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The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and student outreach programs. The internet has changed the way we live, work, and communicate. However, it can turn into a source of frustration when pages load slowly. At the heart of this issue lies the encoding of images. To improve on this, we are introducing Jpegli, an advanced JPEG coding library that maintains hig

The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and student outreach programs. Today we are open-sourcing Magika, Google’s AI-powered file-type identification system, to help others accurately detect binary and textual file types. Under the hood, Magika employs a custom, highly optimized deep-learning model, enabling precise file identification within milliseconds, eve

The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and student outreach programs. We are excited to announce the second group of winners for the 2023 Google Open Source Peer Bonus Program! This program recognizes external open source contributors who have been nominated by Googlers for their exceptional contributions to open source projects. The Google Open Source Peer Bo

The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and student outreach programs. Android is an open source operating system that is freely available to port to many devices and architectures. As such it supports many different device types and CPU architectures. We’re excited to be adding a new one to that list - RISC-V. RISC-V is a free and open instruction set architec

The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and student outreach programs. Reaching version 1.0 in just 2015, Rust is a relatively new language with a lot to offer. Developers eyeing the performance and safety guarantees that Rust provides, have to wonder if it's possible to just use Rust in place of what they've been using previously. What would happen if large co

The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and student outreach programs. ML development and deployment today suffer from fragmented and siloed infrastructure that can differ by framework, hardware, and use case. Such fragmentation restrains developer velocity and imposes barriers to model portability, efficiency, and productionization. Today, we’re taking a signi

The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and student outreach programs. We are excited to introduce Service Weaver, an open source framework for building and deploying distributed applications. Service Weaver allows you to write your application as a modular monolith and deploy it as a set of microservices. More concretely, Service Weaver consists of two core pi

The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and student outreach programs. As we find ourselves increasingly surrounded by smart devices that collect and process information from their environment, it's more important now than ever that we have a simple solution to build verifiably secure systems for embedded hardware. If the devices around us can't be mathematical

The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and student outreach programs. Since we open sourced the first version of Lyra on GitHub last year, we are delighted to see a vibrant community growing around it, with thousands of stars, hundreds of forks, and many comments and pull requests. There are people who fixed and formatted our code, built continuous integration

The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and student outreach programs. We believe in the power of choice for Machine Learning development, and continue to invest resources to make it easy for ML practitioners to train, deploy, and orchestrate models from a single unified data and AI cloud platform. We’re excited to announce our role as a founding member of the

The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and student outreach programs. Today we're sharing open source code that can sort arrays of numbers about ten times as fast as the C++ std::sort, and outperforms state of the art architecture-specific algorithms, while being portable across all modern CPU architectures. Below we discuss how we achieved this. First, some b

We are very excited to reward 25 open source contributors, specifically, for their work on Rust projects! At Google, Open Source lies at the core of not only our processes but also many of our products. While we try to directly contribute upstream as much as possible, the Google Open Source Peer Bonus program is designed to reward external open source contributors for their outstanding contributio

Networks are all around us from the electrical circuits inside our computers to the multitude of internet servers that route packets of data around the globe. Even the web itself is a network of pages connected to each other by a myriad of blue links. A network's structure is referred to as its topology. Network topologies can be physical or logical, centralized or decentralized, and fully or part

The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and student outreach programs. Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have been around for decades and historically, the development of their specific toolchains happened in separate ecosystems that were driven by the vendors themselves. This has changed in recent years with the development of vendor-neutral open source t

The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and student outreach programs. We are pleased to announce that in 2022 we’re broadening our scope of Google Summer of Code (GSoC) with exciting new updates to the program. For 17 years, GSoC has focused on bringing new open source contributors into OSS communities big and small. GSoC has brought over 18,000 university stu

The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and student outreach programs. From executive orders to key signing parties, 2021 has been the year of supply chain security. If you’re an open source maintainer, learning about the attack surface of your project and the threat vectors throughout your project’s supply chain can feel overwhelming, maybe even insurmountable

The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and student outreach programs. How do you manage SSH access to a fleet of hosts? While OpenSSH provides many methods from a simple password to the use of certificates, each of these on its own still presents challenges. Let's start by clarifying the difference between Authentication and Authorization. The former is a way

The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and student outreach programs. Data validation is a crucial step in data warehouse, database, or data lake migration projects. It involves comparing structured or semi-structured data from the source and target tables and verifying that they match after each migration step (e.g data and schema migration, SQL script transl

The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and student outreach programs. Open Source InsightsGoogle has been working on software supply-chain security for many years, and transitive dependencies remain one of the most complex and least understood aspects. While we will be integrating this data into our Cloud and internal products in a variety of ways, we believe

The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and student outreach programs. The past year has shown just how vital online communication is to our lives. Never before has it been more important to clearly understand one another online, regardless of where you are and whatever network conditions are available. That’s why in February we introduced Lyra: a revolutionary

Rust is a systems programming language that combines low-level control over performance with modern language features and a focus on memory safety. Memory safety has been an enduring challenge for software developers, particularly those working on systems programs. Google has begun using Rust in settings where memory safety and performance are key considerations, including in key Android systems.

The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and student outreach programs. We are excited to launch OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities), our first step towards improving vulnerability triage for developers and consumers of open source software. The goal of OSV is to provide precise data on where a vulnerability was introduced and where it got fixed, thereby helping c

The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and student outreach programs. Open Sourcing Tilt Brush Tilt Brush, Google's virtual reality painting application, has collaborated with amazing creators over the years, many of whom were part of our Artist in Residence Program. We have tremendous pride for all those collaborations, and the best part has been watching our

The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and student outreach programs. Open source software (OSS) has long suffered from a "tragedy of the commons" problem. Most organizations, large and small, make use of open source software every day to build modern products, but many OSS projects are struggling for the time, resources and attention they need. This is a reso