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How Google Cloud is protecting the software supply chain in its increasing complexity

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The software supply chain is not linear or simplistic: It is made up of many different components introduced at different times and in different phases.

And, today’s software supply chains only continue to grow in complexity — a mix of proprietary, open-source and third-party code, configurations, binaries, libraries, plugins and other dependencies.

Artificial Human Embryos Are Coming, and No One Knows How to Handle Them

What drew his attention was that the cells seemed to change much faster than expected—they arranged themselves rapidly over a few days into a lopsided circle.

What was it? Shao startled Googling to see if he could identify the structure. That’s when he landed on a website called The Virtual Human Embryo and found some microscope photos of ten-day old human embryos shortly after implantation, fused to the uterine wall. There was the beginning of the amniotic sac and, inside it, the embryonic disc, or future body. They matched what he was seeing.

Shao informed his coworkers, a mixed team of biologists and engineers, at the University of Michigan. “When I showed the image to the team, everyone said, ” Wow, we need to figure out what to do,” says Shao. Had they somehow made a real human embryo from stem cells? ” At that point, we started to be more cautious.”

Creepiest things AI has predicted — from the apocalypse to last selfie on Earth

AI programs are not crystal balls.


If you’ve ever wondered what the apocalypse would look like in the United States, artificial intelligence has been asked to predict it.

Popular TikTok accounts like “Robot Overloards” have been asking AI to predict futuristic events, including the demise of humanity and the apocalypse.

The images include futuristic cities that looked deserted and crumbling.

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