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Google Open Source blogOct 15, 2026

This Week in Open Source for October 15, 2026

Explore This Week in Open Source: MCP & A2A in the terminal, EmbeddingGemma 2 local multimodal search, AT Protocol Web Tiles, and 35 years of Linux.

Google Open Source blogOct 8, 2026

How much does it cost to use open source software?

How much effort does it take to maintain open source packages internally? Explore Google's empirical study on OSS update complexity and hidden costs.

Developer ToolsOpen Source

Google Open Source blogOct 6, 2026

Adopting Pyrefly as the Python type checker at Google

Learn why Google adopted Meta's open source Pyrefly type checker, reducing Python incremental rebuild latencies by up to 98% in our monorepo.

Developer ToolsMeta

Google Open Source blogOct 2, 2026

This Week in Open Source for October 2, 2026

Explore Gemma 4 12B inference math, local RAG with LiteRT, Google's EnvHarness, Mozilla & Mila's open AI stack, and October OSS events.

Google Open Source blogOct 1, 2026

Standardizing fine-grained access control in Apache Iceberg's REST catalog

How the new read-restrictions specification in Apache Iceberg's REST catalog standardizes engine-neutral row filtering and column masking

Apache IcebergData Governance

Google Open Source blogSep 30, 2026

New public datasets available in Google Cloud Lakehouse

Explore new Apache Iceberg public datasets from Wikipedia and GitHub in Google Cloud Lakehouse using PyIceberg and serverless Spark.

Apache IcebergBigLake

Google Open Source blogSep 24, 2026

This Week in Open Source for September 24, 2026

This Week in Open Source #17: $1B+ OSS spend & maintainer royalties, $8.8T OSS value, LF Energy 2-5x grid ROI, AI security post-mortems, and NASA/IBM lunar AI.

Google Open Source blogSep 23, 2026

Google Cloud: Investing in the future of PostgreSQL — 2026 highlights

Google Cloud's 2026 PostgreSQL contributions: logical replication conflict logging, scan optimizations, and extension hardening.

AlloyDBCloud SQL

Google Open Source blogSep 17, 2026

Reconnecting with the heart of open source: Highlights from our 2026 GSoC India tour

Highlights from the 2026 Google Summer of Code (GSoC) India tour and inaugural Alumni CAMP across Bengaluru and Delhi.

CommunityEvents

Google Open Source blogSep 3, 2026

How much should you trust your OSS data?

Evaluating the reliability of open source vulnerability and health metrics across security scanners and data sources.

open data setsOpen Source

Google Open Source blogAug 18, 2026

Securing the agentic era: Introducing formal verification for CEL

Introducing formal verification for Common Expression Language (CEL) to secure policy evaluation in AI agent workflows.

Google Open Source blogAug 11, 2026

Google joins the OpenROAD Initiative as principal member to accelerate open source silicon innovation

Google joins the OpenROAD Initiative as a principal member to advance open source silicon and EDA toolchain innovation.