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Earlier this month, Google's cloud platform deleted the entire customer account, including some backups, of UniSuper. Why it matters: Fortunately for the $135 billion Australian pension fund's 647,000 members, some of UniSuper's backups on Google Cloud's servers and elsewhere were salvageable, and the fund was able to recover its data, teaching us all a lesson about having multiple redundancies. What they're saying: This was not a "systemic issue," Google says. "An inadvertent misconfiguration" during a setup left a data field blank, which then triggered the system to automatically delete the account. The big picture: Google is having a rough 2024....

Google lost a lawsuit and will now have to pay $1 million to a female Google Cloud executive who sued the company for “sexual discrimination.” The employee, Google Cloud executive Ulku Rowe, alleged she was paid less than less-experienced male counterparts in similar positions. An eight-person jury found Google guilty after five hours of deliberation... the jurors said Google owes Rowe $150,000 for pain and suffering and $1 million in punitive damages. “Rowe’s suit is the first pay discrimination case filed against Google after the mass walkouts in 2018 during which hundreds of Google workers protested how the tech company...

Everything I have outlined about Twitter is going to surface as accurate over time. There are two major elements: (1) DHS govt influence, now evidenced in the Twitter Files; and (2) the Twitter financial issues, which explain the recent hiring of Linda Yaccarino, which are soon to surface. Yesterday, Elon Musk responded to criticism of Twitter censorship, vis-a-vis government demands, with this Tweet: “Please point out where we had an actual choice and we will reverse it.” The Musk supporters are saying Musk has to comply with government demands if their national laws require it. However, that angle doesn’t take...

Google said its cloud group has turned profitable on an operating basis after showing losses for more than three years. Google is third in the U.S. cloud infrastructure market, behind Amazon and Microsoft. Google has been pouring money into its cloud-computing business to compete with Amazon and Microsoft . Those hefty investments are finally turning a profit. Alphabet said Tuesday that Google’s cloud business is profitable for the first time in the three years it’s been reporting operating metrics for the division. The segment generated $191 million in operating income on $7.45 billion in revenue in the first quarter, according...

Update (1330ET): Internet tracking website NetBlocks confirms the widespread internet outage is "due to a Google Cloud Networking technical fault; incident not related to country-level internet disruptions or filtering."ℹ️ Note: Several online services including Spotify, Snapchat and Etsy have been experiencing international outages due to a Google Cloud Networking technical fault; incident not related to country-level internet disruptions or filtering pic.twitter.com/KGfLKfgcUN — NetBlocks (@netblocks) November 16, 2021Here's Google Cloud Status Dashboard laying out the errors. The outage has left 29k website offline worldwide. * * * Downdector reports dozens of major websites began experiencing disruptions or outages around 1240 ET....