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Stack Overflow launches OverflowAPI to give AI companies access to its knowledge base, starting with Google, which will use the data for Gemini for Google Cloud (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/29/google-bring…

Google brings Stack Overflow's knowledge base to Gemini for Google Cloud | TechCrunch
Developer Q&A site Stack Overflow is launching a new program today that will give AI companies access to its knowledge base through a new API, aptly

Digitale Verwaltung: NRW setzt auf Cloud-Lösung von Ionos und Computacenter
US-Hyperscaler wie Amazon oder Google können in NRW vorerst nicht fensterln. Das Land will die Verwaltung mit europäischen Dienstleistern nach vorn bringen.

Kris @… goes into a very important issue here (in German):
Since "AI" has become the thing to do, no cloud platform is neutral anymore (they never fully were, try hosting warez there, but for your own content they mostly were): They all "need" (as in want) to use your work as training data for their neural networks - especially work that's not "…

Kris (@isotopp@chaos.social)
Attached: 1 image In https://ddinstagram.com/sloan_spencer_author/p/C48JN_TrvxO/?img_index=1 heißt es: "Warning to all writers who use Google Docs. In a Discord with other indie authors last night, one romance author explained that all her work was suspended by Google for violating their rules of sharing explicit content with her beta/alpha readers. She has no acces to these files or her other works. Please read the following screenshots and go back up your workj now on a different plattfor…

Student protesters are demanding universities divest from Israel.
What does that mean?
Student protesters calling for divestment from the war in Gaza have chosen divergent targets.
At Columbia, students are demanding the university drop its direct investments in companies doing business in or with Israel, including Amazon and Google, which are part of a $1.2bn cloud-computing contract with Israel’s government; Microsoft, whose services are used by Israel’s ministry of defe…

Analysis: in the past two years, Amazon committed to spending $148B over 15 years on data centers, including in Mississippi, Saudi Arabia, and Malaysia (Matt Day/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024…

Amazon Bets $150 Billion on Data Centers Required for AI Boom
Spending spree is a show of force as the company looks to retain cloud computing edge over Microsoft and Google.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.08899 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

FairCMS: Cloud Media Sharing with Fair Copyright Protection
The onerous media sharing task prompts resource-constrained media owners to seek help from a cloud platform, i.e., storing media contents in the cloud and letting the cloud do the sharing. There are three key security/privacy problems that need to be solved in the cloud media sharing scenario, including data privacy leakage and access control in the cloud, infringement on the owner's copyright, and infringement on the user's rights. In view of the fact that no single technique can solve the abo…

Bootlicking 2.0
#gruber

Google Fires 28 Employees Who Disrupted Workplaces to Protest Israel Cloud Contract
Link to: https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/17/24133700/google-fires-28-employees-protest-israel-cloud-contract

Any Firefox website Wizards out there? Even though my website has a verified and valid (LetsEncrypt) SSL certificate, Firefox is reporting that "Parts of the webpage are not encrypted”.
I can't find any other information on why this is occuring, I do have a couple iframes in the page (alberniweather.ca) and lots of images including some that are hosted on Google cloud.
Any help is appreciated.

The excess complexity of Google Cloud auth is enough reason to never use Google Cloud

There are some of us that do this by accident.
https://medium.com/google-cloud/using-a-petabyte-scale-databases-monitoring-tools-to-make-art-8aa8eb17234

Thank you Google workers for taking action against warmongering and war profiteering https://www.wired.com/story/google-no-tech-for-apartheid-project-nimbus-israel-gaza-protest/

Google Workers Protest Cloud Contract With Israel's Government
Google employees are staging sit-ins and protests at company offices in New York and California over “Project Nimbus,” a cloud contract with Israel's government, as the country's war with Hamas continues.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.04880 has been replaced.
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Combining Cloud and Mobile Computing for Machine Learning
Although the computing power of mobile devices is increasing, machine learning models are also growing in size. This trend creates problems for mobile devices due to limitations like their memory capacity and battery life. While many services, like ChatGPT and Midjourney, run all the inferences in the cloud, we believe a flexible and fine-grained task distribution is more desirable. In this work, we consider model segmentation as a solution to improving the user experience, dividing the computa…

Google fires 28 workers for protesting $1.2 billion Israel contract #Google #Gaza

Nach Protest gegen Cloud-Vertrag mit Israel: Google entlässt 28 Angestellte
Seit Jahren gibt es bei Google intern Kritik an einem milliardenschweren Vertrag mit Israel, zuletzt wurde sie wieder lauter. Nun ist der Konflikt eskaliert.

