Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Thursday, August 26, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough today.

Big Tech offered some big cyber security commitments after that White House meetup.

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and another secretive startup that wants to create a battery revolution.

Here's what you missed today in the world of tech. Well, I guess I got bum information.

The White House meeting with the big tech platforms over cybersecurity actually happened yesterday,

and big promises were made.

Google said it will spend $10 billion over five years and train 100,000 IT and data workers.

Apple pledged supply chain security improvements.

Microsoft said it will quadruple cybersecurity spending to $20 billion over five years

and spend $150 million to help federal, state, and local governments improve

their security, quoting the Washington Post.

The reality is most of our critical infrastructure is owned and operated by the private sector and the federal

government can't meet this challenge alone President Biden said in his remarks before the summit,

you have the power, capacity and responsibility I believe to raise the bar on cybersecurity.

Ultimately we've got a lot of work to do."

These challenges are compounded Biden added by the shortage of cybersecurity professionals.

The White House estimates that roughly half a million shortage of cyber security professionals.

The White House estimates that roughly half a million cyber security jobs remain open

amid an onslaught of cyber attacks.

While an unusually public and ambitious gathering, the meeting was part of a broader

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