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Released from court oversight, a Seattle research institution rebrands and resets

GeekWire

When a court-appointed overseer took hold of the operations of the Infectious Disease Research Institute in early 2020 it was unclear how the Seattle organization would weather the change. The institute now focuses on a few core technologies that it can license at earlier stages to biopharma companies.

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IBM will no longer offer, develop, or research facial recognition technology

The Verge

The company will also no longer develop or research the technology, IBM tells The Verge. Yet Rekognition, the name of the program, has also been criticized for its accuracy. IBM will no longer offer general purpose facial recognition or analysis software, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna said in a letter to Congress today.

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Researchers create ‘Shadow Figment’ cybersecurity decoy tech that lures attackers into a fake world

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Fortunately, innovative research at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is bringing a new tool to the battle against this kind of cybercrime. But Shadow Figment needs to be one piece of a broader program of cybersecurity defense. based Attivo Networks under a nonexclusive license. They call it Shadow Figment. BigStock Photo).

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Seattle mayor wants city to test new safety tech that could curb gun violence, stolen vehicles

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million of salary savings in the SPD into a new crime prevention pilot to implement automatic license plate readers, CCTV cameras, and acoustic gunshot locator systems to deter criminal behavior and hold offenders accountable.” The tech is controversial and has received criticism from researchers and privacy advocates.

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DARPA Open Catalog: A repository of DARPA-sponsored software and publications

CTOvision

By Bob Gourley DARPA funds research in many areas and their wide and deep connections in academia, industry and with many private citizens means much of this is already shared. But in a continuing effort to find better ways to share what can be shared they have just built an online catalog for sharable code and peer-reviewed research.

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Tech Moves: Ex-Amazon sports leader lands at DraftKings; Seattle tech vet launches advisory firm

GeekWire

Debique is a former longtime Microsoft leader and also co-founded a startup called SyncFloor which aimed to provide licensed commercial music to businesses and creators. Kelley previously was a program director for Microsoft’s military affairs program and was a talent acquisition director at Amazon.

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NSA Releases A New Technology to Open Source Community

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It is the first in a series of releases of in-house software products by NSA’s Technology Transfer Program (TTP). Posting the code to open source forums allows the private sector and others to examine the agency’s research up close, and potentially benefit from it through additional enhancements and applications.