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Microsoft’s Erik Arnold merges passion for tech and philanthropy to help nonprofits gain digital success

GeekWire

Arnold spent time at the Gates-owned Corbis, at PATH, which has a close partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and now Microsoft, where Arnold is CTO of the company’s nonprofit-focused Tech for Social Impact. For many nonprofits, it’s not a lack of willingness to modernize, it’s simply not knowing where to start.”

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Your car is about to go open source

Galido

Automakers want to standardize on a Linux-based OS that would make vehicle infotainment systems act more like smartphones. Automakers are working to standardize on a Linux-based operating system for in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) systems that would make it easier for cars to act more like smartphones. In Vehicle Infotainment.

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Top 3 Cyber Predictions in 2023 and How You Can Prepare

ForAllSecure

Compounding the problem is how software for cars is made. The new generation of software security tools work differently and forgo the scanning approach all together. There is a tragedy of the commons for open source software security, and I predict in 2023 we will continue to see more of the same. million vehicles.

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Tech-savvy dad launches open-source platform to save children with rare diseases – including his son

GeekWire

Ramesh, a software engineering manager at Amazon, is founder and CEO of OpenTreatments Foundation , which this week launched an open-source platform called OpenTreatments. The nonprofit works on ocular diseases and assists patient groups desperate for therapies. The Linux Foundation is hosting OpenTreatments. Click to enlarge.).

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Kaskada data scientist Charna Parkey likes to work in areas that can ‘dramatically change the world’

GeekWire

“I moved to Seattle and jumped into the startup world, starting with a senior software engineering role at Textio,” Parkey said of the augmented writing startup. Mac, Windows or Linux? Favorite cause: Instead of a cause I’ll highlight two nonprofits working on intersectional causes in Washington state.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Industrial Control Systems

ForAllSecure

Vamosi: And a lot of these systems do not use the familiar Linux Mac Windows operating systems. Occasionally you'll find a you know Windows Embedded you'll find some sort of Linux but these are all usually sandboxed off from the user. You know a lot of times it's software is not free. How to Buy that software.

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking Aerospace

ForAllSecure

And so some of the things because of those work on nonprofit side, again, all all around the InfoSec community, but looking at these different villages, and if you remember to 2014 Around that time before that or so, car hacking was starting to be in the news, people were talking about it. I can join in, I can follow along.