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MLCommons releases open source datasets for speech recognition

Venture Beast

The nonprofit consortium MLCommons has released a massive, license-free dataset for speech recognition system development and testing. Read More.

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Cybersecurity for Nonprofits: Cost-Effective Defense Strategies

SecureWorld News

Nonprofits often juggle tight budgets and unique operational demands, making it even more difficult to keep sensitive information safe—but here's the thing: you don't need a fortune to build a strong defense against the possible cyber threats out there. Let's take a closer look at some key cybersecurity strategies for nonprofits to consider.

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Why Meta is giving away its extremely powerful AI model

Vox

But more importantly, its open source nature adds new urgency to an important ethical debate over who should control AI — and whether it can be made safe. Zuckerberg also made the case for why it’s better for leading AI models to be “open source,” which means making the technology’s underlying code largely available for anyone to use.

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AI’s impact on art and creators: Ethical and legal concerns over ownership, misinformation, and more

GeekWire

For artists and creators, and those who purchase or license their work, it can be a confusing time to consider how AI will impact who made what and who owns it. On Thursday, the law firm Davis Wright Tremaine and the nonprofit Washington Lawyers for the Arts co-hosted a panel discussion titled “Artificial Intelligence: The New Muse?

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NJVC® Introduces Cloudcuity? AppDeployer to Create and Sell

Cloud Musings

Its software development kit makes it possible to write add-on modules that integrate with open-source, third-party and legacy systems. AppDeployer also is available as a licensed product for deployment in customers’ own clouds. AppDeployer leverages a platform engine licensed from Virtual Global.

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Q&A with Fred Hutch’s new chief data officer on building a data ecosystem at an institutional scale

GeekWire

You want to be very careful to maintain the trust of the nonprofit enterprise, while at the same time finding ways to get the best of the private infrastructure to bring to bear on collaborating to build better solutions for patients. It’s a tricky thing to navigate.

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Richard Stallman returns to the Free Software Foundation after resigning in 2019

The Verge

Open-source software advocate Richard Stallman is rejoining the board of the Free Software Foundation. But for some critics the problems went beyond that exchange , covering other statements and actions he’d made over his years in the open-source software community, where critics said he’d created a hostile environment for women.