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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. Some of the areas where non-profit organizations can make use of computers, internet and other networking technology include. Nonprofit Organizations & Associations / December 27, 2019.

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OpenAI’s text-generating system GPT-3 is now spewing out 4.5 billion words a day

The Verge

AI systems learn by absorbing billions of words scraped from the internet and generate text in response to a variety of prompts. OpenAI started life as a nonprofit, but for the last few years, it has been trying to make money with GPT-3 as its first salable product. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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Funding efforts aim to help get students online and bridge the digital divide amid pandemic

GeekWire

Now a few weeks into remote back-to-school, some of Washington’s K-12 students and educators are finding that internet connectivity is a digital divide that they still can’t span as COVID-19 has forced much of life online. The state is surveying residents to pinpoint areas lacking service. Seattle’s Internet for All.

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10 Top Ways: Building an Effective Cybersecurity Awareness Campaign

SecureWorld News

Although by reporting that's how the FTC, that's how the FBI, and that's how the State Attorney General brings their law enforcement actions to find and stop those that are emitting internet fraud. Survey your people and focus on areas of cybersecurity weakness in your organization. I know everybody uses surveys.

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

Vox

When Bryce, a 29-year-old nonprofit director in Kansas City, started using it last summer, “It was the one that everyone was talking about.” It introduced a “We Met” feature, a little survey that asks users whether they went out with someone and if the date was a “type of person they’d like to see again.”

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The next generation of startups is remote

The Verge

I think one of the fun things about YC is that between every batch, we survey our founders, and we ask ourselves, “How do we make the damn thing better?”. And when I look at the entities that do that, it’s government, it’s nonprofits, it’s kind of loosely organized communities, your neighbors, your friends, it’s individuals and it’s business.