Alphabet vicina all'accordo da 23 miliardi di dollari per la startup di sicurezza informatica Wiz: le autorità antitrust di tutto il mondo sono in fermento

Mancherebbe ancora qualche settimana alla conclusione delle trattative di #Google per l'acquisizione di #Wiz, mentre altre persone informate sulla transazione hanno affermato che c'è ancora la possibilità che l'accordo fallisca, con una serie di dettagli che devono ancora essere affrontati nei colloqui

@informatica

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/07/report-alphabet-close-23-billion-deal-for-cybersecurity-startup-wiz/

Report: Alphabet close to $23 billion deal for cybersecurity startup Wiz

Deal of this size would draw scrutiny from antitrust regulators around the world.

^{Ars Technica}

La mia degooglizzazione: parte 2
#google #degoogle
Come promesso qualche giorno fa eccoci alla seconda parte del mio percorso, attualmente ancora in corso, che mi sta portando alla degooglizzazione.

https://www.marcosbox.com/2024/07/14/la-mia-degooglizzazione-parte-2/

Marco's Box - La mia degooglizzazione: parte 2

In questa seconda parte del racconto sulla mia degooglizzazione vi parlo dei servizi che sto attualmente utilizzando.

^{Marco's Box}

This statement by ex-#Google tech workers denouncing #Google's role in the #Israel's #genocide in #Gaza is a MUST read:

With his book "When #Google Met #WikiLeaks" (2015), Julian #Assange was so ahead of the curve:

I created a Threads account to see how it works (spolier: badly).

Searching for "flaviotothemoon@poliverso.org" inside #Threads ONLY finds unrelated posts (sponsored?).

Searching for "flaviotothemoon@poliverso.org" with an anonymous window on #DuckDuckGo or Google yelds the correct result as the FIRST one:

https://poliverso.org/profile/flaviotothemoon

#Meta 0 #SearchEngines 1

I can't stop thinking the walls around Facebook/Instagram/X are there to protect against #Google

#mozilla is just the geek-friendly PR dept of #Google.

I won't give a dime, till they take Google dollars (or run their services over #AWS).

The fastest non-Google controlled web rendering engine Servo is trying to compete with only $1.6k funding a month:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Servo-Engine-May-2024

Yes, they did have an NLNet grant, but that ran out.

If we want an alternative to Blink/Chrome, we need to fund it. This is a project where even a tiny regular amount could yield oversize returns:

https://servo.org/

#Servo #Rust #Blink #Google #Chrome

Servo, the embeddable, independent, memory-safe, modular, parallel web rendering engine

Servo is a web rendering engine written in Rust, with WebGL and WebGPU support, and adaptable to desktop, mobile, and embedded applications.

^Servo

#Google ’s emissions climb nearly 50% in five years due to AI energy demand
Tech giant’s goal of reducing climate footprint at risk as it grows increasingly reliant on energy-hungry data centres

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jul/02/google-ai-emissions

Google’s emissions climb nearly 50% in five years due to AI energy demand

^{Dan Milmo (The Guardian)}

Did you know that #XScreenSaver (yes, the collection of screensavers for X11) is available on Android?

And that #Google requires it to have a privacy policy in order to be available in the Play Store?

And that the maintainer chose to crowd-source a privacy policy where every item starts with "Unlike Google"?

It's become a great list of all the privacy violations Google did and still does. And I thought that it's gonna be long, but it's even longer than I imagined.

https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/google.html