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OCTOBER 16, 2014

The awards honor innovative, mature, and results-oriented use cases for CDH, the world’s most popular open source Hadoop-based distribution and key component of the Cloudera Enterprise platform. Government, Nonprofit, & NGO. ? Merv Adrian, Research Vice President, Gartner. ? Arizona State University. ?

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JULY 12, 2023

The City received pro-bono support from the Google.org Fellowship program , a part of Google’s philanthropic arm that provides technical expertise to help nonprofits and civic entities solve technical challenges. Smart Cities Connect named CiviForm one the 50 most transformative smart projects of 2023.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 14, 2023

Fine-tuning applies to both hosted cloud LLMs and open source LLM models you run yourself, so this level of ‘shaping’ doesn’t commit you to one approach. That will start with using the Copilot features Microsoft is introducing in many products, including in Cloud for Nonprofit. “It

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GeekWire

APRIL 2, 2021

As his son is now approaching his third birthday, Ramesh is working with researchers in pursuit of a gene therapy to correct Raghav’s rare condition, and he is spearheading a first-of-its-kind effort to help others do the same. Researchers estimate there are more than 6,000 different rare diseases. Click to enlarge.).

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Vox

JUNE 10, 2020

Researchers have for years warned about the problems with facial recognition. Activists and researchers have sounded the alarm for years about facial recognition technology’s myriad problems, including its racial and gender biases and privacy risks. Lluis Gene / AFP via Getty Images. Now Big Blue is ditching the tech.

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The Verge

AUGUST 10, 2021

AI research company OpenAI is releasing a new machine learning tool that translates the English language into code. One application users found for GPT-3 was generating code, but Codex improves upon its predecessors’ abilities and is trained specifically on open-source code repositories scraped from the web.

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GeekWire

JULY 21, 2023

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? 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.

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Vox

JANUARY 27, 2021

But America’s digital divide is getting in the way: Nearly 30 percent of people in the US over the age of 65 do not use the internet, and more than 40 percent did not have broadband access at home, according to a 2019 report from the Pew Research Center. “If Open Sourced is made possible by Omidyar Network. They’re going out.

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GeekWire

MAY 12, 2021

RELATED: Tech-savvy dad launches open-source platform to save children with rare diseases – including his son. Researchers estimate there are more than 6,000 different rare diseases, including the one that afflicts Raghav. But there were other researchers who worked on the gene, called GPX4, so Ramesh reached out to them.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

“We’re not surprised scammers are taking advantage of this opportunity because each of the states are rolling out the vaccine a little bit differently,” Sandra Guile of the Better Business Bureau, a nonprofit that focuses on consumer and marketplace trust, told Recode. Open Sourced is made possible by Omidyar Network.

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Vox

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Ashkan Soltani was part of the Do Not Track effort back in 2010 as a staff technologist at the FTC and has spent most of his career researching and investigating internet privacy and tracking. Open Sourced is made possible by Omidyar Network. All Open Sourced content is editorially independent and produced by our journalists.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 12, 2022

Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has recruited a new vice president and chief data officer: biostatistician and data science educator Jeffrey Leek. at the University of Washington and has kept relationships with regional researchers. Incoming Fred Hutch chief data officer Jeffrey Leek. Photo courtesy of Leek).

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GeekWire

APRIL 29, 2023

New research from Seattle’s Allen Institute for AI can help improve AI’s ability to interpret and learn, so they can provide us with better tools in the future. Earlier this month Seattle-based Allen Institute for AI (AI2) released an open multimodal augmentation of the popular text-only corpus, c4.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 17, 2023

For example, in 2021 researchers showed how to hack a Tesla using a drone. A typical car is a mix of open source, OEM, and custom code. For example, take Mayhem 's result on 1,644 open source programs. Nonprofits like the Linux Foundation, and a few big tech companies like Google are investing.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

From left: Cyrus Biotechnology CEO Lucas Nivon, Microsoft researcher Jonathan Carlson, Deepcell CEO Maddison Masaeli, and moderator Chris Picardo, a Madrona venture partner. What does it actually mean to be able to build large foundation models when we can’t even get the data open? GeekWire Photo / Charlotte Schubert).

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 4, 2024

And while all those moments-that-matter matter, there will be one that makes someone throw up their hands and say, ‘I’m out,’” says Nicholas Kozlo, senior research analyst in the people and leadership practice at Info-Tech Research Group. “So Salary is one of those things that pulls people away from otherwise stable jobs.”

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Tracking all those contracts “is an entire project that, in a just world, a team of people would be summarizing in real time,” says Jack Poulson, founder of the nonprofit watchdog Tech Inquiry. Satellites are not new, but small, commercial ones are a major emerging space for venture capital and new startups.

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Vox

MARCH 9, 2021

Between May 2019 and May 2020, nonprofit organization Avaaz found that Facebook saw a whopping 3.8 And in May 2020, “Plandemic,” a conspiracy video that accused Anthony Fauci of hiding research about supposed deleterious effects of vaccinations, went viral and got millions of interactions on Facebook. Kennedy Jr.,

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Vox

MARCH 6, 2023

billion into 110 deals toward generative AI startups — a record high for investment in the field, according to a recent report from business research firm CB Insights. And open source generative AI firm Stability AI says it has paying clients in the film industry who use its software to autogenerate images.

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Vox

MARCH 4, 2023

And the open-source model Stable Diffusion can generate detailed and specific images in all kinds of styles from text prompts. This is a demonstration of its abilities as well as a source of even more data for OpenAI’s models to learn from. TikTok has a generative AI text-to-image system. Design platform Canva has one , too.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Meta has been a leader in making AI open source. 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. That’s the good news.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

This is a classic case of Facebook acting too little, too late,” Fadi Quran, a campaign director at the nonprofit Avaaz who leads its disinformation team, told Recode. Open Sourced is made possible by Omidyar Network. All Open Sourced content is editorially independent and produced by our journalists.

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Vox

JUNE 25, 2020

It’s through some of these domains that Natural News content can still end up being shared on Facebook, the researchers found. Meanwhile, researchers at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue say that it flagged several pages and groups that have frequently shared Natural News content to Facebook, but those pages and groups remain up.

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 11, 2022

Karuri-Sebina also serves as a director for the Southern Africa node of the Millennium Project and an associate of the Institute for Economic Research on Innovation. Njonjo works as Lead Consultant for LongView Consult , a socio-economic research and policy analysis firm that she founded in 2014. Twitter: @geci. Twitter: @raya_bid.

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Vox

APRIL 2, 2021

“It’s an earnest effort to attain digital equity for all Americans, address overpriced internet service, and implement greater transparency and accountability,” Willmary Escoto of digital rights nonprofit Access Now told Recode. Open Sourced is made possible by Omidyar Network.

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Vox

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Pew Research Center found about 60 percent of people would probably or definitely get the vaccine in an early December survey. Some researchers have found, for instance, that Angelina Jolie’s 2013 op-ed about getting a preventive double mastectomy might have boosted genetic testing that could indicate future breast cancer. “We

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Vox

JANUARY 20, 2021

While Facebook has now banned even referencing “stop the steal,” groups related to the movement that have thousands of members are still active, and have simply changed their names to avoid takedowns, according to preliminary research from the nonprofit Avaaz, which researches mis- and disinformation.

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Vox

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Vote.org , a nonprofit working with the company on voter turnout initiatives, declined to comment. Open Sourced is made possible by Omidyar Network. All Open Sourced content is editorially independent and produced by our journalists. Nextdoor tries to discourage discussion of national politics.

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