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OpenAI says it will use the Google Cloud Platform for ChatGPT and its API, adding it to a list of suppliers that also includes Microsoft, CoreWeave, and Oracle (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/16/openai-googles-cloud-chatgpt.html

OpenAI says it will use Google's cloud for ChatGPT
Having faced supply shortages, OpenAI will now be drawing on computing resources from CoreWeave, Google, Microsoft and Oracle.

I'm paranoid about the cloud, OneDrive etc
I have a policy that most stuff I put on the cloud is encrypted (esp backups). Not always practical tho.
I was happy to discover rclone https://rclone.org/ a while ago, & to find out it can set up encrypted containers on OneDrive etc. Readable on both ends, e…

heise | Nextcloud Notes: Notizen schreiben und auf dem eigenen Server sichern
Notizen in der eigenen Cloud statt bei Google: Mit Nextcloud Hub und der App "Notes" behalten Sie Ihre Gedanken und Aufgaben in der eigenen Hand. So geht es.

Google Cloud has competed well against AWS in AI, attracting business from The Browser Company, Safe Superintelligence, Thinking Machines Lab, and OpenAI (Kevin McLaughlin/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-finds-crack-amazons-c…

Google Finds a Crack in Amazon’s Cloud Dominance
Earlier this year, when The Browser Company was looking for a cloud provider to power the artificial intelligence features in a web browser it was developing, the startup’s leaders asked Amazon Web Services if it could handle the work. Winning this business was important to AWS. The Browser ...

Google Cloud ermöglicht kostenlosen Wechsel zu anderen Anbietern in der EU
Kunden in der EU und Großbritannien erlaubt es Google Cloud, Daten kostenlos zwischen den eigenen Rechnerwolken und anderen Cloud-Anbietern zu übertragen.

Sol: Google will mit Unterseekabel Florida mit Nordspanien verbinden
Das Kabel wird zwischen Palm Coast (Florida) und dem spanischen Santander verlaufen. Es soll die Resilienz der Internetinfrastruktur und Googles Cloud stärken.

Google warns that threat actors have been using an exposed ASP.NET machine key for remote code execution (RCE) on vulnerable Sitecore deployments.
https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/viewstate-deserialization-zero-…

ViewState Deserialization Zero-Day Vulnerability in Sitecore Products (CVE-2025-53690) | Google Cloud Blog
An active ViewState deserialization attack affecting Sitecore products, where attackers achieved remote code execution.

Google and Cisco, have disclosed separate data breaches stemming from voice phishing (vishing) attacks that compromised customer information stored in cloud-based CRM systems.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/security/google-and-ci…

Google and Cisco confirm data breaches linked to vishing attacks
Google and Cisco, have disclosed separate data breaches stemming from voice phishing (vishing) attacks that compromised customer information stored in cloud-based CRM systems.

Google plans to spend $9B in Oklahoma over two years on cloud and AI infrastructure, including a new data center campus and an expansion of its Pryor facility (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/google-pledge…

Google is getting serious about dev tooling for web apps
— their new "Firebase Studio" is going to transform web app development.
It's a modern IDE in the cloud, packed with AI features.
Loads your projects from GitHub and installs dependencies instantly, without local downloads.
Not surprising from Google, with their hatred for local desktop apps

Looks like the Europeans have cottoned onto the US bigtech's 'local cloud' gambit: #SovereignWashing Here in Aotearoa NZ, we should be giving …

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

> New partnership sees Google Cloud agree to work with the UK government in helping public services use advanced tech to shake off decades old ‘ball and chain’ legacy contracts which leave essential services vulnerable to cyberattack.
"ball and chain" being a government code term for Windows?

New Google partnership will help rid taxpayer of ‘ball and chain’ legacy tech and aim to upskill 100,000 civil servants in tech and AI
New partnership with Google Cloud will help modernise outdated government IT, upskill 100,000 civil servants in digital and AI by 2030, and secure better tech deals for the taxpayer.

So someone just got access to a bunch of Salesforce accounts by getting their access tokens.
Salesforce is the company that claims that already 20% of their code is written by "AI", isn't it?
https://cloud.google.com/blog…

Widespread Data Theft Targets Salesforce Instances via Salesloft Drift | Google Cloud Blog
UNC6395 stole data from Salesforce instances by exploiting compromised OAuth tokens from the Salesloft Drift app.

