GeekWire

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The private sector is stepping up as a major player in combating the climate crisis, joining governments and nonprofits. Jay Inslee also traveled to Glasgow, leading a coalition of 68 state, regional and city governments that created their own carbon-cutting pledges. Gates himself spoke at a session focused on the issue.

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Vox

MARCH 27, 2021

The saga is another flashpoint in the debate over the proper role of billionaire philanthropists — and their affiliated nonprofits — in society. Almost all nonprofit newsrooms are traditionally structured as 501(c)3 groups rather than as “dark money” political groups, as 501(c)4 organizations are sometimes called.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 20, 2022

One former seattlepi.com staffer, who recently left her role as a web producer for a job in nonprofit communications, expressed skepticism about Hearst’s long-term commitment, based on her experience. ” Axios Local has launched newsletters in 14 markets and is expanding to cities including Seattle in 2022.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

MARCH 4, 2020

CIOs need to find a way to solve the shortage of skilled security workers Image Credit: Merrill College of Journalism Press Releases. The program would place workers at nonprofit firms and with other organizations that traditionally could not afford to have them. Their salaries and training would all be paid for by the government.

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Vox

JUNE 10, 2020

Still, Mutale Nkonde, a research fellow at Harvard and Stanford who leads the nonprofit AI for the People, told the AP that “the symbolic nature of this is important.”. Then, on Tuesday, the Boston City Council held a hearing about an ordinance to ban facial recognition by the government. Support Vox’s explanatory journalism.

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GeekWire

MARCH 9, 2021

Yet in December, the federal government announced plans to award hundreds of millions of dollars to companies Elliott is afraid won’t meet the state’s standards. ” Crosscut is a service of Cascade Public Media, a nonprofit, public media organization. Russ Elliott, director of the Washington State Broadband Office.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

But given the tremendous costs and urgent need around connectivity, many government leaders, nonprofits and private ventures are throwing what they can at the problem to make improvements as quickly as possible. Microsoft and Seahawks help lead new initiative connecting Washington students to remote learning.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 17, 2020

Facebook designed changes to its news feed algorithm in 2017 to reduce the visibility of left-leaning news sites like Mother Jones on its platform, the Wall Street Journal reported , and CEO Mark Zuckerberg had personally approved the plans. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Romney later said his comments were “completely wrong.”.

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The Verge

JULY 18, 2021

The phones were on a leaked list of numbers discovered by Paris journalism nonprofit Hidden Stories and human rights group Amnesty International, according to the Post. In 2019, WhatsApp sued NSO , claiming Pegasus was used to hack users of WhatsApp’s encrypted chat service.

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GeekWire

APRIL 18, 2024

The nonprofit Clean and Prosperous Washington compared the prices of gas in Washington and Oregon to try to tease out the impact of the carbon policy. But initiative backers explain that if voters reject the approach, “it isn’t right” that the government can return to the policy, Balch said.

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Vox

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Nick Bostrom is a professor at the University of Oxford, the director of the Future of Humanity Institute, and the director of the Governance of Artificial Intelligence Program. There will be governments — Russia’s Vladimir Putin has expressed an interest in AI , and China has made big investments.

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Vox

MAY 22, 2023

When it came to applying for work, there was huge growth in the number of applications to jobs in government, law, and politics (84 percent); energy (53 percent); and pretty much every industry that isn’t tech, although that grew too (8 percent). Meanwhile, not a single tech company made the top 10. It was kind of scary as a kid.”

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The Verge

JUNE 11, 2020

People capture footage and then anonymize it through Photoshop, but in the meantime the government might have confiscated their camera, and with that the compromising material.” One journalist who offered Playground advice on building the app is Paul Cheung, a director at the journalism nonprofit the Knight Foundation.

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The Verge

JULY 14, 2021

The Wall Street Journal first reported on Facebook’s petition , which was filed with the FTC today. In the petition, Facebook attorneys write that “Chair Khan has consistently and very publicly concluded that Facebook is guilty of violating the antitrust laws.

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Vox

APRIL 21, 2020

Plotted out over the past few weeks, the Rt metrics of every state in the country can show the spread of the novel coronavirus being affected by government actions like stay-at-home measures. “I Support Vox’s explanatory journalism. Bettencourt and Ruy M. He added, “Think of it as a collaboration between me and Mike.”.

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GeekWire

MAY 15, 2020

In early April the duo launched $1k Project to provide direct assistance that felt more personal than donating to a fund or nonprofit. The $1k Project is particularly interested in helping people who are not already plugged into government, social safety-net programs.

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Vox

JUNE 3, 2023

Reporters asked government officials all the way up to the White House press office what was going on. TikTok says it worked with outside partners like the industry nonprofit Partnership on AI for feedback on adhering to a framework for responsible AI practices. The photo was quickly determined to be a hoax, likely generated by AI.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

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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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

In a time fraught with political discord and cynicism, Poppy MacDonald is a champion for the shining ideal of democracy — namely a government that’s striving to improve the lives of its citizens. She also led the National Journal and was a lead partner with the analytics and polling company Gallup.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 11, 2024

In their words: “Professionally, there are many parallels and learnings from my prior roles to the City Council functions both in terms of informing and communicating to constituencies decisions and their rationales and setting the clear goals and directives for staff to ensure effective governance.”

