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Earth Engine in BigQuery: Raster Analytics & Map Visuals

🌍 BigQuery now integrates Earth Engine, enabling analysts to run raster analytics and join satellite-derived imagery with vector data using familiar SQL workflows. Initial capabilities include the ST_RegionStats() geography function plus a curated set of ~20 Earth Engine raster datasets for land cover, weather and climate analysis. With general availability, Google Cloud adds EU regional deployment, an Image Details tab for enhanced metadata visibility, usage and quota controls, and a preview map visualization in BigQuery Studio to render GEOGRAPHY query results on Google Maps for interactive exploration and stakeholder-ready outputs.

Google Conversational Analytics API Brings Chat to Your Data

💬 The Conversational Analytics API lets developers embed natural‑language data queries and chat‑driven analysis directly into custom applications, internal tools, and workflows. It combines Google's AI, Looker’s semantic layer, and BigQuery context engineering to deliver data, chart, and text answers with trusted access controls. Features include agentic orchestration, a Python Code Interpreter, RAG‑assisted context engineering, and both stateful and stateless conversation modes. Enterprise controls such as RBAC, row‑ and column‑level access, and query limits are built in.

PAN-OS 12.1 Orion: Quantum-Ready Multicloud Security

🔐 PAN-OS 12.1 Orion delivers a framework for quantum-ready and multicloud security, combining automated asset discovery, continuous risk assessment and centralized management via Strata Cloud Manager. It introduces an industry-first cipher translation to make legacy applications quantum-safe, plus quantum-optimized fifth-generation NGFW hardware for high-scale PQC inspection. The release also expands AI-driven detections and one-click deployment across AWS/Azure/GCP.

Cost of Quantum Factoring for RSA: Updated Estimates

🧮 Google Quantum AI authors report that a future quantum computer with roughly one million noisy qubits running for about a week could theoretically factor a 2048-bit RSA key — a roughly 20× reduction in qubit requirements compared to their 2019 estimate. The improvement reflects both algorithmic advances (including approximate modular exponentiation and lower operation overhead) and error-correction gains. The post stresses the urgency of migrating to post-quantum cryptography (PQC) per NIST guidance, highlights deployment steps already taken in Chrome and Cloud KMS previews, and warns of “store now, decrypt later” risks for long-lived keys.