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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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CIT Announces Commonwealth Research Commercialization Fund (CRCF) FY2014 Fall Solicitation Awards and Upcoming Solicitation

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Awards target academic research and commercialization activities in the Commonwealth . million in funding for 14 awards to Virginia’s colleges, universities, and research organizations as part of the FY2014 fall solicitation of the Commonwealth Research Commercialization Fund (CRCF). Matching Funds Program .

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Why you need a bug bounty program

Network World

Every business needs to have a process in place for handling security vulnerability reports , but some organizations take a much more proactive approach to dealing with security researchers. An increasing number of hardware and software vendors have formal bug bounty programs.

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Amazon pours up to $4B into AI startup Anthropic, escalating rivalry with Microsoft and Google

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Amazon “will become Anthropic’s primary cloud provider for mission critical workloads, including safety research and future foundation model development,” the Seattle company said in a post announcing the deal. The companies said Anthropic will build, train, and deploy its AI models on AWS Trainium and Inferentia chips. .

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Gates Foundation gives millions to help persuade ultra-wealthy donors to give more of their billions

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In October 2020, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation gave $5 million to the TED Foundation’s Audacious Project to “research and overcome barriers to large scale giving by ultra-high net worth donors.”. of their assets to charity , according to research commissioned by the Gates Foundation.

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New Whitepaper: Breaking the Attack Kill Chain

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This is part of Cognitio''s Sponsored Post Program. The newest white paper added to the CTOvision Research Library highlights cybercrime and how to detect and prevent cyber attacks with the Enterprise Security Platform. Read the whitepaper here in the CTOvision Research Library. By Katie Kennedy. Related articles.

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Fed Tech Roundup December 4

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Fight over net neutrality rules returns to appeals court - Madison.com. Naval Research Lab hit by zero-day exploit - FCW.com. 3 Key Questions about the Upcoming Net Neutrality Court Fight - Nextgov. 3 Key Questions about the Upcoming Net Neutrality Court Fight - Nextgov. Lockheed Martin Corp.

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