 9 percent to reach $149.2 billion in the fourth quarter, while its AWS sales increased 20 percent…
Google’s delayed disposal of third-party cookies – data stored in web browsers for advertising and analytics, among other things – will kick off the third quarter of 2024. The ad biz intends to press ahead with its Topics API for interest-based advertising, despite being told by the Technical Architecture Group (TAG) of the World Wide…
Last night Google Fi disclosed a data breach to customers that, for at least one person, turned out to be a far more serious situation involving their phone number being moved to another device and seeing accounts hacked in real-time. Google Fi’s disclosure of this recent data breach told customers that a “limited amount of…