2021 retro-link! https://rclone.org/ - Rclone syncs your files to cloud storage.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.08501 has been replaced.
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Governing Through the Cloud: The Intermediary Role of Compute Providers in AI Regulation
As jurisdictions around the world take their first steps toward regulating the most powerful AI systems, such as the EU AI Act and the US Executive Order 14110, there is a growing need for effective enforcement mechanisms that can verify compliance and respond to violations. We argue that compute providers should have legal obligations and ethical responsibilities associated with AI development and deployment, both to provide secure infrastructure and to serve as intermediaries for AI regulatio…

💪 Introducing Google’s new Arm-based CPU
#arm

Introducing Google’s new Arm-based CPU | Google Cloud Blog
The custom Axion Arm-based processor is designed for general-purpose workloads like web and app servers, databases, analytics, CPU-based AI, and more.

Unearthing APT44: Russia’s Notorious Cyber Sabotage Unit Sandworm.
#cybersecurity #Russia #APT44

Unearthing APT44: Russia’s Notorious Cyber Sabotage Unit Sandworm | Google Cloud Blog
APT44 is a threat actor that is actively engaged in the full spectrum of espionage, attack, and influence operations.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.03041 has been replaced.
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Demystifying Datapath Accelerator Enhanced Off-path SmartNIC
Network speeds grow quickly in the modern cloud, so SmartNICs are introduced to offload network processing tasks, even application logic. However, typical multicore SmartNICs such as BlueFiled-2 are only capable of processing control-plane tasks with their embedded CPU that has limited memory bandwidth and computing power. On the other hand, hot cloud applications evolve, such that a limited number of fixed hardware engines in a SmartNIC cannot satisfy the requirements of cloud applications. Th…

#LangChain…

Build RAG applications with LangChain and Google Cloud | Google Cloud Blog
New integrations between Google Cloud databases and Langchain make it easier and faster than ever to build enterprise RAG applications.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.01235 has been replaced.
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COIN-LIO: Complementary Intensity-Augmented LiDAR Inertial Odometry
We present COIN-LIO, a LiDAR Inertial Odometry pipeline that tightly couples information from LiDAR intensity with geometry-based point cloud registration. The focus of our work is to improve the robustness of LiDAR-inertial odometry in geometrically degenerate scenarios, like tunnels or flat fields. We project LiDAR intensity returns into an intensity image, and propose an image processing pipeline that produces filtered images with improved brightness consistency within the image as well as a…

Paywalled, but just maybe a tiny weak spot in the bubble: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/generative-ai-providers-quietly-tamp-down-expectations?ck_subscriber_id=512840947

Amazon, Google Quietly Tamp Down Generative AI Expectations
In the past year, major technology firms have championed generative artificial intelligence as the next big thing, boosting the stock market to new highs. But behind the scenes, representatives of major cloud providers and other firms that sell the technology are tempering expectations with ...

Of course they do. Google is so problematic it’s hard to keep track. https://akademienl.social/@Frederik_Borgesius/112268596458685901

Question: How would you fork Android for Smartphones today, so that such a forked Android phone:
1) could be as far as possible be not dependent on either AOSP or Google/Alphabet owned products and services,
2) could essentially use app binaries/packages designed and/or coded for "mainline/official" Google-approved Android, and
3) more or less participate adequately (or even participate "fully") in the global mobile Inter-networked Internet and the Inter…

Voor iedereen betrokken bij het VO in Amersfoort eo: 3 april GSA informatiemiddag over allerlei onderwerpen die te maken hebben met gender en seksuele diversiteit. Aanmelden: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSegROJGW3QlhjYeEpiUcfxXho8_3hJXD1-…

Aanmeldformulier Symposium Gender en Seksuele Diversiteit in het VO
Hi! Wat ontzettend leuk dat je bij het Symposium Gender en Seksuele Diversiteit in het VO wilt zijn! We verheugen ons op je komst op 3 april op het Johan van Oldenbarnevelt Gymnasium. Graag vragen we je om dit formulier per persoon in te vullen. Wil je meerdere personen in 1x aanmelden? Stuur dan even een mailtje naar schoolsout@ggdru.nl Bij vragen of om je af te melden, vragen we je graag om naar schoolsout@ggdru.nl te mailen. Dit symposium wordt georganiseerd door Gemeente Amersfoort, Joh…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.03483 has been replaced.
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In-Storage Domain-Specific Acceleration for Serverless Computing
While (1) serverless computing is emerging as a popular form of cloud execution, datacenters are going through major changes: (2) storage dissaggregation in the system infrastructure level and (3) integration of domain-specific accelerators in the hardware level. Each of these three trends individually provide significant benefits; however, when combined the benefits diminish. Specifically, the paper makes the key observation that for serverless functions, the overhead of accessing dissaggregat…

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Continuous Invariance Learning
Invariance learning methods aim to learn invariant features in the hope that they generalize under distributional shifts. Although many tasks are naturally characterized by continuous domains, current invariance learning techniques generally assume categorically indexed domains. For example, auto-scaling in cloud computing often needs a CPU utilization prediction model that generalizes across different times (e.g., time of a day and date of a year), where `time' is a continuous domain index. In…

Google fires ~20 more staff the company says participated in protests denouncing an Israeli cloud contract; an activist workers' group says the total is now 50 (Washington Post)
https://wapo.st/3WdPCIG

Google fires more workers after CEO says workplace isn’t for politics
Some employees protested the tech giant’s contract with the Israeli government. They’ve been let go.

