CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Whether it’s workplace issues, social justice issues, or talking about engineering, and help each other along with our careers,” says Greenlee. Today BIT includes a for-profit and a nonprofit side, each of which seeks to break down barriers, create opportunity, and diversify the tech talent pipeline.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

One semester, Sandra Aistars, director of the Arts and Entertainment Advocacy Clinic at George Mason University, had law students do takedown notices for artists and nonprofits and tracked their interactions. Even people who should be experts in copyright matters can struggle to contend with takedown policies. And that’s just Facebook.

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GeekWire

MAY 11, 2021

Beyond making pancakes together with Bezos back in 2018, Bezos was also an investor in Wilson’s social networking startup TraceMe. The company was eventually acquired by Nike.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 8, 2023

We sold the company to Palo Alto Networks, I think less than four years from its founding date, which is a very interesting growth story, obviously. So I also have recently launched a nonprofit called the Forte group. So clarity is one of those companies and they are IMS ting them in 2018. So what do you do to secure them?

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The Verge

JUNE 17, 2020

The nonprofit, which provides rapid SMS-based access to counselors for people in crisis, had been trying to make inroads in black communities for years. But Jo, who worked at the company as a social media coordinator, found that her white boss did not agree. It’s very sad, but I’m struggling to see relevance,” she said. “I

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Vox

JUNE 24, 2020

For most people, Instagram has long been the social media platform where they escape from the real world — and politics — to share a curated highlight reel of their lives. Of course, political activism on social media platforms, including Instagram, isn’t new. Zac Freeland/Vox. But recently, that’s changed.

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GeekWire

JULY 24, 2020

Itucas continues to lead product and operations at the startup, which participated in the 2018 Techstars Seattle accelerator program. Department of Energy’s broad network of government-funded research institutions across the country, PNNL’s research on national security and energy is worthy of recognition. Part of the U.S.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 6, 2022

Blaise Judja-Sato , founder of Seattle-based global health nonprofit VillageReach. Tagboard originally launched as a social media aggregator. Clients include the NFL Network, Telemundo, and Major League Baseball, which signed a four-year deal starting in 2021. Vigeo Alliance President and CEO Cassandra Chandler.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 14, 2022

CBS: A computer security researcher was kept off a plane for suggesting on social media that he could hack into the planes control system. Vamosi: in 2018, the Federal Communications Commission the FCC had an auction to sell off parts of the electromagnetic spectrum to make way for the new 5G wireless that was still being created.

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Vox

DECEMBER 28, 2023

When Bryce, a 29-year-old nonprofit director in Kansas City, started using it last summer, “It was the one that everyone was talking about.” It was a swipe app with a simple sign-up process, which connected users via their Facebook profiles, creating a “friends of friends” dating network.

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Vox

JANUARY 24, 2023

Bezos’s philanthropic track record Before 2018, Bezos didn’t have much of a philanthropic résumé. It was a source of growing criticism from the press and nonprofit experts as his net worth climbed, topping $100 billion by the end of 2017. Applying for a grant can often be a long, burdensome process for nonprofits.

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The Verge

JULY 30, 2020

These regularities are unknown to humans, but they’re stored as billions of weighted connections between the different nodes in GPT-3’s neural network. If you input the word “fire” into GPT-3, the program knows, based on the weights in its network, that the words “truck” and “alarm” are much more likely to follow than “lucid” or “elvish.”

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Then why haven't we seen more talks on the social science aspect of security, Grooten: My personal motivation for spinning to Black Hat in particular, was that, I think that if you are a technology expert, a security expert, and you're going to do some work on stock because someone contacts you about something they think they have on their phone.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 26, 2022

What he touched off instead was a rampant epidemic last November that infected a national defense network of computers among others. A widely used social news and entertainment website built around user submitted content. However, many years later was 2018. And, you know, I had the Twitter account ID set up in 2018.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Being able to watch other people play the game has demystified it, so when socially-quarantined people found themselves looking for things they could do via Zoom, D&D was right there to take the case. Toward the end of 2020, it looked like the American video game retail chain GameStop was on its last legs.

