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Net Neutrality, Government Surveillance, Data Centers – Things You are Afraid to Ask

Data Center Knowledge

Government surveillance programs and the FCC ruling on net neutrality are impacting data centers? government and. Ever wonder how the U.S. Join our panel of data center, telecommunications, and legal experts in a roundtable discussion about the changing nature of the relationship between the U.S.

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Why would anyone be against life-saving malaria bednets?

Vox

A young boy rolls up a mosquito net covering bedding at a refugee camp in 2023 in South Sudan. That mosquito nets are dangerous to people would be news to basically any public health professional who’s ever studied them. lives for every 1,000 children protected by nets. lives for every 1,000 children protected by nets.

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U.S. government scrutinizes Microsoft’s hiring practices as tech giant looks to boost diversity

GeekWire

Microsoft in June announced a sweeping racial justice plan, including an initiative to spend $150 million on diversity and inclusion programs, and double its number of Black and African American managers and senior employees by 2025 in the U.S. “We have every confidence that Microsoft’s diversity initiative complies fully with all U.S.

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Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy pledges $276M to match UK funding for climate innovations

GeekWire

A pleasure to sit down with @BillGates at the Global Investment Summit today, where we announced a new £400m partnership between the government and @Breakthrough to supercharge a green industrial revolution across the UK: [link] #UKinvestment #BuildBackBetter pic.twitter.com/9lREGD5UyP. — Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson) October 19, 2021.

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Orro: Delivering a sustainable future enabled by the cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

Greengarten believes that effort begins with building an Environmental, Social, and Governance program that addresses the unique risks faced by the IT services industry. For Orro, those include carbon emissions, obsolete equipment, data theft, gender diversity, disturbance to natural sites, and ethical sourcing.

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US government offers $10 million bounty for information on Colonial Pipeline hackers

The Verge

It seems deliberately ambiguous, allowing the State Department to cast as wide a net as possible. These bounties are offered under the Rewards for Justice (RfJ) program , which was originally established in 1984 to target international terrorism. Fighting ransomware with bounties.

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Measuring CSPs' advances in sustainability

TM Forum

. “This focus on maximizing the efficiency of our networks will also contribute to reducing our carbon emissions and help us meet our sustainability targets of becoming ‘net zero’ by 2040,” said Michaël Trabbia, Chief Technology and Innovation Officer for the Orange Group. billion euro refinancing program.

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