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Google is close to making its biggest acquisition ever | CNN Business (www.cnn.com)
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Google owner Alphabet is in advanced discussions to buy fast-growing cybersecurity startup Wiz for roughly $23 billion, a person familiar with the matter confirmed to CNN.

A takeover of Wiz, which makes cybersecurity software for cloud computing, would represent a major bet by Google on cybersecurity, marking the tech giant’s biggest-ever acquisition.

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[–] 1984@lemmy.today 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I think it's more likely that Google knows that they will be under attack by a lot of hackers once they show their true colors in the future. I think they will represent the tech that will control all of us, using AI, robotics, implants and so on.

With close ties to national security and no morals, they will be first to implement ID controls on the web as well.

[–] Grangle1@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago

Even the privacy/security people I follow say that despite Big Tech (MS, Google, Apple, etc) being privacy nightmares, they are pretty solid on their security, or at least no less secure than the alternatives. But when you combine efforts to maintain that security with those privacy nightmares, you get what you mention.