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$5M Climate Impact Fund launches to support entrepreneurs tackling the climate crisis

GeekWire

Portland-based nonprofit VertueLab launched its $5 million Climate Impact Fund on Wednesday to support early stage, clean tech entrepreneurs focused on addressing climate change causes and moving to a carbon-free economy. This summer, the accelerator accepted 10 early-stage companies in the latest round of the program.

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25 Years Later: InfraGard Leads the Way Toward a Safer America

SecureWorld News

The InfraGard ® program turned 25 years old last year. The private sector component of the InfraGard program is represented by InfraGard National Members Alliance (INMA), an FBI-affiliated independent nonprofit organization. When the program was established in 1996, the idea of InfraGard was truly ahead of its time.

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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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How to leverage data to create a more intelligent organization

CIO Business Intelligence

Srinivasan will share Petco’s ongoing data journey at CIO’s Future of Data Summit , taking place virtually May 10-11. The program begins May 10 with Hilary Mason, data scientist in residence at Accel Partners.

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As worries spark over the carbon impacts of NFTs, some unexpected boosters come to their defense

GeekWire

The more urgent question for many is this: what are the climate impacts of tethering the sales of virtual items to cryptocurrency? That includes two Pacific Northwest-based efforts working to create trustworthy platforms for carbon exchanges: the nonprofit Blockchain for Climate Foundation and a startup called Nori. “I

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The cybersecurity ‘pandemic’ that led to the Colonial Pipeline disaster

The Verge

Alpharetta, Georgia-based Colonial Pipeline, which has the largest fuel pipeline, was forced to shut down its oil and gas pipeline system on Friday after a ransomware attack that has slowed down the transportation of oil in the eastern U.S. And while the attacks are virtual, the consequences can be quickly felt on the ground.

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking Aerospace

ForAllSecure

In 2015, shortly after the Jeep hack, the National Transportation and Safety Board (NTSB) released a study suggesting that someone could take wireless signals within an airplane and perhaps cause mischief. Next to that we had a virtual reality training that the Air Force uses for pilot training. Or a satellite in space?