Royal Hansen
@royalhansen
Vice President, Engineering, Google - Privacy, Safety, Security: Posts on InfoSec, Privacy, Data, AI, Counter Abuse and random stuff from life in CA; Tweets=own
"Having established relationships and strong partnerships within any community make crisis response situations easier, but when people come together in an exercise, it fosters future solutions," said Sheri Lewis, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory cloud.google.com/transform/tabl…
As Google Public Sector's Karen Dahut points out here, America’s government faces dynamic global changes. To stay ahead, we need to reassess outdated procurement processes and ensure government agencies have access to the most cutting-edge capabilities. foxnews.com/opinion/china-…
For the next few weeks I’ll share stories from my photo project about #MECFS Before Hillary became ill she was an entrepreneur, running companies, sponsoring motor racing, making music and living a full life. Updates on exhibition & book: tinyurl.com/58khuv8z #MEAwareness
Droopy eye after a stellate ganglion block. Next item on the #LongCovid list.

"Recognizing the significant accomplishments of this year’s student-participants, we’re now excited to share the news of @Google Gemini's breakthrough performance." deepmind.google/discover/blog/…
See what @nytimes said on Google's Big Sleep AI agent news, what the adversary is really doing with AI per @JumpforJoyce, and more on AI use today: nytimes.com/2025/07/21/bri…
We've been working hard for several years now to build options and flexibility into @googlecloud making it easy and fast for countries and companies to get the sovereignty requirements they need cloud.google.com/blog/topics/cu…
Colab Pro is now available for free for verified US students and faculty for one year.
Big news for data science in higher ed! 🚀Colab now offers 1-year Pro subscriptions free of charge for verified US students/faculty, interactive Slideshow Mode for lectures, & an AI toggle per notebook. Enhance teaching & learning in the upcoming academic year! Read all about it…
I've been so impressed with @MichaelPelusoMD and the team at @UCSF in moving us towards a more systematic approach to #longcovid and ME/CFS healthrising.org/blog/2025/07/1…
I'd love to see something like the Human Genome Project for the major Omics including the mechanisms through which they interoperate: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Gen…
"AlphaGenome’s ability to simultaneously score variant effects across all modalities accurately recapitulates the mechanisms ... To facilitate broader use, we provide tools for making genome track and variant effect predictions from sequence." biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
"Overstep allows the attackers to selectively remove log entries, a technique that is hindering forensic investigation." arstechnica.com/security/2025/…
"Developed by @GoogleDeepMind & @Google P0, Big Sleep can help security researchers find 0-day sw security vulnerabilities. Since it was introduced last year, it has continued to discover multiple flaws in widely-used software, exceeding our expectations" cloud.google.com/blog/products/…
Great work by the CoSAI team in standardizing and building alignment on Agent security principles. Incredibly important as we create a safe and useful Agent ecosystem: coalitionforsecureai.org/announcing-the…
We need to make this level of testing cheap and ubiquitous: tlabdx.com
So much to learn and model in the immune and metabolic systems: "However, which mitochondrial ETC functions are necessary for each dynamic state of CD8+ T cell responses is unknown." nature.com/articles/s4159…
"The good news is there are some frequent shared-model mistakes and pitfalls to watch out for, and avoiding them can help transform shared confusion into shared opportunity." cloud.google.com/transform/secu…
Data sovereignty is a hot topic in certain markets. Companies like Deutsche Telekom wanted "cloud-native processing of sensitive data, without compromise." That is possible with @googlecloud. Cool story ... cloud.google.com/blog/topics/cu…
"Chinese hackers are hitting a wider range of targets and battling harder to stay inside once detected" @josephmenn washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
I wish I'd grown up playing cricket in India!
Does anybody have any words to say about these 😎😎😎💫💫✨✨