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Should abuse survivors have to disappear from the internet?

The Verge

The advice many survivors like Lorraine receive when they look for help is to leave their online life behind and delete themselves from the internet entirely. A 2015 survey of college students found that nearly 75 percent had experienced some kind of tech-assisted intimate partner victimization in the past year.

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Why Should Associations Invest In Technology?

Kitaboo

A survey by Fairfield County Community Foundation found that 22% of non-profit associations have no budget for information technology. The few non-profit associations who have appropriate software do not have a proper budget for training staff on how to make the most of the software. Volunteer management and support.

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Online daters love to hate on Hinge. 10 years in, it’s more popular than ever.

Vox

“It’s definitely the best of the worst” “It is the everybody app,” said Nahal, a 34-year-old executive at a software company who splits her time between New York and Los Angeles, who has used the app on and off since 2020. When Hinge had a service outage in March of this year, the internet was brimming with glee.

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The next generation of startups is remote

The Verge

And the reason why was because we felt like they had an advantage in building a product in a software world. When I talk to people who have the technical skills, who are interested in software, who are interested in startups, socio-economic barriers are really tricky. Can it do it with just software alone? That’s still core.

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Here are all the winners of the 2020 Webby Awards

The Verge

Webby Break the Internet Award: Swizz Beatz + Timbaland for the Verzuz battles on Instagram Live. 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.

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Vulcan and Tableau team up to protect the planet with EarthRanger data analysis project

GeekWire

Last month Vulcan announced that EarthRanger and a number of other AI-related projects would be moving to the nonprofit Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, another organization founded by Paul Allen. EarthRanger’s software enhances understanding about what patrol management teams need to do in real time.

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Should we make our most powerful AI models open source to all?

Vox

The AI cybersecurity researcher Jeffrey Ladish told me that his nonprofit, Palisade Research, has tested how difficult this workaround is as part of efforts to better understand risks from AI systems. Openly releasing research has been a cornerstone of progress and collaboration in the programming community since the dawn of the internet.