Category: Google

Apache disclosed Log4Shell on December 9–10, 2021. As I write this, that’s closing in on five years ago — long enough that it should be ancient history, a war story security teams tell new hires. It isn’t. Talk to...

Somewhere this quarter, a team spun up a cluster of GPU instances for a training run, left them running over a long weekend because nobody wrote down whose job it was to tear them down, and walked into Monday with a bill that...

TL;DR: Zero-knowledge proofs let you prove a chess move was legal, or that a game ended in checkmate, without revealing the moves themselves. A small cluster of hackathon projects and research efforts — zkautochess, a Mina-based...

Seven Essays on Ranking, Relevance, and the Future of Discovery Series thesis Every social or entertainment product makes a promise about what deserves a person’s attention. Ranking is where that promise becomes...

Gaze control has always felt like a luxury feature. The good hardware, such as Tobii bars, dedicated IR trackers, costs more than the games you’d play with it, and every tutorial seems to assume you already own one. So I...

AI agents do not fail like ordinary request handlers. They fail across tools, retries, handoffs, and parallel branches. Traditional logs are still useful, but an uncorrelated stream of log lines no longer matches the shape of...

In the second part of this series we covered the core idea behind TOR, why privacy was never built in and why VPNs can be a bad opsec (operational security) choice, while walking through some real world case studies. If you...

AI agents that are breaking out into external systems are indications that they are not aligned enough.Alignment to human values for AI agents mean that they should also be able to face consequences like humans do in society if...

By Chris Gale As opposition to data center development spreads across the country, the industry is reaching for familiar tools: more project briefings, more public meetings, more fact sheets, more economic-impact claims. Those...

1. Why Migrate the Database? In the early stages of our business, we used PostgreSQL as both an OLTP and analytical database, deployed and maintained on our own infrastructure. In day-to-day operations, however, maintaining high...