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Tech Moves: Xbox hires Seattle gaming vet Kim Swift; Frontdoor adds Amazon Fashion leader; more

GeekWire

Swift is a longtime Seattle-area gaming industry vet whose resume includes Valve Software (she helped lead development of Portal), Airtight Games, Amazon, EA, and most recently Google Stadia, where she was a game design director for the tech giant’s cloud gaming service. Google Stadia closed its first-party game studios in February.

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Rackspace’s CTO takes a broad view of sustainability

CIO Business Intelligence

Srini Koushik has been passionate about the environment for 35 years and now, as a board member of the nonprofit SustainableIT.org and CTO of cloud services provider Rackspace Technology, he wants to help enterprises achieve sustainability in the cloud. By choosing them, enterprises are almost adopting net zero by proxy,” Koushik says.

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Tech Moves: Amazon’s director of Alexa Trust; BECU adds CIO; Lockstep, Fabric exit stealth mode

GeekWire

Amazon hired Anne Toth as director of Alexa Trust, a team focused on the privacy, security, accessibility, ethics and biases of Amazon’s voice platform. Toth was previously VP of people and policy at Slack and head of privacy and policy for Google social products including Google+. Amazon Photo). million seed round.

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Why you should care about Facebook’s big push into the metaverse

Vox

It’s the metaverse — defined most simply as a virtual world where people can socialize, work, and play — and Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg believes it is the future of the internet and of his trillion-dollar company. Many critics and skeptics have mocked Zuckerberg’s plan to change Facebook from a social media company to a metaverse company.

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Tech Moves: Leafly announces new board ahead of SPAC merger; Amazon vets depart; and more

GeekWire

Blaise Judja-Sato , founder of Seattle-based global health nonprofit VillageReach. A company spokesperson confirmed Grosse’s departure and said the company would not be hiring a CMO in the foreseeable future. The Oregon company also added Symantec and Google vet Stephen Gillett to its board of directors in December.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Real World Criminals Online

ForAllSecure

Find out what Daniel looks for and how he does digital forensics using social media and other open source resources. While I produced this episode, a 21 year old Massachusetts National Guard airman is alleged to have photographed and distributed copies of classified US Military material on Discord, a social media site. You find clues.

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The Boogaloo movement has successfully hijacked social networks to spread

The Verge

Also of note is where Boogaloo adherents are organizing themselves: social networks, most notably Facebook. Riley writes (emphasis hers): Researchers at the global nonprofit group Avaaz found nearly two dozen Facebook pages affiliated with the “boogaloo” movement, a generally anti-government and anti-law enforcement ideology.

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