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Google on Monday donated $1 million to the Rust Foundation specifically to improve interoperability between the language and C++. C++, a popular general purpose programming language, has arguably fallen out of fashion due to concerns over safety. Memory safety errors are the source of the majority of vulnerabilities for Google and Microsoft, and this has led to evangelism for memory-safe Rust and a scarlet letter for C/C++. “Based on historical vulnerability density statistics,… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google launching virtual try-on experience for foundation & hair dye  Search Engine Land Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]How Russia’s liberal tech companies became the foundation of …  Kyiv Independent Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]New Black Lives Matter tax documents show foundation is tightening its belt, has $30M in assets  Yahoo News Source link

On Giving Tuesday, known as “the biggest celebration of generosity” that is celebrating its 10th anniversary, Google Pixel announced that they will be contributing $1 million to the NBA Foundation. This donation is the largest for the Foundation to date from an NBA partner.  Similar to the NBA Foundation, Google Pixel has had a history of supporting Historically Black colleges and universities. The partnership between Google Pixel and the NBA dates back to 2021, when Google Pixel was… Source link

JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) – The holiday spirit is already flowing for one foundation in Jackson after receiving a grant from Google. “Christmas came a lot early for us with this award,” Pauline Rogers, director of the Reaching and Educating Community Hope (RECH) Foundation said. In June, Google announced it was investing $4 million towards a new fund that aims to expand the company’s justice reform work. Thousands of nonprofit organizations across the country applied to receive support from… Source link

Google is paying the Wikimedia Foundation to help serve up the most accurate and up-to-date information on its search engine. The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit group behind Wikipedia, says Google is one of the first companies to buy into its commercial Enterprise service. Launched last year, Wikimedia Enterprise allows customers (like Google) who reuse massive chunks of information from Wikimedia’s services to access its content more efficiently. Instead of relying on free data… Source link

The OpenInfra Foundation, the open-source foundation that used to be the OpenStack Foundation until it expanded its scope beyond its flagship project a few years ago, today announced an interesting new way for companies to fund open-source projects inside the foundation. Traditionally, corporate members of open-source foundations support the organization by paying a membership fee, which, for the most part, the foundations then distribute as they see fit. Now, with its new ‘Directed Funding’… Source link

This has been a long time coming: Google today announced that it is submitting its Istio service mesh project for consideration as an incubating project within the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Google’s Kubernetes has long been the flagship project for the CNCF and the company recently also brought Knative, a project that aims to make it easier to build and deploy serverless applications on top of Kubernetes, to the CNCF as well. It’s maybe no surprise then that Istio,… Source link

Biden administration officials and Democrat senators are considering a suspension of the federal fuel tax in order to combat record inflation levels ahead of the Federal Reserve’s planned rate hikes. The proposition has received bipartisan pushback from legislators who are skeptical about the efficacy of a gas tax holiday. According to the Tax Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank which collects data and publishes research studies on U.S. tax policies at both the federal and state… Source link