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Tiana Cline

Johannesburg

Freelance Writer at Freelance

Freelance biz-tech writer for @brainstormmagza, @forbesafrica, @stuffsa & more | #UX writer for hire | 🎮 | 🐈 | 📚

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  • Big tech’s big bet on cloud security

    1 week ago | itweb.co.za | Tiana Cline

    By Tiana Cline, ContributorJohannesburg, 19 Jun 2025Earlier this year, Google’s parent company Alphabet made its biggest acquisition to date. Its first bid to buy Wiz, a US-Israeli cloud security startup, for $23bn, in July 2024, was rejected. Alphabet closed the deal in March, paying $32bn. The mega-deal shows just how important cloud security has become.

  • Compliance, connected

    1 week ago | itweb.co.za | Tiana Cline

    Financial crime doesn’t happen in isolation. It thrives in the spaces between systems, in the misalignment between fraud detection, anti-money laundering (AML) and know your customer (KYC) protocols. While many financial institutions continue to treat these areas as separate disciplines, the criminals they’re trying to catch do not. “Fraudsters find the cracks between disconnected systems,” says Barrie Venter, Sybrin’s product lead for KYC, fraud risk management and identity verification.

  • Big tech’s big bet on cloud security

    3 weeks ago | brainstorm.itweb.co.za | Tiana Cline

    01 June 2025 Herain Oberoi, Microsoft Security Earlier this year, Google’s parent company Alphabet made its biggest acquisition to date. Its first bid to buy Wiz, a US-Israeli cloud security startup, for $23bn, in July 2024, was rejected. Alphabet closed the deal in March, paying $32bn. The mega-deal shows just how important cloud security has become.

  • Shall we play a game?

    3 weeks ago | brainstorm.itweb.co.za | Tiana Cline

    01 June 2025 When Michael Vorster was doing his Honour’s degree at Stellenbosch University, he unexpectedly came across Minecraft. He was looking for a game-based platform to help with teaching second languages and while the education edition of Minecraft wasn’t widely used, he thought it could be a useful tool. Teaching grade eight language classes at the time, he saw it as a platform his students already knew and were excited about.

  • Purr love

    3 weeks ago | brainstorm.itweb.co.za | Tiana Cline

    Purr love How did cats claw their way into our feeds and evolve into the internet’s most enduring algorithm? 01 June 2025 Who is your favourite cat on the internet? Have you seen that lady who is slowly turning her cat’s fur into yarn? What about the TikTok of those kittens obsessed with Bluey? Or the cat who loves to skateboard on YouTube? Actually…why are there so many, many cats on the internet?

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Tiana Cline @tianatweets
13 Jun 25

RT @AkiAnastasiou: Remember that home grown AI I told you about that speaks 11 South African languages and understands us? #KAIIA. Well I'v…

Tiana Cline
Tiana Cline @tianatweets
9 Jun 25

Just spotted something cool called KAIIA. Looks like a locally built ChatGPT-style AI, fluent in all 11 languages and seriously slick. No brand, no big launch... who made this? Where did it come from? 👀 https://t.co/OTItlPq1yn

Tiana Cline
Tiana Cline @tianatweets
9 Apr 25

RT @JurassicWorld: We see no possible way this could go wrong