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OpenAI rolls out connectors for services like Dropbox and OneDrive for ChatGPT Team, Enterprise, and Edu users; MCP support is coming to Pro, Team, Enterprise (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/04/chat

ChatGPT introduces meeting recording and connectors for Google Drive, Box, and more | TechCrunch
OpenAI's ChatGPT is adding new features for business users, including integrations with different cloud services, meeting recording, and MCP connection

Da kommt jemand d'rauf, dass #Google bei #Android ohne Nutzerinteraktion Daten in deren #Cloud abschnorchelt.
Statt hier auf

They they barely even bother to make up good lies about what they are really doing any more!
"Google Confirms Most Gmail Users Must "Upgrade" Accounts"
https://friendica.rogueproject.org/display/b71a4a1e-1268-41fb-4037-83f018190121…

Sources: In 2024, Apple explored a cloud service renting its own chips to developers; it spends ~$7B per year on renting Nvidia chips from AWS and Google (Aaron Tilley/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apple-explored…

Apple Explored Launching a Cloud Service for Developers
Apple over the past few years considered launching a business renting out its servers to the millions of developers that create apps for the iPhone and Mac, in what would be a hugely ambitious move that would pit it against Amazon, Microsoft and Google. The idea discussed was for Apple to rent ...

Google’s AI Chief on the State of Artificial Intelligence (New York Times, 23 May 2025)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/podcasts/google-ai-demis-hassabi…

Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis on AGI, Innovation and More
Demis Hassabis, the chief executive of Google DeepMind, says that “we’re quite close” to human-level artificial intelligence. After that, all bets are off.

A little tip to all those folks using Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud: you're paying ~ 20x more than you need to be paying. If you claim you're using 'special services only provided by __insert name of ripoff cloud provider here__' then you've got your organisation locked into a single provider with the inability to move to a better one. Consider your options very carefully & build vendor-agnostic systems. Dependence on

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.07849 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSE_…

The Invisible Hand: Unveiling Provider Bias in Large Language Models for Code Generation
Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as the new recommendation engines, surpassing traditional methods in both capability and scope, particularly in code generation. In this paper, we reveal a novel provider bias in LLMs: without explicit directives, these models show systematic preferences for services from specific providers in their recommendations (e.g., favoring Google Cloud over Microsoft Azure). To systematically investigate this bias, we develop an automated pipeline to construct t…

Robotics & AI, a lot of progress is being made.
#AI

Google’s new robotics AI can run without the cloud and still tie your shoes
Google’s Carolina Parada says Gemini has enabled huge robotics breakthroughs, like the new on-device AI.

Google: Quotenregelung für API-Zugriffe führte zu Cloud-Ausfall  
Fehlerhafte Quotenchecks für API-Zugriffe lösten die weltweite Störung der Google Cloud aus. Das Unternehmen gelobt Besserung. 
h…

At its core, #CCSignals is an attempt by Creative Commons, a Silicon Valley-based organisation, to legitimise the AI grifts of its donors – Google, Microsoft, and Meta (Zuckerberg).
Creative Commons was always a thinly-veiled attempt at enabling Big Tech data farmers to get more data (that’s why the whole “open data” realm is so well funded/popular – open as in “open for business” not fre…

I built a free tool to help students compare the energy/water use of AI tasks—like a 3-sec video gen or 500-word GPT reply—to everyday ones like Netflix, Google, or cloud storage. Try it at https://what-uses-more.com
Adjust variables like prompt complexity or the energy source and climate of local …

Me: "US-Cloud-Dienste sind in der derzeitigen politischen Situation nicht mehr zuverlässig. Was wenn die Regierung einfach entscheidet, ausländische Unternehmen und Konsumenten zu treffen, indem sie den Zugang zu Diensten beschneidet."
Dude: "Google hat Rechenzentren auf der ganzen Welt."
Oh, sweet summer child.

Getting #AI to write good #SQL: Text-to-SQL techniques explained
https://cloud.google.com/blo…

The Linux Foundation unveils the Agent2Agent project, with founding members including Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft; Google donated the protocol spec and SDK (Google Developers Blog)
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-cloud-donates-a2…

Google Cloud donates A2A to Linux Foundation- Google Developers Blog
Explore how Google, Amazon, and Cisco form the Agent2Agent Foundation under the Linux Foundation to drive AI innovation via interoperability as an industry standard.

Scott Logic Lead Developer Darren Smith shares a report of carbon emission measuring software tools in 2025, their scope, and reviews these in the context of principal cloud service providers' offerings, including Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Amazon AWS.
"Tools for measuring Cloud Carbon Emissions (updated for 2025)"

Tools for measuring Cloud Carbon Emissions (updated for 2025)
In this post I'll discuss ways of estimating the emissions caused by your Cloud workloads as a first step towards reaching your organisation's Net Zero goals.

