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Log Analytics Feature in Cloud Logging Now Generally Available
Google recently made its Cloud Logging Log Analytics feature generally available (GA), allowing users to search, aggregate, and transform all log data types, including application, network, and audit logs.
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Google Storage Transfer Service Now Supports Serverless Real-Time Replication Capability
Recently Google announced the preview support for event-driven transfer capability for its Storage Transfer Service (STS), which allows users to move data from AWS S3 to Cloud Storage and copy data between multiple Cloud Storage buckets.
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Google AI Unveils Muse, a New Text-to-Image Transformer Model
Google AI released a research paper about Muse, a new Text-To-Image Generation via Masked Generative Transformers that can produce photos of a high quality comparable to those produced by rival models like the DALL-E 2 and Imagen at a rate that is far faster.
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Android Extension SDK Aims to Simplify the Use of Modular System Components
Introduced with Android 10, Modular System Components enable updating end-user devices outside of the normal Android release cycles. The new Extension SDK framework, now public, aims to make their integration simpler for developers.
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Google Publishes Technique for AI Language Model Self-Improvement
Researchers at Google and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) have published a technique called Language Model Self-Improved (LMSI), which fine-tunes a large language model (LLM) on a dataset generated by that same model. Using LMSI, the researchers improved the performance of the LLM on six benchmarks and set new state-of-the-art accuracy records on four of them.
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Google Releases Open-Source Vulnerability Scanning Tool
Google has released OSV-Scanner, an open-source front-end interface to the Open Source Vulnerability (OSV) database. The OSV database is a distributed, open-source database that stores vulnerability information in the OSV format. The OSV-Scanner assesses a project's dependencies against the OSV database showing all vulnerabilities relating to the project.
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Google's Code-as-Policies Lets Robots Write Their Own Code
Researchers from Google's Robotics team have open-sourced Code-as-Policies (CaP), a robot control method that uses a large language model (LLM) to generate robot-control code that achieves a user-specified goal. CaP uses a hierarchical prompting technique for code generation that outperforms previous methods on the HumanEval code-generation benchmark.
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Google Open-Sources Secure ML Operating System KataOS
Google's AmbiML team recently open-sourced KataOS, a provably secure operating system for embedded ML hardware. KataOS is based on the seL4 microkernel and is implemented in Rust. Along with KataOS, Google is releasing Sparrow, a reference implementation of the operating system targeted for a secure hardware platform based on the RISC-V architecture.
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Google Launches Relay to Transform and Accelerate Android UI Creation
Recently launched in alpha, Relay is a design-to-code solution aiming to radically transform the way UI designers and UI developers collaborate to create Android UI components by removing the need for UI specs.
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Google Introduces Cloud Workstations in Public Preview
Google introduced the public preview of Cloud Workstations during its Cloud Next event, which provides fully-managed and integrated development environments on the Google Cloud Platform.
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Google Production Excellence Program "ProdEx": Christof Leng at DOES 2022
Christof Leng, SRE lead at Google, presented ProdEx, their production excellence review program that helps manage operational risks and promote best practices. ProdEx is a community that builds platforms together, establishes standards and promotes best practices, so people learn from each others and grow. Today they have more than 100 SRE teams signed up and have performed more than 1000 reviews.
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GitLab Cloud Seed Aims to Simplify Google Cloud Integration
At Google Next '22, GitLab launched GitLab Cloud Seed, a new open-source solution integrated in GitLab One DevOps platform that aims to simplify Google Cloud account management, deployment to Google Cloud Run, and Google SQL database provisioning.
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Google Previews Log Analytics Feature in Its Cloud Logging Service
Google recently announced the preview of a new feature called Log Analytics in its Cloud Logging service, allowing companies to analyze data collected from their cloud environments.
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Android Gradle Plugin 8.0 Improves Build Times, Requires Updating Third-Party Plugins and Libraries
Google has announced the upcoming Android Gradle Plugin (AGP), version 8.0, reduces build times by removing the Transform APIs and replacing them through the Artifacts API and Instrumentation API. All third-party plugins and apps relying on them are required to migrate to the new APIs.
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Fitbit Health Solution and Google Cloud Introduce Device Connect for Fitbit
Fitbit Health Solutions and Google Cloud have recently announced the release of Device Connect for Fitbit, which will provide healthcare and life sciences enterprises with accelerated analytics and insights to help people live healthier lives.