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The real scandal behind billionaire Eric Schmidt paying for Biden’s science office

Vox

It also has a meager $5 million annual budget — which means it has to get creative to do its work. Enter Schmidt Futures, Schmidt’s private nonprofit that supports initiatives that use tech to address “hard-to-solve’’ scientific and societal problems. It could start with the government adequately funding them.

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How effective altruism went from a niche movement to a billion-dollar force

Vox

I had asked the people at the “let’s all give our money to buy the world’s poor malaria bed nets” conference to buy me a plane ticket ? Obviously the money should go to bed nets! In June 2022, the crypto market crashed , and Bankman-Fried’s net worth, as estimated by Bloomberg , crashed with it. Flash forward to 2021.

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The Hacker Mind: Hackers Wanted: Filling the Cybersecurity Skills Gap

ForAllSecure

I guess the answer is what I usually say to a security question: It depends. Clearing you don’t want someone off the street coming in as a Level 2 security analyst. Then again, you might want someone --anyone -- to come in as a Level 1 security analyst so your current Level 1s can advance. Sometimes it was only 20.