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Autonomic Cloud Computing: Research Perspective
As the cloud infrastructure grows, it becomes more challenging to manage resources in such a massive, diverse, and distributed setting, despite the fact that cloud computing provides computational capabilities on-demand. Due to resource variability and unpredictability, resource allocation issues arise in a cloud setting. A Quality of Service (QoS) based autonomic resource management strategy automates resource management, delivering trustworthy, dependable, and cost-effective cloud services th…

Okay, so this is super fun--Google Scholar word cloud generator: https://shiny.rcg.sfu.ca/u/rdmorin/scholar_googler3/

Vimeo names Philip Moyer, an ex-VP of applied AI engineering and business development at Google Cloud, as CEO and board member, replacing interim CEO Adam Gross (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/vimeo-philip-moyer-ceo-1235961046…

Vimeo Hires Google Cloud AI Exec Philip Moyer as CEO
Vimeo named Philip Moyer, a top Google Cloud exec overseeing AI applied engineering and business development, as CEO and member of its board.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.00693 has been replaced.
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Deep Recurrent Learning Through Long Short Term Memory and TOPSIS
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software brings resources, data together to keep software-flow within business processes in a company. However, cloud computing's cheap, easy and quick management promise pushes business-owners for a transition from monolithic to a data-center/cloud based ERP. Since cloud-ERP development involves a cyclic process, namely planning, implementing, testing and upgrading, its adoption is realized as a deep recurrent neural network problem. Eventually, a classificat…

KI-Update kompakt: Google Cloud Next, Llama 3, Intels Gaudi 3, Grok 2
Das "KI-Update" liefert werktäglich eine Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten KI-Entwicklungen.
https://www.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.01235 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

COIN-LIO: Complementary Intensity-Augmented LiDAR Inertial Odometry
We present COIN-LIO, a LiDAR Inertial Odometry pipeline that tightly couples information from LiDAR intensity with geometry-based point cloud registration. The focus of our work is to improve the robustness of LiDAR-inertial odometry in geometrically degenerate scenarios, like tunnels or flat fields. We project LiDAR intensity returns into an intensity image, and propose an image processing pipeline that produces filtered images with improved brightness consistency within the image as well as a…

We're so fucking doomed it's not even funny anymore
https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/398127/our-partnership-with-google-and-commitment-to-socially-responsible-ai?cb=1

Our partnership with Google and commitment to socially responsible AI
Today, we announced an exciting new partnership with Google to bring Google's Gemini to Stack Overflow and to provide Stack Overflow content directly within Google Cloud. The story of this partners...

Q&A with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian on why Google doesn't need to raise trillions to build a supercomputer, why AI offers a reset in competition, and more (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
https://stratechery.com/2024/an-interv

An Interview with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian About Google’s Enterprise AI Strategy
An interview with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian about Google’s AI strategy, and why this is an opportunity for the company to leap ahead in the cloud.

Getting tons of spam on Google photos comments.

Google is intentionally killing the internet. It's time to save it by going elsewhere. Have you tried Startpage.com or DuckDuckGo?
https://retrododo.com/google-is-killing-retro-dodo/

Question: How would you fork Android for Smartphones today, so that such a forked Android phone:
1) could be as far as possible be not dependent on either AOSP or Google/Alphabet owned products and services,
2) could essentially use app binaries/packages designed and/or coded for "mainline/official" Google-approved Android, and
3) more or less participate adequately (or even participate "fully") in the global mobile Inter-networked Internet and the Inter…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.02626 has been replaced.
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Estimating the limiting shape of bivariate scaled sample clouds: with additional benefits of self-consistent inference for existing extremal dependence properties
The key to successful statistical analysis of bivariate extreme events lies in flexible modelling of the tail dependence relationship between the two variables. In the extreme value theory literature, various techniques are available to model separate aspects of tail dependence, based on different asymptotic limits. Results from Balkema and Nolde (2010) and Nolde (2014) highlight the importance of studying the limiting shape of an appropriately-scaled sample cloud when characterising the whole …

