The Verge

MARCH 8, 2022

Google’s Jigsaw unit is releasing the code for an open source anti-harassment tool called Harassment Manager. It’s debuting as source code for developers to build on, then being launched as a functional application for Thomson Reuters Foundation journalists in June. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 26, 2014

Bray has observed the increasing blurring of the lines differentiating the public sector, the private sector, academia, and nonprofits. To illustrate his point, Mr. Bray shared the story of an application for smartphones created by the FCC. — David A. Bray (@fcc_cio) July 30, 2014.

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GeekWire

APRIL 29, 2023

The c4 and mmc4 corpuses are both derived from data collected by Common Crawl, a nonprofit organization that crawls the web, then provides its archives and datasets to the public for free. In its initial application, mmc4 was used to provide training data for OpenFlamingo, the first public model trained on this corpus.

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Vox

MAY 20, 2020

Apple, specifically, rolled out a software update to iOS devices that some users could download immediately. Built by the nonprofit Mitre Corporation, Sara Alert is an open source project developed with the cooperation of several state public health authorities, which is similar in some ways to what Apple and Google are trying to do. “We

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