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GeekWire Awards 2021: Geeks Give Back celebrates groups that better our community

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That includes kids who are Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC); children who struggle socially due to autism, ADHD or other conditions; and women eager to break into technology or entrepreneurial roles. Founded in 2016, the diverse GOKiC staff has provided instruction for more than 250 kids across 12 programs. Game to Grow.

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From cybersecurity to social justice, Rubica CEO Frances Dewing is an agent of unexpected change

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I’ve always had a social justice kind of pull.”. Dewing, who holds a law degree from the University of Washington, worked for a nonprofit legal aid program early in her career and was involved with immigrant advocacy and street youth while in law school. Your preferred social network? I’m not big on social media.

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Meet Seattle’s ‘Climate Papa’ – an entrepreneur turned investor, podcaster, climate action apostle

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Eidelson’s focus isn’t on creating a social networking group, but he was glad for the chance to meet in person with like-minded people. Stephanie Hannon , fund advisor whose experience includes chief technology officer for Hilary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign. The Climate Papa logo.

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Sam Altman’s ouster puts a new twist into OpenAI’s complicated relationship with Microsoft

GeekWire

Reports overnight indicate that a conflict between Altman’s ambitions for OpenAI and the mission of the nonprofit were at the core of the board’s decision to oust him as CEO and remove OpenAI co-founder and President Greg Brockman as chairman. At the event, on Nov. The developer day was an issue.

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Internet shutdowns by governments have ‘proliferated at a truly alarming pace’

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Nearly 850 intentional shutdowns have been recorded over the past 10 years by nonprofit Access Now’s Shutdown Tracker Optimization Project (STOP), and although the group acknowledges that data on incidents before 2016 is “patchy,” some 768 of these shutdowns took place in the last five years.

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WhatsApp clarifies it’s not giving all your data to Facebook after surge in Signal and Telegram users

The Verge

But a wave of misinformation on social media, not helped by Facebook’s abysmal track record on privacy and its reputation for obfuscating changes to its various terms of service agreements, has resulted in a full-blown WhatsApp backlash that has users fleeing to competitors like Signal and Telegram.

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IT leaders turn to HBCUs for future IT talent

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Meanwhile, the 2022 State of Tech Diversity: The Black Tech Ecosystem report from the NAACP and Kapor Center, a nonprofit addressing racial inequities in STEM education and the tech industry, found that the proportion of Black students receiving bachelor’s degrees in computer science decreased between 2016 and 2020, going from 9% to 8%.