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  • Cloud Blog: Our approach to carbon-aware data centers: Central data center fleet management

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/sustainability/googles-approach-to-carbon-aware-data-center/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Our approach to carbon-aware data centers: Central data center fleet management Feedly Summary: Data centers are the engines of the cloud, processing and storing the information that powers our daily lives. As digital services grow, so do our data centers and we are working to responsibly manage them.…

  • Cloud Blog: BigQuery under the hood: The power of the Column Metadata index aka CMETA

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/understanding-the-bigquery–column-metadata-cmeta-index/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: BigQuery under the hood: The power of the Column Metadata index aka CMETA Feedly Summary: While petabyte-scale data warehouses are becoming more common, getting the performance you need without escalating costs and effort remain key challenges, even in a modern cloud data warehouse. While many data warehouse platform…

  • Microsoft Security Blog: Microsoft ranked number one in modern endpoint security market share third year in a row

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    Source URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/08/27/microsoft-ranked-number-one-in-modern-endpoint-security-market-share-third-year-in-a-row/ Source: Microsoft Security Blog Title: Microsoft ranked number one in modern endpoint security market share third year in a row Feedly Summary: For a third year a row, Microsoft has been named the number one leader for endpoint security market share, as featured in a new IDC report. The post Microsoft ranked…

  • Cloud Blog: Happy birthday, GKE! Let’s celebrate with new features and better pricing

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/gke-gets-new-pricing-and-capabilities-on-10th-birthday/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Happy birthday, GKE! Let’s celebrate with new features and better pricing Feedly Summary: “While containers make packaging apps easier, a powerful cluster manager and orchestration system is necessary to bring your workloads to production.” Ten years ago, these words opened the blog post announcing Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Qwen3-4B Instruct and Thinking

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/6/qwen3-4b-instruct-and-thinking/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Qwen3-4B Instruct and Thinking Feedly Summary: Qwen3-4B Instruct and Thinking Yet another interesting model from Qwen—these are tiny compared to their other recent releases (just 4B parameters, 7.5GB on Hugging Face and even smaller when quantized) but with a 262,144 context length, which Qwen suggest is essential…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Mistral-Small 3.2

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/20/mistral-small-32/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Mistral-Small 3.2 Feedly Summary: Mistral-Small 3.2 Released on Hugging Face a couple of hours ago, so far there aren’t any quantizations to run it on a Mac but I’m sure those will emerge pretty quickly. This is a minor bump to Mistral Small 3.1, one of my…

  • Cloud Blog: C4D now GA: up to 80% higher performance for your business critical workloads

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/c4d-vms-unparalleled-performance-for-business-workloads/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: C4D now GA: up to 80% higher performance for your business critical workloads Feedly Summary: We’re excited to announce the general availability of our next-generation C4D virtual machine family. Powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors (Turin) paired with Google Titanium’s latest advancements, C4D provides customers with meaningful…

  • Cloud Blog: From analytics to data management: New BigQuery transactional features

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/bigquery-features-for-transactional-data-management/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: From analytics to data management: New BigQuery transactional features Feedly Summary: For years, BigQuery has been synonymous with fully managed, fast, petabyte-scale analytics. Its columnar architecture and decoupled storage and compute have made it the go-to data warehouse for deriving insights from massive datasets.  But what about the…