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.

Tag 10 war nur eine kurze Radtour 30 km von #Verona nach Peschiera del Garda. Selbst schuld wenn man Google navigieren lässt, zwischendurch waren ziemlich holprige Wege dabei. Der #Gardasee scheint fest in deutscher Hand. Aber scheinbar nicht so voll wie sonst üblich.
Auf dem Glas steht: Il ber…

Also, may I just say, fuck Sergey Brin.
(How’s that for offensive, Sergey? You fucking genocide apologist piece of shit.) https://kolektiva.social/@oatmeal/114827622817744764

Deutschland 2025: Wir wollen digital unabhängig werden – irgendwann. Bis dahin mieten wir unsere Souveränität stundenweise aus der Google-Cloud. BSI-Chefin Plattner räumt ein: Deutschlands digitale Souveränität liegt noch Jahre entfernt – US-Tech bleibt Pflichtprogramm. Fortschritte ja, aber Rückstand im Jahrzehntmaßstab.
Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik: BSI beklagt deutsche Abhängigkeit von digitalen US-Technologien

Google says hackers stole its customers’ data in a breach of its Salesforce database
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/06/google-says-hackers-stole-its-customers-data-in-a-breach-of-its-salesforce-database/

Google says hackers stole its customers' data by breaching its Salesforce database | TechCrunch
Google confirmed that one of its cloud-stored Salesforce databases was breached, exposing its customer data. Google attributed the breach to a hacking group, ShinyHunters, known for breaking into Salesforce databases.

UK Technology Secretary Peter Kyle addressed his critics head-on at Google Cloud London today.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/peter-kyle-addresses-big-tech-criticisms

Peter Kyle addresses Big Tech criticisms at Google Cloud London
UK Technology Secretary Peter Kyle addressed his critics head-on at Google Cloud London today.

Replit announces a partnership with Microsoft to make its platform available in the Azure Marketplace and integrate its tech with some Microsoft cloud services (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/08/in-a-blow-to-google…

In a blow to Google Cloud, Replit partners with Microsoft | TechCrunch
Replit is one of the breakout stars of the vibe coding world. This partnership is a good deal for both companies.

I continue to be amazed that anyone uses Amazon AWS, or Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Services. Only someone who's very happy to completely lock their business into a 3rd party proprietary stack they don't control, and loves paying 20x (2000%!) more than reasonable commodity infrastructure rates would do so. I'm amazed that these businesses are even viable. Just goes to show how much flab most corporations have. They're ripe for disruption and displacement.

Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian says the division has $106B in unfulfilled customer contract commitments, with an expected revenue of $58B by 2027 (Davey Alba/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-09/google-cloud-…

For some reason a LOT of Microsoft-tagged (whois) IPs are **very** interested in the query "IN ANY fysh.org".
I'm seeing *thousands* of TCP connections to the name server at once, all for that same query.
I'm still going through the list of IPs from about 30 minutes ago, but so far whois is mostly saying "Microsoft", sometimes with a "cloud" tag. There's one bunch of Google in there too, but for all I know they're just because the MS…

Abhängigkeiten bei der Bundeswehr: Scharfe Kritik an Deal mit Google-Cloud
Der Beschluss der Bundeswehr, auf Cloud-Dienste von Google zu setzen, kommt bei Sicherheitspolitikern nicht gut an: Deutschland könne politisch erpresst werden.

