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Google Cloud Blog

Building an agent skill optimizer with AlphaEvolve, Harbor and Gemini 4 Argon

Every day, more and more people are using coding agents like Google Antigravity and OpenCode to complete software engineering tasks. But those tools need instructions to operate and their output is only as good as the inputs they get. By utilizing agent skills that direct the agents through building, testing, and deploying code, developers have a powerful way to automate their workflows.  But most skills are written manually, so it’s hard to know which instructions are effective without assessin

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Google Cloud Blog

Semantic aggregation over millions of rows in BigQuery with AI.AGG

For more than a decade, BigQuery has helped set standards for structured data aggregation, calculating financial sums, counting active users, and computing historical averages at a petabyte scale in seconds. But as modern enterprises become inundated with unstructured data — application logs, customer service transcripts, product imagery, and diagnostic reports — a critical gap has emerged. Historically, relational SQL engines have lacked the native ability to aggregate, synthesize, and extract

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Google Cloud Blog

Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash: Fast, cost-effective, and reliable video generation and editing now generally available

Today, Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash is generally available on Google Cloud. Built for the everyday videos businesses make in volume — like product videos, virtual try-ons, and ads — this model is fast, cost-effective, and follows your image, video and audio references more closely than before.   Business users can create with it in Gemini for business and Google Vids, and developers can build with it via API. Here's what's new: A lower price: $0.07 per second of 720p video, 30% less than Gemini Omni 1.

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Vercel Blog

Vercel Schedules is now in public beta

is now in public beta on all plans. Run tasks on a recurring cadence or at a single point in time, in production, preview, or custom environments.Vercel Schedules Schedules in can target a private Vercel Function, an HTTP path, or a Vercel Queue topic, and schedules created at runtime target a Queue topic. Any schedule can be enabled, disabled, or run on demand without redeploying.vercel.json Define a static schedule: Adding a trigger makes the function private. It has no public URL and only t

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The Hacker News

OpenSSH Issues Emergency Fix for Flaw Letting Long Passwords Bypass SSH Auth on Alpine Linux

Attackers can log in to accounts that have no password, such as SSH key-only accounts, on some Alpine Linux servers running the standard openssh-server package. They need network access to the server, an account name, and a password between 257 and 1,024 bytes long. OpenSSH, which rates the flaw critical, released version 10.6p2 today to block it. Alpine has published fixed packages for every

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Researchers Bypass ChatGPT Lockdown Mode to Exfiltrate Chats Without User Interaction

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a now-patched vulnerability that could be exploited to bypass Lockdown Mode protections in OpenAI ChatGPT. Lockdown Mode was introduced by the artificial intelligence (AI) company in June 2026 as an optional setting to minimize data exfiltration risks arising from prompt injections. "The flaw could enable silent chat data theft, phishing,

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