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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.

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

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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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Tech Moves: T-Mobile adds former U.S. intelligence director to board; Amazon execs depart; and more

GeekWire

. — Amazon Web Services’ VP of Solution Architecture and Training & Certification Rudy Valdez has departed, according to a report by The Information. A longtime veteran of Amazon’s cloud computing arm, Valdez joined the company as a senior manager of business development in 2005. Read the story. Seattle-based Snap!

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Top 10 barriers to strategic IT success

CIO Business Intelligence

Upskilling takes time, and contracted workers aren’t usually as close to the business as employees. The State of the Tech Workforce 2024 report from nonprofit CompTIA , forecasts tech employment growth of 3.1% Downing developed strategies to deal with this challenge so that it does not impede progress. 1 challenge listed.

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As mental health needs surge, this Seattle startup offers AI-powered analysis of therapy sessions

GeekWire

Over many years, the researchers developed measures for evaluating mental health sessions, and using thousands of hours of recordings of treatments, they trained their AI-powered system to perform the otherwise laborious, time consuming evaluation of the interactions. In 2017, the team officially launched Lyssn. Lyssn Image).

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking Aerospace

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Vamosi: Maybe you remember this: In 2014, researchers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek succeeded in hacking a Jeep Cherokee while a reporter was driving it on a freeway during rush hour in St Louis, Missouri. ” The event, which was captured on video and also reported in Wired magazine, sent a message to the automotive industry.

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NSO Group Placed on U.S. Blacklist

SecureWorld News

The infamous Israel-based NSO Group, known for its hacking spyware Pegasus, was placed on the United States Government's Entity List for engaging in malicious cyber activities, along with three other foreign companies, Candiru, Computer Security Initiative Consultancy PTE (COSEINC), and Positive Technologies.

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