How To: Remove non Thunderbird Knowledge Base Articles From Google Analytics page view report CSV using 2 Kitsune API calls to get en-US TB URLs and scraping using Mechanize to get the localized URLs :-) http://rolandtanglao.com/2024/04/02/p

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.10561 has been replaced.
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Turning Federated Learning Systems Into Covert Channels
Federated learning (FL) goes beyond traditional, centralized machine learning by distributing model training among a large collection of edge clients. These clients cooperatively train a global, e.g., cloud-hosted, model without disclosing their local, private training data. The global model is then shared among all the participants which use it for local predictions. In this paper, we put forward a novel attacker model aiming at turning FL systems into covert channels to implement a stealth co…

Why do we need more unemployed people?
Is this a coordinated thing???
#Google spent billions of dollars to lay people off - The Verge
https://www.

Google spent billions of dollars to lay people off
The search giant spent $2.1 billion on employee severance in 2023, according to its fourth-quarter earnings call, but reported growth across its ad, cloud, and services divisions.

Relevant to my #DeGoogle project: https://cantrusthosting.coop/canwork-cloud/
Tl;dr: Worker-coop-hosted/managed NextCloud. I wonder how many of these there are out there?

canWork: Canadian Hosted Business Tools
Canadian hosted collaboration work-space and messaging system. CanWork provides a non-corporate, open-source Canadian replacement for Dropbox, Google Drive, Google Apps, and encrypted chat.

This new article is worth a read, with the caveat that it’s a bit of an apples to oranges comparison. The ML done on devices is usually of a different kind and scale than that done in the cloud. Patterson, David, Jeffrey M. Gilbert, Marco Gruteser, Efren Robles, Krishna Sekar, Yong Wei, and Tenghui Zhu. 2024. "Energy and Emissions of Machine Learning on Smartphones vs. the Cloud." Commun. ACM. vol. 67, no. 2. pp. 86–97. [

Energy and Emissions of Machine Learning on Smartphones vs. the Cloud | Communications of the ACM
A Google case study finds ML training in the cloud can reduce CO2e emissions up to 100×.

https://infosec.exchange/@BleepingComputer/112124935674795902

#Gemini 1.5 and Google’s Nature
"It was impossible to miss the leading message at yesterday’s Google Cloud Next keynote: Google has the best infrastructure for AI. "
#ai #google…

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PC-JeDi: Diffusion for Particle Cloud Generation in High Energy Physics
In this paper, we present a new method to efficiently generate jets in High Energy Physics called PC-JeDi. This method utilises score-based diffusion models in conjunction with transformers which are well suited to the task of generating jets as particle clouds due to their permutation equivariance. PC-JeDi achieves competitive performance with current state-of-the-art methods across several metrics that evaluate the quality of the generated jets. Although slower than other models, due to the l…

Are there already experiences with installation of Llama 3 on your own hardware (on premis or a virtual server) and the experiences with that ?
(compared to via azure, amazon, google cloud).
Contemplating this as an option.
#AI #llama3

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Modifying the Asynchronous Jacobi Method for Data Corruption Resilience
Moving scientific computation from high-performance computing (HPC) and cloud computing (CC) environments to devices on the edge, i.e., physically near instruments of interest, has received tremendous interest in recent years. Such edge computing environments can operate on data in-situ, offering enticing benefits over data aggregation to HPC and CC facilities that include avoiding costs of transmission, increased data privacy, and real-time data analysis. Because of the inherent unreliability …

Alphabet Q1: revenue up 15% YoY to $80.5B, net income up 57% to $23.7B, Google Cloud revenue up 28% to $9.6B, and headcount down 5% ; GOOG up 13% after hours (Alphabet)
https://abc.xyz/assets/91/b3/3f9213d14ce3ae27e1038e01a0e0/20…

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Physics Informed Neural Network Code for 2D Transient Problems (PINN-2DT) Compatible with Google Colab
We present an open-source Physics Informed Neural Network environment for simulations of transient phenomena on two-dimensional rectangular domains, with the following features: (1) it is compatible with Google Colab which allows automatic execution on cloud environment; (2) it supports two dimensional time-dependent PDEs; (3) it provides simple interface for definition of the residual loss, boundary condition and initial loss, together with their weights; (4) it support Neumann and Dirichlet b…

Okay, so this is super fun--Google Scholar word cloud generator: https://shiny.rcg.sfu.ca/u/rdmorin/scholar_googler3/

Vimeo names Philip Moyer, an ex-VP of applied AI engineering and business development at Google Cloud, as CEO and board member, replacing interim CEO Adam Gross (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/vimeo-philip-moyer-ceo-1235961046…

