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Astronomers reveal first image of the black hole at the heart of our galaxy
The first images of the supermassive black hole at the heart of Sgr A reveal that this black hole is very different from the one at the heart of M87.
Nim 1.0
The Nim Team is very proud and happy to announce the much-anticipated version 1.0 of the language.
Building an Internet Scale Meme Search Engine
Anyone who’s spent any amount of time on the Internet has a good idea of how prevalent meme usage has become in online discourse. Finding new memes on the latest happening and sharing them with various friend groups to share in the humor is a long-enjoyed pastime of mine. Working in tech and in the InfoSec field has…
Slack AI Training with Customer Data
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You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a legacy project (2023)
Everybody hates working on legacy projects, me as well. Working on one, however, helped me get a deeper understanding of the dev process.
Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub
Stacked pull requests break large changes into small, reviewable pull requests. They’re an ordered series of pull requests that each represent focused layers of your change. With stacks, you can…
Leanstral: Open-source agent for trustworthy coding and formal proof engineering
The most powerful AI platform for enterprises. Customize, fine-tune, and deploy AI assistants, autonomous agents, and multimodal AI with open models.
Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025
Cloudflare experienced a significant traffic outage on December 5, 2025, starting approximately at 8:47 UTC. The incident lasted approximately 25 minutes before resolution. We are sorry for the impact that it caused to our customers and the Internet. The incident was not caused by an attack and was due to…
YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin
Recently, YouTube has been ramping up its anti-adblock effort, and I’ve been watching this closely. This blog post is where I write down what I know. Some...
Prism
Prism is a free LaTeX-native workspace with GPT-5.2 built in, helping researchers write, collaborate, and reason in one place.
Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats
In early results from our new life sciences research lab, Claude agents found an enzyme system whose function is still unknown.
Product Updates Based on Your Feedback
We recently made a change to simplify the way Chrome handles sign-in. Now, when you sign into any Google website, you’re also signed into Chrome with the same account. Y…
Improving Firefox Responsiveness on macOS
If you're running Firefox on macOS you might have noticed that its responsiveness has improved significantly in version 103.
HandBrake 1.0.0 Released
News and Project Updates!
Ruby 3.0
We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 3.0.0. From 2015 we developed hard toward Ruby 3, whose goal is performance, concurrency, and Typing. Especial...
Phoenix LiveView 1.0.0 is here
LiveView 1.0 is out!
Why does it take so long to release black fan versions?
Wonder why chromax.black fans take longer to launch? Black colouring additives alter how advanced polymers mould, meaning they require entirely new toolings and months of testing.
Firefox 59 to strip path information from referrer values for 3rd parties
Starting in version 59, Firefox Private Browsing will remove path data from Referrers sent to third parties. This will help prevent accidentally leaking data to third parties.
Gemini: Google's most capable AI model yet
Gemini is our most capable and general model, built to be multimodal and optimized for three different sizes: Ultra, Pro and Nano.
Digital books wear out faster than physical books
Ever try to read a physical book passed down in your family from 100 years ago? Probably worked well. Ever try reading an ebook you paid for 10 years ago? Probably a different experience. From the leasing business model of mega publishers to physical device evolution to format obsolescence, digital books are fragile…
Don't DRY Your Code Prematurely
This is another post in our Code Health series. A version of this post originally appeared in Google bathrooms worldwide as a Google Tes...