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The Verge

JANUARY 25, 2021

Among the biggest beneficiaries has been Signal, the encrypted messaging app whose development is funded by a nonprofit organization. We’re organized as a nonprofit because we feel like the way the internet currently works is insane,” CEO Moxie Marlinspike told me. That’s not a strategy — that’s just hoping things don’t go bad.”.

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The Verge

MARCH 4, 2021

It is the final work of a coalition of some of the most respected names in platform analysis in academia and the nonprofit world: the Stanford Internet Observatory, the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public, Graphika, and the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab. no widespread fraud.

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Vox

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Then-Google AI research scientist Timnit Gebru speaks at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2018 in San Francisco. Zhang has been invited to speak before the UK Parliament, lawmakers in India, and other governmental bodies about regulation to limit the harm of social media platforms like Facebook. A new network of tech whistleblowers.

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GeekWire

MAY 10, 2024

Seattle nonprofit Housing Connector pairs landlords with renters who have imperfect rental backgrounds, helping more than 6,200 people find housing in the past five years. We don’t have a marketing budget, we’re a nonprofit, we need to get the word out, both about the risks of deep fakes and about our free tool.

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 11, 2022

The following list provides a brief profile of 178 fabulous female futurists [up from 78 in the original list of September 2015, 143 in the update of November 2015, 158 in January 2018, 167 in February 2017, and 178 in the 2018 revision]. Reyhan Huseynova. Location: Azerbaijan. Zhouying Jin. Location: Beijing, China. Ayesha Khanna.

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The Verge

MAY 13, 2020

In November 2018 I received a message that changed my life. In a preliminary settlement filed on Friday in San Mateo Superior Court, the social network agreed to pay damages to American moderators and provide more counseling to them while they work. Photo by Michele Doying / The Verge.

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The Verge

JULY 1, 2020

The big social platforms, who were once loath to intervene in matters of political speech, are getting much more comfortable with the idea. Spencer was removed in 2018; Duke was removed last year. Facebook bans a violent Boogaloo network. for 5G networks. Photo by FRED TANNEAU/AFP via Getty Images. India bans TikTok.

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The Verge

JUNE 10, 2020

The latter app also drove growth in kids’ social app use by 100% in 2019 and 200% in 2020, the report found. So basically, before TikTok, kids used social apps a certain amount. If you are working on a social app, this is a good sign that you are doing something right. Since ByteDance bought Musical.ly

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Vox

JUNE 12, 2023

Roller, who has lived in Tulsa since the early ’70s, is a mentor with the local chapter of the business nonprofit SCORE , which offers businesses free assistance with things like financial planning and fundraising. Tulsa Remote started offering remote workers the headline-grabbing $10,000 sum to move to the city back in 2018.

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2021

And while I ultimately come to some different conclusions than the authors do, the book is worth reading for everyone interested in social networks, trust and safety, and cybersecurity. Facebook has since learned that lesson; it has never been harder to set up a network of fake accounts on the network and keep it operational.

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The Verge

JANUARY 27, 2021

A group of 75 activist groups and nonprofits have urged against sweeping changes to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, warning that it could silence marginalized communities while making online moderation harder. Amazon, for instance, invoked it to defend suspending the social network Parler over violent threats.

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The Verge

AUGUST 20, 2020

The “Tide Pods challenge” surged on social networks in 2018, and ultimately more than 10,000 children were reported to have been exposed to whatever extremely inedible substance is actually inside Tide Pods. Ben Collins and Brandy Zadrozny wrote a definitive piece on QAnon’s origins as a grift for NBC News in 2018.)

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Social networks contain multitudes. Facebook has sometimes faced doubts over why a social network would invest so much time and money into a hardware project with no uncertain payoff. It doesn’t fit the kind of social use cases that we primarily care about. Photo by Nick Statt / The Verge.

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The Verge

MAY 28, 2020

Here are Jeff Horwitz and Deepa Seetharaman : “Our algorithms exploit the human brain’s attraction to divisiveness,” read a slide from a 2018 presentation. “If The C-suite read closely a working paper that my colleague Ezra Klein wrote about earlier this year that casts doubt on social networks’ contribution to the problem.

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