Vimeo Hires Google Cloud AI Exec Philip Moyer as CEO
Vimeo named Philip Moyer, a top Google Cloud exec overseeing AI applied engineering and business development, as CEO and member of its board.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.00693 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Deep Recurrent Learning Through Long Short Term Memory and TOPSIS
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software brings resources, data together to keep software-flow within business processes in a company. However, cloud computing's cheap, easy and quick management promise pushes business-owners for a transition from monolithic to a data-center/cloud based ERP. Since cloud-ERP development involves a cyclic process, namely planning, implementing, testing and upgrading, its adoption is realized as a deep recurrent neural network problem. Eventually, a classificat…

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Is Your Kettle Smarter Than a Hacker? A Scalable Tool for Assessing Replay Attack Vulnerabilities on Consumer IoT Devices
Consumer Internet of Things (IoT) devices often leverage the local network to communicate with the corresponding companion app or other devices. This has benefits in terms of efficiency since it offloads the cloud. ENISA and NIST security guidelines underscore the importance of enabling default local communication for safety and reliability. Indeed, an IoT device should continue to function in case the cloud connection is not available. While the security of cloud-device connections is typicall…

Alphabet Q1: revenue up 15% YoY to $80.5B, net income up 57% to $23.7B, Google Cloud revenue up 28% to $9.6B, and headcount down 5% ; GOOG up 13% after hours (Alphabet)
https://abc.xyz/assets/91/b3/3f9213d14ce3ae27e1038e01a0e0/20…

That’s the web in 2024 🤮
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/generative-ai-providers-quietly-tamp-down-expectations

Amazon, Google Quietly Tamp Down Generative AI Expectations
In the past year, major technology firms have championed generative artificial intelligence as the next big thing, boosting the stock market to new highs. But behind the scenes, representatives of major cloud providers and other firms that sell the technology are tempering expectations with ...

A word cloud from the titles of all my publications on Google Scholar using https://shiny.rcg.sfu.ca/u/rdmorin/scholar_googler3/
I need to get cats somewhere in my articles..
found via: https://archaeo.social/@FlintDibble/111891581805182121

really killing me I can't figure out how to get my blog fully indexed by google.

Google Cloud/Cloud Security Alliance survey of 2,486 IT and security professionals: 63% of security professionals believe AI could help in threat detection (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2024/04/04/go

Google details Workspace updates: Gmail "Help me write" voice input and "instant polish", Docs tabs, Sheets tables, Gemini in Chat, Meet translation, and more (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2024/04/09/google-workspace-cloud-nex…

Gmail adding voice input, Gemini for Google Chat, Meet ‘Translate for me,’ & more
Besides Vids, Google Workspace is getting a slew of new features and Gemini capabilities at Cloud Next 2024...

@…
On ur latest newsletter you asked: "New AI tools have me wondering: Why would anyone use Google Search anymore?"
IMO 'coz *all* current AI tools still *hallucinate* their answers at least 25% of the time, which is well beyond statistical trustable significance.
Search (whether through Google, Bing, OpenDirectory, DuckDuckGo / whatever) m…

So annoying that google cloud returns 403s for operations on projects that do not exist. I guess it's a security thing to not leak if a project doesn't exit, but it makes debugging tf frustrating.

really killing me I can't figure out how to get my blog fully indexed by google.

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Sponge: Inference Serving with Dynamic SLOs Using In-Place Vertical Scaling
Mobile and IoT applications increasingly adopt deep learning inference to provide intelligence. Inference requests are typically sent to a cloud infrastructure over a wireless network that is highly variable, leading to the challenge of dynamic Service Level Objectives (SLOs) at the request level. This paper presents Sponge, a novel deep learning inference serving system that maximizes resource efficiency while guaranteeing dynamic SLOs. Sponge achieves its goal by applying in-place vertical sc…

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MicroRes: Versatile Resilience Profiling in Microservices via Degradation Dissemination Indexing
Microservice resilience, the ability of microservices to recover from failures and continue providing reliable and responsive services, is crucial for cloud vendors. However, the current practice relies on manually configured rules specific to a certain microservice system, resulting in labor-intensity and flexibility issues, given the large scale and high dynamics of microservices. A more labor-efficient and versatile solution is desired. Our insight is that resilient deployment can effectivel…

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Internet of Things Meets Robotics: A Survey of Cloud-based Robots
This work presents a survey of existing literature on the fusion of the Internet of Things (IoT) with robotics and explores the integration of these technologies for the development of the Internet of Robotics Things (IoRT). The survey focuses on the applications of IoRT in healthcare and agriculture, while also addressing key concerns regarding the adoption of IoT and robotics. Additionally, an online survey was conducted to examine how companies utilize IoT technology in their organizations. …

https://moorinsightsstrategy.com/ibm-built-a-giant-ai-supercomputer-in-the-cloud-to-train-its-massive-ai-models/
I wonder if based on the vela Supercomputer soon there will be SaaS offerings.
Would b…