Goldener Käfig „Sovereign Cloud“: Wie unabhängig wird Europa wirklich von Microsoft, Google & Co.?
US-Hyperscaler wie Microsoft, Google und AWS präsentieren „Sovereign Clouds“, die angeblich niemand außer den Kunden selbst kontrollieren kann. Doch solange der CLOUD Act gilt, bleibt die Frage: Ist das echte Unabhängigkeit – oder nur ein goldener Käfig mit EU-Flagge? Es ist höchste Zeit, Geld und politischen Willen in europäische Alternativen zu stecken.

Goldener Käfig „Sovereign Cloud“: Wie unabhängig wird Europa wirklich von Microsoft, Google & Co.?
US-Hyperscaler wie Microsoft, Google und AWS präsentieren „Sovereign Clouds“, die angeblich niemand außer den Kunden selbst kontrollieren kann. Doch solange der CLOUD Act gilt, bleibt die Frage: Is…

We’re learning how to create and share MEDIA in our “Creating Cool Websites” summer camp! Today we are adding AUDIO with Vocaroo to our “Favorite Animals”
Google Sites, and starting our “City Travel webpage” project with Adobe Express!
https://lessons.wesfryer.com/courses/sum…

Lessons by Dr. Wesley Fryer (wesfryer.com) - Cool Websites
These are resources for "Creating Cool Websites," a June 23 - 27, 2025 summer camp led by Dr. Wes Fryer. SHARE A LINK! (Google Form) - View Our Links! Camp Structure (Daily Schedule - 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM) 9:00–9:15: Greeting & Introduction to Design Process / Today's Focus 9:15–10:00: Skill

Ladet euch jetzt Signal runter. Ihr findet mich unter gratian.37
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.thoughtcrime.securesms
iOS:

Signal – Sicherer Messenger – Apps bei Google Play
Wir leben Datenschutz.

Wenn blog.fefe.de für diesen Schenkelklopfer nicht aus dem Jenseits zurück kommt, dann ist wohl wirklich vorbei:
https://social.heise.de/@heiseonline/114574047341743960

Massive Cloud-Ausfälle bei Google und Cloudflare legen US-Dienste lahm
Seit dem frühen Abend kämpfen Google Cloud und Cloudflare in den USA mit Störungen, die zahlreiche Internetdienste in den USA beeinträchtigen.

Surprised no one in my timeline highlighted this source probs, maybe the majority of the fedi collectivity shrugs? https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/ow5i3PPK96RduMcb1SsW

Oh, #ThunderbirdCloud hört sich interessant an und könnte tatsächlich #Gmail bei mir ablösen! Ich nutze letzteres nur als Oberfläche, um Pop3-Konten an einer Stelle zu aggregieren.
Scheine ja nicht nur ich so zu machen.

Thunderbird: Mozillas Alternative zu Microsoft 365 und Google Workspace - Golem.de
Thunderbird verliert Nutzer an Microsoft 365 – und geht jetzt auch in die Cloud. Das neue Angebot rund um Mail und Kalender ist vielversprechend.

Google releases a new Gemini Robotics On-Device model with an SDK and says the vision language action model can adapt to new tasks in 50 to 100 demonstrations (Ryan Whitwam/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/06/google-relea…

Google’s new robotics AI can run without the cloud and still tie your shoes
Google’s Carolina Parada says Gemini has enabled huge robotics breakthroughs, like the new on-device AI.

Freitag: Cloud-Störungen bei Google und Cloudflare, Anker mit Powerbank-Rückruf
Cloud-Ausfälle in großem Umfang Millionen-Rückruf von Powerbanks Waymo-Robotaxis teuer & beliebt Quantencomputer mit Fehlerkorrektur Datenschutz-Podcast

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Massive Cloud-Ausfälle bei Google und Cloudflare legen US-Dienste lahm

Google DeepMind Just Changed Hurricane Forecasting Forever With New AI Model (VentureBeat, 11 June 2025)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/google-deepmind-just-changed-hurricane-forecasting-forever-with-new-ai-model/

Google DeepMind just changed hurricane forecasting forever with new AI model
Google DeepMind launches Weather Lab platform for AI hurricane forecasting, showing improved accuracy in early tests with U.S. National Hurricane Center partnership.

Amazon/AWS also suffers from this hubris. https://mastodon.social/@gwire/114671893413490438

Die Private Cloud der Bundeswehr soll also von Google kommen?
Jau, bester Plan ever.
Sieht Trump sicher auch so.

Google Cloud outage in progress apparently.
#hugops

Finding out that the Google Cloud status page depends on Google Cloud working correctly.

Freue mich, dass die deutsche Ausgabe von A Thousand Year Old Vampire von @…, erschienen bei @…, da ist. Ich habe eine Vorlage als Google Doc angelegt und im @… Play Aids Folder abgelegt: #pnpde #ttrpg #solorpg #storygame

Die Bundeswehr setzt auf Google – digitale Souveränität ade? Kritiker warnen vor Datenzugriff durch US-Behörden, doch BWI-Chef Leidenberger sieht keine Alternative: SAP-Anwendungen laufen nur mit Hyperscalern wie Google. Die Abhängigkeit bleibt – das Dilemma europäischer Digitalpolitik #Handelsblatt #Bundeswehr

Google services, AWS, Spotify, Cloudflare, and other services appear to be in a partial outage, according to Downdetector (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/06/12/google-cloud-outage-june-12/

It’s not just you, Google and many other web services appear to be in a partial outage right now
If you’re struggling with Google services right now, you’re not alone as it appears that a partial outage is affecting...

