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Bezos’ Day 1 Families Fund awards $96M in grants to 32 organizations helping homeless families

GeekWire

The post included a video of Bezos’ girlfriend Lauren Sanchez talking with some of the funding recipients about the importance of the grants. While the homelessness-related fund has publicly issued four rounds of grants, little has been said about the schools program.

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Seattle startup founders, investors react to new state capital gains tax that targets stocks

GeekWire

” The estimated $500 million in yearly revenue the tax is expected to generate is earmarked to be funneled into early-childhood education programs and school construction. The video below, published by Invest in Washington Now, a nonprofit that supported the tax, shows how much a person would owe based on the new tax.

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The case for taking AI seriously as a threat to humanity

Vox

To do computer vision — allowing a computer to identify things in pictures and video — researchers wrote algorithms for detecting edges. To play chess, they programmed in heuristics about chess. Releasing a program that writes convincing fake reviews or fake news might make those widespread, making it harder for the truth to get out.

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

ForAllSecure

In this episode, Sonny Sandelius , Assistant Director of the SANS workforce programs, talks about programs that recruit people from outside computer sciences, encouraging those from diverse backgrounds who share the curiosity and the basic aptitude necessary to become hired cybersecurity professionals in as little as six months.

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The next generation of startups is remote

The Verge

Then a couple days later, two startup founders who had been a part of Y Combinator tweeted that they had been kicked out of the program for criticizing it. We have a growth program for companies that are way post-product market fit. The early program? How do we make the early program better? And I’m doing it here again.

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Gen Z does not dream of labor

Vox

While it’s certainly easy to group workers by age, more emphasis should be placed on when people enter the workforce, the coinciding state of the economy, and the various safety net programs in place, said Sarah Damaske, an associate professor of sociology and labor and employment relations at Penn State University.

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List of the world’s top female futurists (Update #5)

Trends in the Living Networks

With a PhD in Planning and Innovation Studies, and a Master’s degree in Architecture, Urban Design and Urban Planning, Karuri-Sebina has a sound knowledge base for her work as Executive Manager of programs at the South African Cities Network. She has a solid understanding of technology and its ability to deliver business outcomes.

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