IBM Built A Giant AI Supercomputer In The Cloud To Train Its Massive AI Models - Moor Insights & Strategy
IBM IBM Much attention has been given to artificial intelligence ever since OpenAI unveiled its AI language model called ChatGPT. Public interest surged after getting a free hands-on trial taste of AI. Response was so great, Microsoft and Google were forced to quickly integrate AI into their search engine infrastructures. The release of ChatGPT will […]

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Sphractal: Estimating the Fractal Dimension of Surfaces Computed from Precise Atomic Coordinates via Box-Counting Algorithm
The fractal dimension of a surface allows its degree of roughness to be characterized quantitatively. However, limited effort is attempted to calculate the fractal dimension of surfaces computed from precisely known atomic coordinates from computational biomolecular and nanomaterial studies. This work proposes methods to estimate the fractal dimension of the surface of any 3D object composed of spheres, by representing the surface as either a voxelized point cloud or a mathematically exact surf…

@…
On ur latest newsletter you asked: "New AI tools have me wondering: Why would anyone use Google Search anymore?"
IMO 'coz *all* current AI tools still *hallucinate* their answers at least 25% of the time, which is well beyond statistical trustable significance.
Search (whether through Google, Bing, OpenDirectory, DuckDuckGo / whatever) m…

Do Rails next https://mastodon.social/@jbzfn/112192252501750998

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.02586 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Internet of Things Meets Robotics: A Survey of Cloud-based Robots
This work presents a survey of existing literature on the fusion of the Internet of Things (IoT) with robotics and explores the integration of these technologies for the development of the Internet of Robotics Things (IoRT). The survey focuses on the applications of IoRT in healthcare and agriculture, while also addressing key concerns regarding the adoption of IoT and robotics. Additionally, an online survey was conducted to examine how companies utilize IoT technology in their organizations. …

Service Weaver: A Promising Direction for Cloud-native Systems?
Jacoby Johnson, Subash Kharel, Alan Mannamplackal, Amr S. Abdelfattah, Tomas Cerny
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.09357

Service Weaver: A Promising Direction for Cloud-native Systems?
Cloud-native and microservice architectures have taken over the development world by storm. While being incredibly scalable and resilient, microservice architectures also come at the cost of increased overhead to build and maintain. Google's Service Weaver aims to simplify the complexities associated with implementing cloud-native systems by introducing the concept of a single modular binary composed of agent-like components, thereby abstracting away the microservice architecture notion of indi…

Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian unveils AI updates: corporate Gemini users can "ground" responses in reliable sources, Search as a Gemini answer source, and more (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Google Shows AI Model Is Enterprise-Ready After Gemini Mishaps
The company unveiled updates to its AI offerings at its annual cloud conference

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Verifiable Encodings for Secure Homomorphic Analytics
Homomorphic encryption, which enables the execution of arithmetic operations directly on ciphertexts, is a promising solution for protecting privacy of cloud-delegated computations on sensitive data. However, the correctness of the computation result is not ensured. We propose two error detection encodings and build authenticators that enable practical client-verification of cloud-based homomorphic computations under different trade-offs and without compromising on the features of the encryptio…

https://moorinsightsstrategy.com/ibm-built-a-giant-ai-supercomputer-in-the-cloud-to-train-its-massive-ai-models/
I wonder if based on the vela Supercomputer soon there will be SaaS offerings.
Would b…

IBM Built A Giant AI Supercomputer In The Cloud To Train Its Massive AI Models - Moor Insights & Strategy
IBM IBM Much attention has been given to artificial intelligence ever since OpenAI unveiled its AI language model called ChatGPT. Public interest surged after getting a free hands-on trial taste of AI. Response was so great, Microsoft and Google were forced to quickly integrate AI into their search engine infrastructures. The release of ChatGPT will […]

Amid regulatory pressure around cloud vendor lock-in, AWS follows Google and drops egress fees for moving data out of its ecosystem; Microsoft's fees remain (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/05/amazon-…

AWS follows Google in announcing unrestricted free data transfers to other cloud providers | TechCrunch
AWS has revealed that it will allow customers to transfer their data out of its ecosystem with no so-called "egress fees" attached.

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Hierarchical Large Language Models in Cloud Edge End Architecture for Heterogeneous Robot Cluster Control
Despite their powerful semantic understanding and code generation capabilities, Large Language Models (LLMs) still face challenges when dealing with complex tasks. Multi agent strategy generation and motion control are highly complex domains that inherently require experts from multiple fields to collaborate. To enhance multi agent strategy generation and motion control, we propose an innovative architecture that employs the concept of a cloud edge end hierarchical structure. By leveraging mult…

Amid regulatory pressure around cloud vendor lock-in, AWS follows Google and drops egress fees for moving data out of its ecosystem; Microsoft's fees remain (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/05/amazon-…

AWS follows Google in announcing unrestricted free data transfers to other cloud providers | TechCrunch
AWS has revealed that it will allow customers to transfer their data out of its ecosystem with no so-called "egress fees" attached.

