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Can we innovate our way out of the climate crisis? Venture capitalists sound off on saving the Earth

GeekWire

Rea is executive director of E8 , a Seattle-based investment network focused on climate tech. I’ve always believed that the rest of world would come around at some point because these problems have to be solved,” said David Kenney , executive director of VertueLab , a Portland-based nonprofit founded 14 years ago.

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Tech Moves: Expedia board director Skip Battle resigns; Madrona promotions; Vacasa’s new CFO

GeekWire

AskJeeves was acquired in 2005 by IAC, the internet media company run by Barry Diller, who is also chairman of Seattle-based Expedia Group. Its net loss for the first nine months of this year was $2.2 She succeeds co-founder David Brown, who will remain on the board of the global network for entrepreneurs. billion in 2019.

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Amazon’s strategy to squeeze marketplace sellers and maximize its own profits is evolving

Vox

The report , which comes from the nonprofit Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR), asserts that Amazon takes a larger and larger cut of sellers’ earnings through the various fees it levies on them. AWS netted $13.5 ILSR estimates seller fees netted $24 billion. billion in 2020, according to Amazon’s financial data.

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The man who got fired by his DAO

The Verge

The Ethereum network, on which many DAOs run, describes them as “a safe way to collaborate with internet strangers.” The project is still quite small, by the standards of the wider internet: ENS says about 300,000 people have registered names to date.). This is how the internet should have worked all along.”.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Industrial Control Systems

ForAllSecure

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. But also war over the internet. It's on a corporate network. Anyway, an air gap system is just a high latency network connection.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Real World Criminals Online

ForAllSecure

That, of course, was not all, but it is an example of how someone -- anyone on the internet -- can take a photo or blog post or Yelp review from social media, or some other seemingly random open source item and tie it back to a crime. Which then I could configure to get on the internet, you know. You got into a network.

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

ForAllSecure

So I started attending Black Hat, Def Con, and after many years wrote my own book on the insecurity of internet of things devices. Turns out, SANS Institute -- which stands for SysAdmin, Audit, Network, and Security -- has launched some programs to find out. I also went after a CISSP certification. It’s simple things like that.