2023-03-26
Today we lost one of the true giants of our field. Since his contributions spanned so many decades, few today realize how enormous Moore's impact on the entire industry was. “Moore's Law” was a vision and a message, not a law, and he made it real. 🧵 https://www.intc.com/...
Intel
Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, the author of Moore's Law, dies at 94
and the world it created Bloomberg : Gordon Moore, Intel Co-Founder Who Coined Chip Rule, Dies at 94 Aman Gupta / Livemint : Who was Gordon Moore? 10 things to know about the Intel...
2023-03-25
Today we lost one of the true giants of our field. Since his contributions spanned so many decades, few today realize how enormous Moore's impact on the entire industry was. “Moore's Law” was a vision and a message, not a law, and he made it real. 🧵 https://www.intc.com/...
Intel
Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, the author of Moore's Law, dies at 94
Intel and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation announced today that company co-founder Gordon Moore has passed away at the age of 94. — The foundation reported he died peacefull...
2023-01-10
Truly astounding history of security bugs... https://krebsonsecurity.com/ ...
Krebs on Security
Up until late December 2022, hackers were using a flaw in Experian's site to get anyone's entire credit report using only their name, address, birthday, and SSN
2022-10-03
Great weekend reading: the history of NTP, keeping clocks synchronized across the internet. https://www.newyorker.com/...
New Yorker
A profile of David Mills, who created the Network Time Protocol in the 1980s, as about two dozen Internet Engineering Task Force contributors work toward NTPv5
2022-10-02
Great weekend reading: the history of NTP, keeping clocks synchronized across the internet. https://www.newyorker.com/...
New Yorker
A profile of David Mills, who created the Network Time Protocol in the 1980s, as about two dozen Internet Engineering Task Force contributors work toward NTPv5
An obscure software system synchronizes the network's clocks. Who will keep it running? — In 1977, David Mills … Tweets: @hkanji , @nicolasnova , @yminsky , @hannahseidlitz , @u...
2021-10-13
Climate change is one of the hardest problems we face. But it's never been easier to analyze geospatial data. In tomorrow's developer keynote you'll see an Earth Engine demo that would have been a billion-dollar project 20 years ago. Amazing. @google https://blog.google/...
Fast Company
Q&A with Sundar Pichai, Thomas Kurian, and other Google executives on Google Cloud's new sustainability features, which help customers track emissions, and more
and reduce—your environmental impact Alex Woodie / Datanami : Google Cloud Gives Spanner a PostgreSQL Interface Tweets: @googleearth : Google #EarthEngine is now available in previ...
2021-10-06
Lots of new ways to help users make more sustainable choices. My favorite one probably is the Nest Energy Shift feature that maximizes the amount of carbon free energy you're using. https://blog.google/...
The Verge
Google announces updates to Search, Maps, Travel, and Nest, focusing on reducing greenhouse gas emissions for users
There are updates to Search, Maps, Travel, Nest, and more — Google announced a suite of new features that it says will help people who use their platforms make more sustainable c...
2021-04-23
Amusing security analysis of a cell phone “forensics” tool, which turns out to be not so secure itself. https://twitter.com/...
VICE
Signal's CEO says he analyzed a Cellebrite device, used to extract data from phones, that fell off a truck, and it is full of easily exploitable security flaws
2021-02-04
Submarine optics have made a lot of progress in the past decade, and I'm happy that an excellent, small team of Googlers had a hand in that. 250TB in a single cable is nothing to sneeze at, even if it stops short of landing in Switzerland 😉 https://twitter.com/...
VentureBeat
Google and its partner SubCom say the Dunant subsea cable between US and France is now operational; the 4,000-mile cable can carry 250 terabits/second
2020-11-21
If you need to see something uplifting for a change, and have 5 minutes, watch this. “It's literally the first time I've run free for...decades.” https://blog.google/...
VentureBeat
Google is testing Project Guideline, an AI-powered system that enables navigation guidance for low-vision people, allowing them to run races by themselves
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
2020-07-22
11 new G Suite security features. My favorite: verified company logos in GMail, to make phishing harder. We're proposing a new open standard (https://bimigroup.org/) so all email services can benefit from it. https://cloud.google.com/...
Google Cloud Blog
Google unveils G Suite security features including support in Gmail for BIMI standard for brands, new controls for Meet hosts, and ability to block Chat Rooms
Neil Kumaran / Google Cloud Blog :
2020-01-04
Great summary of the Nature paper that shows promise in using Cloud ML to help diagnose breast cancer. There's still a long way to go but Google is partnering with leading medical centers to develop a real-world diagnostic tool. https://twitter.com/...
New York Times
Google says its AI model found breast cancer in screening mammograms with fewer false positives and fewer false negatives than human experts found
Denise Grady / New York Times :
2020-01-03
Great summary of the Nature paper that shows promise in using Cloud ML to help diagnose breast cancer. There's still a long way to go but Google is partnering with leading medical centers to develop a real-world diagnostic tool. https://twitter.com/...
New York Times
Google says its AI has made significant improvements at reading mammograms to detect breast cancer in a research study of images from around 90K cases
Computers that are trained to recognize patterns and interpret images may outperform humans at finding cancer on X-rays.
2019-12-09
The bad news: a targeted attack on your account costs $100-300. The good news: Gmail/Google is the most expensive because it has the best security :-) Plus, a Security Key defeats all of these attacks since they're phishing based. So get one already! https://cacm.acm.org/...
Communications of the ACM
Report on the hack-for-hire market: attacks that phish 2FA to access email accounts cost $100-$400; such attacks can be prevented with physical security keys
Ariana Mirian / Communications of the ACM : Tweets: @uhoelzle and @dinodaizovi Tweets: Urs Hlzle / @uhoelzle : The bad news: a targeted attack on your account costs $100-300. The ...