Cloud Computing

DeFied Expectations — Examining Web3 Heists

Written by: Robert Wallace, Blas Kojusner, Joseph Dobson Where money goes, crime follows. The rapid growth of Web3 has presented new opportunities for threat actors, especially in decentralized finance (DeFi), where the heists are larger and more numerous than anything seen in the traditional finance sector. Mandiant has a long history of investigating bank heists. […]

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New benchmarks for securing ChromeOS from the Center for Internet Security

As the way people work continues to evolve, keeping security policies in place that protect organizations but give workers the ability to get things done, wherever work happens, is more important than ever. IT and security teams must aim to stay a step ahead of web-based security threats that come their organization’s way. To help,

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GenOps: learning from the world of microservices and traditional DevOps

Who is supposed to manage generative AI applications? While AI-related ownership often lands with data teams, we’re seeing requirements specific to generative AI applications that have distinct differences from those of a data and AI team, and at times more similarities with a DevOps team. This blog post explores these similarities and differences, and considers

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Instant snapshots: protect Compute Engine workloads from errors and corruption

Imagine you’re an application administrator performing an application upgrade within  a one-hour maintenance window, when all of a sudden the upgrade fails. You now want to initiate your rollback procedures. The normal course of action in the rollback is to recover from regular snapshots; this takes several minutes to complete, depending on how much data

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Emerging startups working with Google Cloud to fuel the next wave of innovation

In today’s fast-paced startup ecosystem, securing the right resources and support can be the difference between surviving and thriving. Google Cloud wants to continue to invest in and support emerging startups, fostering innovation on a global scale. Google Cloud is empowering high-potential startups with a comprehensive suite of resources and opportunities, including: Mentorship and guidance:

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Google Cloud launches Memorystore for Valkey, a 100% open-source key-value service

Editor’s note: Ping Xie is a Valkey maintainer on the Valkey Technical Steering Committee (TSC) The Memorystore team is thrilled to announce the preview launch of Valkey 7.2 support on Memorystore to provide users with a truly open-source and high performance key-value service. The introduction of Memorystore for Valkey into the Memorystore portfolio alongside Memorystore

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Mobile Observability: monitoring performance through cracked screens, old batteries, and crappy Wi-Fi

Today we chat with Austin Emmons, an iOS developer at Embrace, where he spent time rebuilding their SDK to work with OpenTelemetry. He discusses the challenge of tracking performance and watching for edge cases when your app is deployed across dozens of devices with enormous variability in their hardware, software, and network capabilities.

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A developer’s guide to getting started with Imagen 3 on Vertex AI

Over the past few months, early users put Imagen 3 on Vertex AI through its paces and shared valuable insights with us. It’s clear that users want an AI model that generates stunning visuals and empowers your practical creative applications. We’ve used their feedback to identify three common themes: Demand for unparalleled quality across diverse

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