Have you read Gibson's "Sprawl" and "Bridge" trilogies? I read them > ten years ago and haven't read any sci-fi since, these books kinda put a subconscious "it does not get better, better diversify into other genres" attitude into my brain and personally I'm OK with that. Was reading a lot of sci-fi before that.
So many CVEs are due to their bug bounty program, hackers are incentivized to sell vulnerabilities to Google rather than exploiting them. CVEs are publicly disclosed after they are fixed, of course.