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The federal government can collect and collate this data, and then it can provide work for anyone who has a plan to address it. The federal government can subsidize some and hire others to do this work, covering any gap left by the market. He is also the founder of the nonprofit Humanity Forward.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 26, 2022

He was indicted on charges of stealing millions of academic articles and journals from a digital archive at MIT. Instead, the US government did, saying quote Stealing is stealing whether you use a computer command or crowbar and whether you take documents data or dollars. But MIT didn’t press charges.

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Vox

MAY 20, 2020

This big public unveiling raises a couple very important questions: Will any government agencies actually build those apps? Support Vox’s explanatory journalism. Vox’s work is reaching more people than ever, but our distinctive brand of explanatory journalism takes resources — particularly during a pandemic and an economic downturn.

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Vox

MAY 1, 2023

That month, bold-faced names canceled their attendance at Davos in the Desert , a giant event in Riyadh hosted by the Future Investment Initiative Institute, a nonprofit linked to the Public Investment Fund, the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia and the sponsor of the Miami conference. Even Wag, the dog-walking app, got $300 million.

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Vox

JUNE 25, 2020

That hasn’t stopped Natural News from crying censorship and urging readers to appeal to Facebook and even the federal government over the bans. Support Vox’s explanatory journalism. From a policy perspective, Facebook is fighting spam. Open Sourced is made possible by Omidyar Network.

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The Verge

MAY 20, 2020

Webby Award for Charitable Organization / Nonprofit : Our Stories Alzheimer’s Awareness Campaign by The Ad Council. Webby People’s Voice Award for Charitable Organization / Nonprofit : Equal Justice Initiative by Madeo. Webby Award for Government & Civil Innovation : USAFacts.

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Vox

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen created an international media blitz earlier this year when she leaked tens of thousands of damning internal company documents to the Wall Street Journal and US government. Other activists are focusing on relief funds for employees who risk their financial stability to speak out.

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2020

And in Las Vegas, three men were indicted “for allegedly conspiring to destroy government and private property during protests in that city on May 30, and for allegedly possessing Molotov cocktails,” the Wall Street Journal reported. Governing. ?

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The Verge

JULY 9, 2020

This dynamic was captured beautifully on Wednesday in a story in the Wall Street Journal that charts the company’s ever-evolving content policies, which have grudgingly adjusted over the past several months to welcome such previously verboten content as political protests, MAGA hats, “more than two inches of cleavage,” and. Governing. ?

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 11, 2022

In an interview with Foresight for Development , Njonjo discusses the many benefits that foresight methodologies can bring to African governments, including “proactive policies and legislation”, “better solutions to complex problems”, “reducing the number of catastrophes”, and “better use of resources”. Professor Ivana Milojevi?

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The Verge

JUNE 3, 2020

Governing. ? The nonprofit Center for Democracy and Technology filed a lawsuit against Donald Trump. Mike Cherney / The Wall Street Journal ). Reported cases in Illinois: 121,666. Total test results (positive and negative) in Illinois: 934,704. Data from The New York Times. Test data from The COVID Tracking Project.

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The Verge

JULY 1, 2020

It was just a few days ago that I wrote this column about how the Boogaloo movement — a loose-knit collection of anti-government types, some of whom are agitating for a second civil war — had hijacked social networks to spread. Governing. ? Facebook bans a violent Boogaloo network. Zoe Schiffer. Manish Singh / TechCrunch ).

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Vox

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Journalism, as an industry, is struggling badly. Before the collapse of FTX, Bankman-Fried put millions into scientists, companies, and nonprofits working on pandemic and bioterror prevention and risks from artificial intelligence. But the honest answer to whether I regret taking the money knowing what we knew then , the answer is no.

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

It’s how we access government services, look for work, find our homes, and stay connected in our day-to-day lives. The government has given private companies billions of dollars to try to fund broadband projects, especially on the rural front, but not all of that money has been well spent. For many workers, it means doing their jobs.

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2021

Stamos arrived at Facebook in September 2015 following a high-profile stint at Yahoo, where he discovered a vulnerability in Yahoo mail that allowed the US government to monitor the messages of Yahoo Mail users. government, had previously known. There were actually two separate Russian campaigns on Facebook during the 2016 election.

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The Verge

JULY 17, 2020

It won’t say; Dustin Volz describes the range of possibilities nicely at the Wall Street Journal : The social-media company hasn’t said specifically how the attackers penetrated its internal systems and tools or indicated how long they had access to them. Governing. ? How exactly? Marshall Cohen / CNN).

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The Verge

AUGUST 20, 2020

The group has been linked to more than a dozen violent incidents over the last year, including a train hijacking ; last month, a QAnon supporter rammed a car into a government residence in Canada. Governing. ? was arrested on May 1 with dozens of knives in her car. So this feels like useful context to share.

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