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Google's Open Knowledge Format (OKF), Explained: Markdown Files That Agents Can Trust

Google Cloud's new spec for agent knowledge is a folder of markdown files with a few lines of YAML on top. Here is what is in the file, what v0.2 added, and where it differs from a vector index.

Aliteq Team · Oct 3 · 8 min

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"Sign in with Google" never gives the app your Google password — here's the trade

You approve on Google's page, the app gets a token and a little profile info, and that's one less password anyone can leak. Why it's often the safer button.

Aliteq Team · Sep 26 · 4 min

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Google's new AI can read your body fat from two phone photos — and it beats your smartwatch

PhotoScan is still a research prototype, but its accuracy already lands closer to a real DXA scan than the sensor in your smartwatch.

Aliteq Team · Aug 23 · 6 min

Software

tech layoffs in 2026 have already beaten all of last year — and it's only August

Over 125,000 tech workers have lost their jobs so far this year, more than the entirety of 2025, as Zillow, TikTok, Etsy and Google all announced cuts within days of each other.

Aliteq Team · Aug 13 · 5 min

Software

chrome just shipped 370 security fixes in one update — and found the scariest ones itself

no external researcher gets credit for the four ugliest bugs in Chrome 151 — Google's own team found them first, patched them, and shipped before anyone could weaponize a single one.

Aliteq Team · Aug 2 · 6 min

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what hardware runs Google's Gemma 3? the VRAM math for every size, from a laptop to a 24GB card

Gemma 3 comes in sizes from tiny to 27B, and each has a very different hardware requirement. Here's exactly what you need to run each one — and which fits the card you already have.

Aliteq Team · Jul 30 · 9 min