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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.

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.

I was on a mission to find the best burger in Charlottesville, and Citizen Burger Bar came up as the top pick—and wow, it absolutely lived up to the hype!
My review on Yelp:
https://yelp.to/TjK5bt1b2U
My review on Google:

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: 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. 
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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 ...

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

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

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.

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 …

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

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

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.

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

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

OpenAI’s New Browser Could Be the Biggest Threat Google Has Faced in a Decade (YNETNEWS, 11 Jul 2025)
#BigTech

OpenAI’s new browser could be the biggest threat Google has faced in a decade
 OpenAI is launching a browser powered by generative AI, aiming to transform how users browse and interact with the web The move could undermine Google’s ad model and marks a bold step in the escalating battle over the future of browsing

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.

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...

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

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

Google Cloud outage in progress apparently.
#hugops

> 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.

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.

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.

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

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…

Slides for today's #MediaEdLab #MediaEdClub webinar on "Privacy, Power and Platforms"
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Privacy, Power, and Platforms - MediaEd Club (7 July 2025) by wesfryer.com
Privacy, Power, and Platforms 7 July 2025 Facilitated by Wes Fryer mediaeducationlab.com/mediaed-club/upcoming-meetings

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

#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…

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.

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.

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

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 …

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.

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.

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.

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…

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…

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.

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…

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

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

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.

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…

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 ...

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

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

“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.