Capitalism − Big Tech − single points of failure https://mas.to/@nemo/114676003248609889

A Review of Cloud Computing in Seismology
Yiyu Ni, Marine A. Denolle, Jannes Munchmeyer, Yinzhi Wang, Kuan-Fu Feng, Carlos Garcia Jurado Suarez, Amanda M. Thomas, Chad Trabant, Alex Hamilton, David Mencin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11307

A Review of Cloud Computing in Seismology
Seismology has entered the petabyte era, driven by decades of continuous recordings of broadband networks, the increase in nodal seismic experiments, and the recent emergence of Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS). This review explains how commercial clouds - AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure - by providing object storage, elastic compute, and managed databases, enable researchers to "bring the code to the data," thereby overcoming traditional HPC solutions' bandwidth and capacity limitations. After …

Die #LagederNation ist dieses Mal außerordentlich interessant.
#Dobrindt kriegt sein Fett weg, #Linartas im Interview, Polen, Energiewende - guckt selbst ins Inhaltsverzeichnis. 😉
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LdN434 Bundesregierung ignoriert Gericht, Rechtsaußen neuer Präsident Polens (Kornelia Kończal, Uni Bielefeld), Wie Kommunen Akzeptanz von Windrädern steigern, Ungleichheit gefährdet Demokratie (Martyna Linartas, Autorin), Korrektur: Bundeswehr und Google-Cloud

Sources: CoreWeave will provide computing capacity to Google as part of Google's cloud deal with OpenAI; Google will also supply its own compute to OpenAI (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/coreweave

#Microsoft verteilt seine Copiloten wie Streusand über alle Office-Apps – jeder Klick ein KI-Helfer, von Word bis Teams -fast wie Büroklammer 2.0. #Google dagegen setzt auf den großen Alleskönner-Agenten in der Cloud, der alles durchsucht, alles weiß.
Microsoft vs. Google: Kampf der KI-Konzep…

Energy-Optimized Scheduling for AIoT Workloads Using TOPSIS
Preethika Pradeep, Eyhab Al-Masri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04902 https://

Energy-Optimized Scheduling for AIoT Workloads Using TOPSIS
AIoT workloads demand energy-efficient orchestration across cloud-edge infrastructures, but Kubernetes' default scheduler lacks multi-criteria optimization for heterogeneous environments. This paper presents GreenPod, a TOPSIS-based scheduler optimizing pod placement based on execution time, energy consumption, processing core, memory availability, and resource balance. Tested on a heterogeneous Google Kubernetes cluster, GreenPod improves energy efficiency by up to 39.1% over the default Kuber…

Sources: OpenAI plans to add Google Cloud to meet its growing needs for computing capacity, a surprising collaboration; source: the deal was finalized in May (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-co

“The Ring has passed to the dominion of Men… and Men promptly sold it to Google Ads.”
“There is no evil in the world that cannot be containerized…”
The Council of Elrond, reimagined in /etc/middle-earth.conf
Elrond (Linus Torvalds):
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“Strangers from distant distros, you have been summoned to answer the threat of the Cloud. Never before has such open source stood together. The time of the monolith is over. The microservice rises.”
Ganda…

Salesforce launches Agentforce 3 with an observability tool called Command Center and MCP support, and says 8,000 customers have signed up to deploy Agentforce (Larry Dignan/Constellation Research)
https://www.constellationr.com/blog-news/i

Salesforce launches Agentforce 3, Command Center for visibility
Salesforce launched Agentforce 3, which features Agentforce Command Center, support for Model Context Protocol (MCP), and updated Atlas architecture to speed up reasoning and performance. The rollout maintains Salesforce's Agentforce cadence, which includes updates every few months as the company learns from enterprise use cases. In addition, Salesforce has added more than 30 partners to AgentExchange including AWS, Box, Cisco, Google Cloud, IBM and payments players such as PayPal and Stripe.

Christian Klein, SAP-Chef, warnt: Mit US-Hyperscalern wie AWS, Azure und Google Cloud zu konkurrieren, indem Europa zig Rechenzentren baut, ist „völlig verrückt“. Die Lösung? Nicht Infrastruktur, sondern intelligente KI-Anwendungen machen Europa stark! Die Zukunft liegt in smarter KI, nicht in digitalen Kraftmeiereien gegen US-Riesen. #Golem

SAP-Chef: "Mit US-Hyperscalern zu konkurrieren, ist völlig verrückt" - Golem.de
In Frankreich und anderswo in Europa viele neue Rechenzentren zu bauen, sei eine völlig falsch umgesetzte Souveränität. SAP-Chef Christian Klein schlägt etwas anderes vor.