GeekWire

MARCH 16, 2021

As schools shifted online, an alarming number of students, families and schools did not have access to technology devices and reliable internet essential for learning. Government programs, nonprofits and educators have hustled to connect kids with digital resources, with varying success. Fewer meaningful social connections.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

And while there are ways to get them taken down, it’s time-consuming to chase down every fake to get it removed, and demoralizing to see ripoffs continue to proliferate across the internet. It’s just a matter of making it available to anyone who posts work on the internet. Photo: Matt Buchholz. Image: Matt Buchholz.

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GeekWire

JUNE 18, 2020

In addition to the bar and the loo, Space Perspective plans to provide a solid wireless internet connection to ensure that passengers will be able to share their experiences on social media in real time. “It’s the ultimate Facebook status update,” MacCallum said.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 31, 2024

A new nonprofit, nonpartisan technology organization called TrueMedia is developing an AI-powered tool to detect deepfake videos, photos, and audio, aiming to combat political disinformation in the leadup to the 2024 elections. The plan, in essence, is to use AI to fight AI.

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Vox

JULY 14, 2023

A considerably smaller Canadian publication, the Tyee, reported on Wednesday that its social media manager, Sarah Krichel, was similarly blocked from viewing its Instagram account which, considering her job title, might be a bit of an issue. And, yes, the internet has decimated the journalism industry.

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Galido

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Tesla’s Model S IVI system is designed to allow drivers to navigate using Google Maps with live traffic information, listen to streaming music from any online radio station and have access to an Internet browser for news or restaurant reviews. With Google Maps, Tesla drivers can also locate recharging locations.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 7, 2021

Tennisha: Black Girls hack is a nonprofit organization we recently got our 501 C three designation. Vamosi: So she founded Black Girls Hack to help others. I've mentioned before but InfoSec Twitter is a valuable resource. If you follow members and ask questions, you're likely to get answers.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 7, 2021

Black Girls hack is a nonprofit organization we recently got our 501 C three designation. Vamosi: So she founded Black Girls Hack to help others. I've mentioned before but InfoSec Twitter is a valuable resource. If you follow members and ask questions, you're likely to get answers.

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The Verge

JULY 30, 2020

It’s not some subtle game-playing program that can outthink humanity’s finest or a mechanically advanced robot that backflips like an Olympian. No, it’s merely an autocomplete program, like the one in the Google search bar. You start typing and it predicts what comes next. GPT stands for “generative pre-training.”) So far, so simple.

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Vox

APRIL 22, 2022

This buzzy phrase , popularized on social media in the pandemic, rejects work as a basis for identity, framing it instead as an act to pursue out of financial necessity. The difference is, more young people are airing these indignations and jaded attitudes on the internet, often to viral acclaim.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Our guests included: Cindy Liebes, Chief Program Officer for the Cybercrime Support Network; Jake Wilson, Security Awareness Evangelist for Western Governors University; and Gretel Egan, Senior Security Awareness and Training Strategist for Proofpoint. I can go into my [saved] folders, and find our folder on social engineering.

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Vox

APRIL 10, 2023

He was recently granted the additional title of head of generative AI at Stern, and is helping develop an AI initiative for Stern’s MBA program so students, faculty, and administrators can become comfortable with AI tools in the workplace. How can I actually get smarter?’” said Grennan. They certainly don’t feel like frogs boiling in a pot.

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Vox

MARCH 4, 2023

The new Bing uses generative AI in its web search function to return results that appear as longer, written answers culled from various internet sources instead of a list of links to relevant websites. Generative AI is already starting to find its way into mainstream applications for everything from food shopping to social media.

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Vox

MARCH 30, 2023

A lot of people who saw it thought it was fun, too, so they spread it around social media. You might even call it a turning point in the war against mis- and disinformation, which the people fighting were, frankly, already losing simply because social media exists. We’ve had this issue with text and misinformation on social platforms.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 14, 2022

CBS: A computer security researcher was kept off a plane for suggesting on social media that he could hack into the planes control system. She talked about programming to save weight for space missions, and bringing the internet to the International Space Station. And so that was a a high school level program.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 28, 2021

The story here, reportedly, is that Roblox developers end up with few useful skills, since programming for Roblox bears little resemblance to making a game anywhere else, and the poor conversion rate on the in-game “Robux” awards means they’re effectively working for pennies. You can’t have an Internet of Things if there aren’t any things.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

One notorious scheme like this piggybacked on vulnerabilities in popular CMS platforms, such as WordPress and Drupal, to hack websites used by big-name nonprofits, U.S. Under the guise of account hacking tools, the malefactors were mostly distributing a spyware program known as Emotet. government entities, and colleges.

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The Verge

MARCH 4, 2021

It is the final work of a coalition of some of the most respected names in platform analysis in academia and the nonprofit world: the Stanford Internet Observatory, the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public, Graphika, and the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab. no widespread fraud.

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GeekWire

JUNE 9, 2021

It called out four main areas: Aiding justice reform: Microsoft has a five-year, $50 million program to work on justice reform and projects include researching and sharing data on justice issues and promoting better public policy. million in grants, and created a database of 36,000 Black-led nonprofits that could be future partners.

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 11, 2022

With a PhD in Planning and Innovation Studies, and a Master’s degree in Architecture, Urban Design and Urban Planning, Karuri-Sebina has a sound knowledge base for her work as Executive Manager of programs at the South African Cities Network. Reyhan Huseynova. Location: Azerbaijan. Location: Beijing, China. Ayesha Khanna. Location: Singapore.

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The Verge

MAY 19, 2020

Human needs are pretty fundamental, I think, in terms of being social, wanting to meet people. I felt that, given a lot of our work could be done from home, it made sense for us to contribute to social distancing. Because from a certain perspective, it rises to a governmental level of a social contract with users.

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Vox

JANUARY 12, 2021

Signal, once a niche messaging service for the privacy-minded, is currently the most downloaded app in the United States, unseating perennially popular social media and gaming apps. Previously, the number of new Signal users has rocketed up following social or political unrest. More secure programs require jumping through more hoops.

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

We need to get the internet to everyone in America. Riario oversees nine libraries in the Catskills region, where some areas don’t have access to broadband internet at all. A $60-a-month internet option, about the national average , is only available if you have that $60. Broadband internet in the United States is not great.

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GeekWire

APRIL 5, 2021

A years-long campaign to turn internet service into a public utility in Washington state could get a big boost from President Joe Biden’s massive infrastructure plan. The proposal Biden unveiled last week pledges to spend $100 billion to make broadband internet service available and affordable to all Americans.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

All of it is basically in keeping with how American social platforms manage these concerns, though it’s worth noting that 2-year-old TikTok built this infrastructure much faster than its predecessors did. Do social networks pull us into self-reinforcing echo chambers, or don’t they? Trending up : Google is giving more than $8.5

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The Verge

MAY 14, 2020

Social media is already filling up with misinformation about a COVID-19 vaccine, months or years before one even exists. They are savvy media manipulators, effective communicators and experienced at exploiting the weaknesses of social media platforms. Reported cases in Illinois: 83,168. Data from The New York Times. Governing. ?

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The Verge

MAY 28, 2020

But you could also use it as an umbrella term to talk about initiatives related to what Facebook and other social networks have lately taken to calling “platform integrity” — removing hate speech, for example, or labeling misinformation. He threatened to shut down social media companies. He said “big action” would follow.

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