Data Loss At Google Reader, from TechCrunch.

Some feeds have been deleted from people’s accounts, but they are coming back. This is another perfect example to emphasize the importance of backup. :)

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Microsoft flags Gmail as a virus, form News.com.

From late last week until Sunday night, the Windows Live OneCare security software incorrectly flagged the Google e-mail service as a threat.

A warning popped up when OneCare users opened the Gmail Web site, telling them that their systems were infected with a virus called “BAT/BWG.A.”

It seems that Microsoft gotta long long way to go due to high false positive rate.

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Google Video Delivering Berkeley Courses, from InsideGoogle.

Google Video has struck a deal to provide videos of University of California at Berkeley courses and symposia, over 250 hours of video.

They’ve got their own page featuring their videos, divided up by course. Right there on the front page is a video of Google founder Sergey Brin talking to an Information Systems 141 class about, of course, search engines.

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Google testing Sun’s OpenSolaris, sources say, from digg.

Google is experimenting with the open-source version of Sun Microsystems Inc.’s Solaris operating system as a possible long-term prelude to replacing its massive global network of Linux servers, according to sources.

With dozens of data centers worldwide estimated to house hundreds of thousands of Intel servers, this would be huge for Solaris.

Google runs a stripped-down version of Red Hat Linux specially modified by its engineers. But another source, a Solaris systems administrator who recently interviewed for a job at Google, said he was told the company plans to create and test its own modified version of OpenSolaris.

Google officials declined to comment.

Dtrace http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DTrace
Zones http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris_Containers
ZFS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS

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Andrew Moves To Google, from KernelTrap.

With the release of the 2.6.18-rc3-mm1 kernel, Andrew Morton, a Linux kernel developer to maintain a patchset known as the -mm tree, has taken a position with Google in August of 2006.

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Google Warns Users About “Unsafe Sites”, from Slashdot.

“The BBC is reporting that Google will start to warn users about unsafe websites, in particular those that host spyware or have privacy implications.

The technology to do this has been developed in partnership with StopBadware, and appears to be an alternative to the popular McAfee SiteAdvisor application.

Perhaps this will help curtail slimeware ridden sites from peddling their wares. But it will be interesting to see how Google rates some of its own products, including the potentially risky Google Desktop.”

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Google Releases Picasa For Linux, from InsideGoogle.

It should run on any of these Linux distros running on a an x86 compatible processor:

• Debian Sarge
• Debian Etch
• Fedora Core 4
• Fedora Core 5
• Linspire 5
• Mandriva 2006
• Mandriva 2005
• Red Hat Workstation 3
• Red Hat Workstation
• Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger)
• SuSE 9.3
• SuSE 10.0

Popularity: 13% [?]