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CTO of Center for Internet Security Expounds on Transforming InfoSec

SecureWorld News

This is pretty powerful because now we all know how to secure systems and it's been validated by a third party that's a nonprofit and trusted. We have so much change happening and we can drive it to happen in a more positive way to reduce the resource needs for organizations and actually scale security for businesses of all sizes.".

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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. It’s just a question of choice.”

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Tech Moves: Qumulo co-founder returns; Allen Institute adds execs; and more

GeekWire

Protheroe previously worked at the UK-based Royal College of Art as director of development and alumni relations. Yang is a biotech vet who worked at Adaptive Biotechnologies, AstraZeneca, and Genentech before joining the Allen Institute, a Seattle-based nonprofit founded almost 20 years ago by Paul Allen, the late Microsoft co-founder.

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Tech Moves: Former Amazon VP Brad Porter joins Scale AI as CTO; UW names new Communication Leadership director; and more

GeekWire

Brad Porter, who was until recently the Amazon Robotics leader, will become Scale AI’s first CTO. “He will manage our entire technology stack, with combined ownership of product direction and engineering, to turbocharge our ambitious technology roadmap.” Scale AI Photo). Scale AI Photo).

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Asteroid hunters say they’ve found 27,500 new prospects in search for space rocks

GeekWire

The weeks-long database search was conducted by the Asteroid Institute , a program of the nonprofit B612 Foundation , in partnership with UW’s DiRAC Institute and Google Cloud. The two institutes developed a program called THOR , which stands for “Tracklet-less Heliocentric Orbit Recovery.” The project analyzed 5.4

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Oceanography professors transform a research tool into a startup that’s sucking CO2 from seawater

GeekWire

Two years ago the professors co-founded Banyu Carbon , a Seattle-based startup developing technology for extracting carbon dioxide from the ocean, which in turn lowers the levels in the atmosphere. Department of Energy , Activate Fellows , and Ocean Visions , a nonprofit advising carbon removal efforts. million from investors.

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After personal experience with cyberstalking, tech founder launches startup battling deepfake content

GeekWire

But most of the attention on stopping malicious deepfakes is focused on political candidates and issues , Hutchins notes, which while incredibly important, misses the majority of the technology’s victims. The other two co-founders are the chief technology officer and lead data architect, both of whom also hold 9-to-5 jobs.