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Responsible Composition and Optimization of Integration Processes under Correctness Preserving Guarantees
Enterprise Application Integration deals with the problem of connecting heterogeneous applications, and is the centerpiece of current on-premise, cloud and device integration scenarios. For integration scenarios, structurally correct composition of patterns into processes and improvements of integration processes are crucial. In order to achieve this, we formalize compositions of integration patterns based on their characteristics, and describe optimization strategies that help to reduce the mo…

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NDT-Map-Code: A 3D global descriptor for real-time loop closure detection in lidar SLAM
Loop-closure detection, also known as place recognition, aiming to identify previously visited locations, is an essential component of a SLAM system. Existing research on lidar-based loop closure heavily relies on dense point cloud and 360 FOV lidars. This paper proposes an out-of-the-box NDT (Normal Distribution Transform) based global descriptor, NDT-Map-Code, designed for both on-road driving and underground valet parking scenarios. NDT-Map-Code can be directly extracted from the NDT map wit…

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Sphractal: Estimating the Fractal Dimension of Surfaces Computed from Precise Atomic Coordinates via Box-Counting Algorithm
The fractal dimension of a surface allows its degree of roughness to be characterized quantitatively. However, limited effort is attempted to calculate the fractal dimension of surfaces computed from precisely known atomic coordinates from computational biomolecular and nanomaterial studies. This work proposes methods to estimate the fractal dimension of the surface of any 3D object composed of spheres, by representing the surface as either a voxelized point cloud or a mathematically exact surf…

Vimeo names Philip Moyer, an ex-VP of applied AI engineering and business development at Google Cloud, as CEO and board member, replacing interim CEO Adam Gross (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/vimeo-philip-moyer-ceo-1235961046…

Vimeo Hires Google Cloud AI Exec Philip Moyer as CEO
Vimeo named Philip Moyer, a top Google Cloud exec overseeing AI applied engineering and business development, as CEO and member of its board.

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On the Evaluation of User Privacy in Deep Neural Networks using Timing Side Channel
Recent Deep Learning (DL) advancements in solving complex real-world tasks have led to its widespread adoption in practical applications. However, this opportunity comes with significant underlying risks, as many of these models rely on privacy-sensitive data for training in a variety of applications, making them an overly-exposed threat surface for privacy violations. Furthermore, the widespread use of cloud-based Machine-Learning-as-a-Service (MLaaS) for its robust infrastructure support has …

Google's Cloud Next keynote was by far its most impressive presentation in the AI era, not least because the company realizes its infrastructure advantages (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
https://stratechery.com/2024/gemini-1-5-and-googles-nature/

Gemini 1.5 and Google’s Nature
Google Cloud Next 2024 was Google’s most impressive assertion yet that it has the AI scale advantage and is determined to use it.

Happy Saturday. A perfect day to switch your default browser search engine. I avoided it for years but it feels great and switching back to google when needed is so simple.
For me #duckduckgo has been a real joy.

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On the Limitations of Carbon-Aware Temporal and Spatial Workload Shifting in the Cloud
Cloud platforms have been focusing on reducing their carbon emissions by shifting workloads across time and locations to when and where low-carbon energy is available. Despite the prominence of this idea, prior work has only quantified the potential of spatiotemporal workload shifting in narrow settings, i.e., for specific workloads in select regions. In particular, there has been limited work on quantifying an upper bound on the ideal and practical benefits of carbon-aware spatiotemporal workl…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.16335 has been replaced.
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X-ICP: Localizability-Aware LiDAR Registration for Robust Localization in Extreme Environments
Modern robotic systems are required to operate in challenging environments, which demand reliable localization under challenging conditions. LiDAR-based localization methods, such as the Iterative Closest Point (ICP) algorithm, can suffer in geometrically uninformative environments that are known to deteriorate point cloud registration performance and push optimization toward divergence along weakly constrained directions. To overcome this issue, this work proposes i) a robust fine-grained loca…

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AO-Grasp: Articulated Object Grasp Generation
We introduce AO-Grasp, a grasp proposal method that generates 6 DoF grasps that enable robots to interact with articulated objects, such as opening and closing cabinets and appliances. AO-Grasp consists of two main contributions: the AO-Grasp Model and the AO-Grasp Dataset. Given a segmented partial point cloud of a single articulated object, the AO-Grasp Model predicts the best grasp points on the object with an Actionable Grasp Point Predictor. Then, it finds corresponding grasp orientations …

