Cloud Computing

Spanner in 2025: Innovations powering intelligent, multi-model AI applications

For over a decade now, Google has relied on Spanner, an always-on, virtually unlimited database to power global-scale applications like Gmail, YouTube, and Google Photos. Today, Spanner handles over 6 billion queries per second at peak and more than 17 exabytes of data, with five 9s of availability, plus global consistency.  2025 was a big […]

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No Place Like Home Network: Disrupting the World’s Largest Residential Proxy Network

Introduction  This week Google and partners took action to disrupt what we believe is one of the largest residential proxy networks in the world, the IPIDEA proxy network. IPIDEA’s proxy infrastructure is a little-known component of the digital ecosystem leveraged by a wide array of bad actors. This disruption, led by Google Threat Intelligence Group

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Future Mode Part 1: The intelligent and secure browser for enterprises

Editor’s Note: Our Future Mode series will give businesses insight into how Chrome Enterprise is approaching AI in the browser. Stay tuned for more blogs in this series. For the modern enterprise, the browser has already evolved beyond a simple application and has become the primary workspace where collaboration happens, sensitive data is accessed and

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Diverse Threat Actors Exploiting Critical WinRAR Vulnerability CVE-2025-8088

Introduction  The Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has identified widespread, active exploitation of the critical vulnerability CVE-2025-8088 in WinRAR, a popular file archiver tool for Windows, to establish initial access and deliver diverse payloads. Discovered and patched in July 2025, government-backed threat actors linked to Russia and China as well as financially motivated threat actors

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Spy vs spy at scale

Ryan welcomes Anthony Vinci, former senior intelligence officer and author of The Fourth Intelligence Revolution, to explore AI’s evolving role in intelligence in places like translation and image analysis, the challenges of evolving modern tech into government infrastructure, and the importance of democratized intelligence so citizens can keep themselves and loved ones safe.

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BigQuery AI supports Gemini 3.0, simplified embedding generation and new similarity function

The digital landscape is flooded with unstructured data — images, videos, audio, and documents — that often remain untapped. To help you unlock this data’s potential with minimal friction, we have integrated Gemini and other Vertex AI models directly into BigQuery, simplifying how you work with generative AI and embedding models using BigQuery SQL.New launches

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