An Interactive Google Earth Engine Application for Global Multi-Scale Vegetation Analysis Using NDVI Thresholding
Md. Moktader Moula, Israt Jahan Shonom, Azharul Islam, Mohammad Mosharraf Hossain
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01628

An Interactive Google Earth Engine Application for Global Multi-Scale Vegetation Analysis Using NDVI Thresholding
Monitoring vegetation dynamics is crucial for addressing global environmental challenges like degradation and deforestation, but traditional remote sensing methods are often complex and resource-intensive. To overcome these barriers, we developed an interactive, cloud-based application on the Google Earth Engine (GEE) platform for few clicks on-demand global vegetation analysis without complex technical knowledge. The application automates the calculation of vegetated areas using the Normalized…

Translation: #BigTech has paid #BigTech too much money for CurrentFad
https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/11506

Die Bundeswehr schließt einen Millionen-Deal mit #Google – Kritiker wie Kiesewetter, von Notz und Schönbohm warnen zurecht: Wer sicherheitskritische Systeme an US-Konzerne auslagert, macht sich erpressbar. Technologische Souveränität? Fehlanzeige. Statt „Fort Knox“-Marketing wäre Eigenständigkeit die sicherere Wahl. |
Abhängigkeiten bei der Bundeswehr: Scharfe Kritik an Deal mit Google-Clou…

Abhängigkeiten bei der Bundeswehr: Scharfe Kritik an Deal mit Google-Cloud
Der Beschluss der Bundeswehr, auf Cloud-Dienste von Google zu setzen, kommt bei Sicherheitspolitikern nicht gut an: Deutschland könne politisch erpresst werden.

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…

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.

Google says it is scrapping multi-cloud data transfer fees for organizations in the EU and the UK ahead of the EU Data Act taking effect on September 12 (Paul Sandle/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/googl…

Donnerstag: Leitfaden gegen Cyberangriffe Chinas, Google will nichts vergessen
Warnung vieler Sicherheitsbehörden Google gegen Recht auf Vergessen Windows-Word mit Cloud-Autosave Auskunft nach IT-Angriff auf Kliniken #heiseshow

The High Cost of Keeping Warm: Characterizing Overhead in Serverless Autoscaling Policies
Leonid Kondrashov, Boxi Zhou, Hancheng Wang, Dmitrii Ustiugov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03104

The High Cost of Keeping Warm: Characterizing Overhead in Serverless Autoscaling Policies
Serverless computing is transforming cloud application development, but the performance-cost trade-offs of control plane designs remain poorly understood due to a lack of open, cross-platform benchmarks and detailed system analyses. In this work, we address these gaps by designing a serverless system that approximates the scaling behaviors of commercial providers, including AWS Lambda and Google Cloud Run. We systematically compare the performance and cost-efficiency of both synchronous and asy…

Übrigens gibt es eine #Passwort App, die keine Passwörter speichert, sondern sie jedesmal neu berechnet. Damit kann niemand es knacken:
https://www.heise.de/news/Master-Password-

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.

Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Abhängigkeiten bei der Bundeswehr: Scharfe Kritik an Deal mit Google-Cloud

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…

In May 2025, a high-profile lunch in Riyadh brought together Donald Trump,
the Crown Prince,
and a group of Silicon Valley billionaires and executives.
The guest list assembled by Elon Musk (Tesla, xAI, SpaceX) and arriving by their own jets:
Sam Altman (OpenAI), Jensen Huang (Nvidia), Alex Karp (Palantir), Dara Khosrowshahi (Uber), Ruth Porat (Alphabet/Google), Alexandr Wang (Scale AI), Travis Kalanick (Cloud Kitchens, former Uber CEO), Stephen Schwarzman (Blackstone…

Mad Kings and Saudi Princes
Award winning author and futurist Albert Bates writes about ecovillages, permaculture, negative emission technology, drawdown, and climate solutions.

Source: Meta has signed a deal with Google, worth more than $10B over six years, to use Google Cloud's servers, storage, networking, and other services (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-signs-10-billion-plus-cloud-deal-goo…

Meta Signs $10 Billion-Plus Cloud Deal With Google
Google has struck a major cloud computing deal with Meta Platforms, according to two people familiar with the matter. As part of the agreement, the social media giant will use Google Cloud’s servers, storage, networking and other services, one of the people said. The deal—worth more than $10 ...

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

Google launches its asynchronous coding agent Jules out of beta, with a free plan capped at 15 daily tasks and higher limits for Google AI Pro and Ultra users (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/06/googles-ai-coding-agent-jules-is-now…

Google's AI coding agent Jules is now out of beta | TechCrunch
Powered by Gemini 2.5 Pro, Jules is an asynchronous, agent-based coding tool that integrates with GitHub, clones codebases into Google Cloud virtual machines, and uses AI to fix or update code while developers focus on other tasks.

