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Bezos Academy, funded by Jeff Bezos’ $2B ‘Day One Fund,’ launches first free school in Seattle area

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The nonprofit, backed by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ $2 billion Day One Fund , will open a new school on Oct. George retired from Amazon in July 2017 after nearly 20 years at the tech giant, where he held multiple leadership positions spanning hardware to HR. 19 in Des Moines, Wash., just south of Amazon’s Seattle headquarters.

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Tech Moves: Convoy vet joins Xembly; Seattle climate firm hires Goldman Sachs exec; and more

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based hardware company MTI promoted Allen Auchenpaugh to CEO , from VP of global services. nonprofit Greater Washington Partnership, and president and CEO of the Atlanta Housing Authority. billion campus development plan and its effort to achieve net-zero emissions. Hillsboro, Ore.-based and Nashville.

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$5M Climate Impact Fund launches to support entrepreneurs tackling the climate crisis

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Portland-based nonprofit VertueLab launched its $5 million Climate Impact Fund on Wednesday to support early stage, clean tech entrepreneurs focused on addressing climate change causes and moving to a carbon-free economy. GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser). But the sector faces it’s own challenges.

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Rackspace’s CTO takes a broad view of sustainability

CIO Business Intelligence

Srini Koushik has been passionate about the environment for 35 years and now, as a board member of the nonprofit SustainableIT.org and CTO of cloud services provider Rackspace Technology, he wants to help enterprises achieve sustainability in the cloud. By choosing them, enterprises are almost adopting net zero by proxy,” Koushik says.

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I want to fly to Hawaii, but I don’t want to wreck the planet. With carbon offsets, can I do both?

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I don’t think this should be put on consumers to figure out,” said Noah Deich , president of Carbon180 , a carbon removal, policy-focused nonprofit. Businesses are investing in carbon offsets because they are the easiest way to respond to customer and employee demands to move toward net zero. ” Max Scher, Salesforce.

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The case for taking AI seriously as a threat to humanity

Vox

The AI realizes it can achieve more confidence in its calculation if it uses all the world’s computing hardware, and it realizes that releasing a biological superweapon to wipe out humanity would allow it free use of all the hardware. Disclosure: MIRI is a nonprofit and I donated to its work in 2017-2019.).

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Industrial Control Systems

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So it wasn't this story that we hear sometimes thrown around about Lightspeed net speed cyberattacks, you know it was human adversaries doing research on the environment, so the attack starts. We have questions in our CTF engine here that they answer but they use their physical hardware on wheels and also have some IoT stuff.

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