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WordPress Adds Automated Plugin Reviews to Block High-Risk Updates Before Distribution

WordPress has announced it's launching an automated security review for every release of a plugin before it's distributed through the WordPress.org update API so as to analyze it for potential security issues and ensure there are no risks involved. "New plugins are reviewed before they enter the directory, but updates ship continuously after that," David Perez, WordPress Official Plugin

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Google Cloud Blog

Agent-ready analytics: Unlocking insights with BigQuery augmented analytics

BigQuery now features a suite of augmented analytics Table-Valued Functions (TVFs) designed to automate complex data analysis at scale. Augmented analytics combines AI, ML and statistical methods to automate insight discovery and pattern explanation. These functions allow you to diagnose why metrics changed, uncover underlying trends and relationships across the data, and even isolate the true impact of business decisions.  These TVFs run directly where your data lives, which helps speed up anal

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Google Cloud Blog

Announcing Pause/Resume and NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPU support in Dataflow

Overview As enterprises scale their AI and agentic workflows, they require serverless platforms that make data preparation for model training, evaluation, and inference effortless and efficient. Dataflow is a critical component of Google Cloud’s AI stack. It enables our customers to create batch and streaming pipelines that support a variety of analytics and AI use cases.  Today, we’re delivering significant enhancements to Dataflow that directly address your top challenges: maximizing compute e

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Google Cloud Blog

Google is a leader in The Forrester Wave™: Public Cloud Platforms, Q3 2026

We are excited to share that Google Cloud was named a Leader and received the highest score in the ‘current offering’ category in the Forrester Wave™: Public Cloud Platforms, Q3 2026 report, which examines the 10 most significant public cloud providers across 30 comprehensive criteria, Google also received the highest possible score in 23 out of 30 evaluation criteria, including, but not limited to vision, innovation, AI development services, database services, analytics services, containers and

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Google AI Blog

DevFest is back

DevFest 2026 is back and here’s how you can connect with one of the more than 800 global events to build, secure, and scale in the agentic AI era.

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DZone

Porting GPU Drivers to Rust on ARM64: The Hardest Trial for Kernel-Level Computing

Rust Has Entered the Kernel. Now Comes the Dangerous Part. A kernel driver does not fail politely. It does not throw a friendly exception, generate a neat stack trace, and ask whether you would like to restart. It corrupts memory, wedges hardware, leaks secrets, freezes the compositor, and leaves engineers spelunking through logs at 2 a.m. with the emotional range of a haunted printer.

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