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Post-Quantum Hybrid Digital Signatures with Hardware-Support for Digital Twins
Digital Twins (DT) virtually model cyber-physical objects using Internet of Things (IoT) components (e.g., sensors) to gather and process senstive information stored in the cloud. Trustworthiness of the streamed data is crucial which requires quantum safety and breach resiliency. Digital signatures are essential for scalable authentication and non-repudiation. Yet, NIST PQC signature standards are exorbitantly costly for low-end IoT without considering forward security. Moreover, Post-Quantum (…

Google announces its new Arm-based Axion chips for AI, with up to 30% better performance over Arm-based rivals, set to launch to cloud customers later in 2024 (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/google…

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Hamiltonian Dynamics Learning from Point Cloud Observations for Nonholonomic Mobile Robot Control
Reliable autonomous navigation requires adapting the control policy of a mobile robot in response to dynamics changes in different operational conditions. Hand-designed dynamics models may struggle to capture model variations due to a limited set of parameters. Data-driven dynamics learning approaches offer higher model capacity and better generalization but require large amounts of state-labeled data. This paper develops an approach for learning robot dynamics directly from point-cloud observa…

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CoFHEE: A Co-processor for Fully Homomorphic Encryption Execution (Extended Version)
The migration of computation to the cloud has raised concerns regarding the security and privacy of sensitive data, as their need to be decrypted before processing, renders them susceptible to potential breaches. Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) serves as a countermeasure to this issue by enabling computation to be executed directly on encrypted data. Nevertheless, the execution of FHE is orders of magnitude slower compared to unencrypted computation, thereby impeding its practicality and ado…

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Internet of Things Meets Robotics: A Survey of Cloud-based Robots
This work presents a survey of existing literature on the fusion of the Internet of Things (IoT) with robotics and explores the integration of these technologies for the development of the Internet of Robotics Things (IoRT). The survey focuses on the applications of IoRT in healthcare and agriculture, while also addressing key concerns regarding the adoption of IoT and robotics. Additionally, an online survey was conducted to examine how companies utilize IoT technology in their organizations. …

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BA-LINS: A Frame-to-Frame Bundle Adjustment for LiDAR-Inertial Navigation
Bundle Adjustment (BA) has been proven to improve the accuracy of the LiDAR mapping. However, the BA method has not yet been properly employed in a dead-reckoning navigation system. In this paper, we present a frame-to-frame (F2F) BA for LiDAR-inertial navigation, named BA-LINS. Based on the direct F2F point-cloud association, the same-plane points are associated among the LiDAR keyframes. Hence, the F2F plane-point BA measurement can be constructed using the same-plane points. The LiDAR BA and…

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RecNet: An Invertible Point Cloud Encoding through Range Image Embeddings for Multi-Robot Map Sharing and Reconstruction
In the field of resource-constrained robots and the need for effective place recognition in multi-robotic systems, this article introduces RecNet, a novel approach that concurrently addresses both challenges. The core of RecNet's methodology involves a transformative process: it projects 3D point clouds into range images, compresses them using an encoder-decoder framework, and subsequently reconstructs the range image, restoring the original point cloud. Additionally, RecNet utilizes the latent…

Alphabet reports Q4 revenue rose 13% YoY to $86B, net income rose 52% to $20.7B, Google Cloud revenue rose 26% to $9.2B, and headcount dropped 4% to 182,502 (Alphabet)
https://abc.xyz/assets/95/eb/9cef90184e09bac553796896c633/2023q4-…

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3D-BBS: Global Localization for 3D Point Cloud Scan Matching Using Branch-and-Bound Algorithm
This paper presents an accurate and fast 3D global localization method, 3D-BBS, that extends the existing branch-and-bound (BnB)-based 2D scan matching (BBS) algorithm. To reduce memory consumption, we utilize a sparse hash table for storing hierarchical 3D voxel maps. To improve the processing cost of BBS in 3D space, we propose an efficient roto-translational space branching. Furthermore, we devise a batched BnB algorithm to fully leverage GPU parallel processing. Through experiments in simul…

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3D-BBS: Global Localization for 3D Point Cloud Scan Matching Using Branch-and-Bound Algorithm
This paper presents an accurate and fast 3D global localization method, 3D-BBS, that extends the existing branch-and-bound (BnB)-based 2D scan matching (BBS) algorithm. To reduce memory consumption, we utilize a sparse hash table for storing hierarchical 3D voxel maps. To improve the processing cost of BBS in 3D space, we propose an efficient roto-translational space branching. Furthermore, we devise a batched BnB algorithm to fully leverage GPU parallel processing. Through experiments in simul…