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Ada Developers Academy: A no-cost career program that aims to diversify IT

CIO Business Intelligence

Mariya Burrows wanted to make a career change to software development after taking an introductory course on the topic, but the last thing she wanted to do was take out more student loans. Ada Developers Academy, founded in 2013, is a nonprofit coding school for women and gender-expansive adults — and it’s completely free.

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GeekWire Awards 2021: Geeks Give Back celebrates groups that better our community

GeekWire

And GeekWire is here to recognize and celebrate a select few of these groups through our Geeks Give Back Award. Past winners for this category include the Year Up and Apprenti training programs, the Technology Access Foundation (TAF) and a campaign to end malaria. Ada Developers Academy. Create your own user feedback survey.

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How to Build a Developer-First Application Security Program

SecureWorld News

The DevOps culture promotes a shared understanding between developers and operations to ensure that the responsibility for creating a successful outcome is distributed evenly. The efficiencies in this approach enable businesses to produce software at an ever-increasing pace. How to build a developer-first AppSec program.

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IBM’s Project CodeNet will test how far you can push AI to write software

Venture Beast

IBM’s AI group released CodeNet, a 14-million-sample dataset for training machine learning models to help software developers be productive. Read More.

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Lazarus APT Continues to Exploit Log4j Vulnerability

SecureWorld News

Lazarus, the notorious North Korean hacking group, has once again made headlines, this time by exploiting the Log4j vulnerability, despite it being disclosed two years ago. Despite widespread awareness and patches issued by software developers, the vulnerability's exploitation remains a persistent threat.

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3 nonprofits committed to empowering women in tech

CIO Business Intelligence

Ada Developers Academy bridges the app-dev gender gap Ada Developers Academy was started in 2013 as a nonprofit no-cost coding school to support women and gender-expansive adults who want to embark on careers in software development. I was never stuck on anything for too long because I had multiple avenues of support.

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19 organizations advancing women in tech

CIO Business Intelligence

Today’s networking and advocacy landscape finds a growing array of programs and organizations for girls, women, and anyone who identifies as a woman — and plenty are also open to male allies. Ada’s List is an email-based group that is open to anyone who identifies as a woman and works in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics.

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