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.

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 plans to invest an additional $9B in Virginia through 2026 to boost its cloud and AI infrastructure, including a new data center in Chesterfield County (Emily Forgash/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Google to Invest Additional $9 Billion in Virginia Data Centers
Alphabet Inc.’s Google is investing an additional $9 billion in Virginia through 2026 to enhance cloud and AI infrastructure across the state, marking the latest in a series of big tech investments in US data centers.

The Cost Advantage of Virtual Machine Migrations: Empirical Insights into Amazon's EC2 Marketspace
Benedikt Pittl, Werner Mach, Erich Schikuta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14883

The Cost Advantage of Virtual Machine Migrations: Empirical Insights into Amazon's EC2 Marketspace
In recent years, cloud providers have introduced novel approaches for trading virtual machines. For example, Virtustream introduced so-called muVMs to charge cloud computing resources while other providers such as Google, Microsoft, or Amazon re-invented their marketspaces. Today, the market leader Amazon runs six marketspaces for trading virtual machines. Consumers can purchase bundles of virtual machines, which are called cloud-portfolios, from multiple marketspaces and providers. An industry…

Montag: Lithium & Co. im Abraum von Minen, Android-Apps in Windows 11 fortsetzen
Kritische Rohstoffe als Nebenprodukt Handy-Funktion für Windows 11 Medion zurück an Gründer Meta-Milliarden für Google-Cloud Technik der AR-Brille Metas

Google Cloud says its Universal Ledger, a layer-1 blockchain for financial products, is in a private testnet, and more details will be revealed at a later date (Danny Park/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/368399/google-cloud-blockchain-gcul

Google hires NBA star Stephen Curry as a "performance advisor" for its Health, Pixel, and Cloud products, including testing Fitbit's new personal health coach (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/762146/google-pixel-stephen-curry…

Google signs Stephen Curry to pitch its Pixel, health, and AI gear
Google has brought NBA star Stephen Curry on board to help shape up the company’s hardware, features, and AI services.

Alphabet reports Google Cloud Q2 revenue up 32% YoY to $13.62B, vs. $13.11B est., and raises its 2025 capex forecast to $85B, up from $75B in February (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/23/alphabet-google-q2-earnings.html

Alphabet beats earnings expectations, raises spending forecast
The company increased its capital expenditures for 2025 by $10 billion due to "strong and growing demand for our Cloud products and services."

An in-depth look at AWS' underperformance in the GenAI era, as Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud gain ground, and how Anthropic could spark an AWS AI resurgence (SemiAnalysis)
https://semianalysis.com/2025/09/03/amazons-ai-resurg…

Amazon’s AI Resurgence: AWS & Anthropic’s Multi-Gigawatt Trainium Expansion
Two-and-a-half years ago, we flagged a looming “cloud crisis” at AWS. Today, the evidence has mounted. AWS is the crown jewel of the Amazon empire, generating ~60% of group profits, and dominating …

“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…

Google will provide Gemini for Government to US federal agencies at $0.47 per agency through 2026; OpenAI and Anthropic are offering their products for $1/year (Julia Shapero/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5463428-google-ai-cloud-services-fede…

Xpheno: Meta, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Netflix, Google, and their affiliates grew their combined India headcount by 16% over the past year, adding 28K jobs (Himanshi Lohchab/The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.in…

Big Tech continues to hire in India even as local majors downsize
Despite global layoffs, FAAMNG companies are expanding their India headcount, growing by 16% in the past year, driven by demand for AI, cloud, and cybersecurity skills. While Indian IT firms face workforce reductions due to skills mismatch, Big Tech's India-based global capability centers are increasing hiring for high-end work and innovation.

A survey by Google Cloud and The Harris Poll finds 87% of game developers are using AI agents in their workflows; 63% expressed concerns about data ownership (Vic Hood/GamesIndustry.biz)
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/87-of-game-devel…

87% of game developers are using AI agents in their workflows, says new survey
A new survey by Google Cloud and The Harris Poll has found that 87% of developers are using AI agents in their workflow…

“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):
------------------------
“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.