The Verge

JANUARY 21, 2021

Alphabet is shutting down Loon, its division that provides internet from floating balloons, according to a post on the blog of Alphabet’s X moonshot division. Loon launched its first commercial internet service in Kenya in July , comprised of a fleet of about 35 balloons that covered an area of around 50,000 square kilometers.

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GeekWire

JUNE 28, 2023

(Photo via TechTalk.seattle.gov) The City of Seattle is awarding $545,000 in Technology Matching Fund grants to help support 18 nonprofit organizations and their projects to expand digital literacy and close the technology gap. The TMF grant program was started in 1997 to support community and nonprofit groups.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Roughly 8% of the state’s households lack high-speed internet connections and 4% don’t have a computing device, according to the Washington State Department of Commerce. Grant recipients will operate hotlines for appointments with digital navigators, provide internet-capable devices, and offer digital skills training.

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TechSpot

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The Internet Archive, a nonprofit digital library that preserves the history of the internet and is home to the beloved Wayback Machine, has suffered a major data breach affecting 31 million users. The incident came to light when visitors to the site encountered an unauthorized JavaScript pop-up message claiming that.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

For example, in a recent paper from researchers at Cornell, the universities of Washington and Waterloo, and the nonprofit research institute AI2, even the best-performing models were able to offer completely accurate responses only a third of the time. Other research support this.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 4, 2023

Many CIOs don’t know where to start,” says Brian Kirkland, CIO at Choice Hotels and founding board member for SustainableIT.org, a nonprofit launched to help create frameworks and standards around sustainability. Morgan Stanley’s IT department, for example, is helping nonprofits as part of its Technology Change Makers program.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 26, 2014

Bray has observed the increasing blurring of the lines differentiating the public sector, the private sector, academia, and nonprofits. The app tested users’ Internet speeds three times per day (downloading and using the app was strictly voluntary and was not incentivized). . — David A. Bray (@fcc_cio) July 30, 2014.

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Network World

OCTOBER 13, 2016

While the internet itself was first envisioned as a way of enabling robust, fault-tolerant communication, the global routing infrastructure that underlies it is relatively fragile. In 2014, ISOC introduced its Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS) initiative.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The number of government-led internet shutdowns has exploded over the last decade as states seek to stifle dissent and protest by limiting citizens’ access to the web. The first significant internet shutdown took place in Egypt in 2011, as a response to protests against then-president Hosni Mubarak. Photo by James Bareham / The Verge.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 20, 2015

Federal CTO Megan Smith to Receive Nonprofit Org’s ‘Charging Buffalo’ Award Sept. Executive Profile: Steven Spano, President of Center for Internet Security. Another lawsuit for OPM, Ashley Madison's government customers and more - FCW.com. GCN names 2015's top tech solutions - Washington Technology.

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Network World

MARCH 28, 2017

To help you navigate the terrain, each year the Information Security Forum (ISF) — a nonprofit association that researches and analyzes security and risk management issues on behalf of its members — puts out its Threat Horizon report to provide members with a forward-looking view of the biggest security threats over a two-year period.

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Dataconomy

JANUARY 9, 2025

VLC media player, developed by nonprofit VideoLAN, has surpassed 6 billion downloads globally and announced a forthcoming AI-powered subtitle feature at CES 2025. The AI-generated subtitles and translations will function locally, negating the dependence on internet connectivity or cloud services, according to the presentation.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 23, 2023

And as an investor it can expect some return on its capital, although this will be limited by OpenAI’s status as a capped-profit company governed by a nonprofit. The risk there — aside from making the internet useless to humans — is that it will pollute the very resource needed to train better AIs.

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GeekWire

MARCH 23, 2025

But the city’s Pacific Science Center, a nonprofit dedicated to inspiring the next generation of innovators, is fighting to stay afloat. . … Read More Pacific Science Center tries to survive as it plans makerspace expansion, eyes real estate deal Seattle is a world-class tech hub. … Read More

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GeekWire

JULY 20, 2020

The Digital Bridge program, developed in response to the coronavirus crisis, is designed to provide internet access and other essential tools to Seattle residents looking for work through the Seattle Jobs Initiative (SJI).

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The Verge

APRIL 11, 2022

The new order authorizes business transactions involving “services, software, hardware, or technology incident to the exchange of communications over the internet,” including messaging, domain registration, email, and sharing photos or videos. Internet communication technologies are key for human rights defenders and independent media”.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Government agencies and nonprofits also seek IT talent for environmental data analysis and policy development. Government agencies and nonprofits are looking for data scientists and engineers to help with climate modeling and environmental impact analysis.

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Vox

JANUARY 27, 2021

Not all seniors have what’s needed to quickly snag a vaccine appointment: a computer and an internet connection. That means snagging an appointment quickly involves computer skills and internet access, or at least help from someone else. More than one-third of seniors in New York City lack reliable internet.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

This is pretty powerful because now we all know how to secure systems and it's been validated by a third party that's a nonprofit and trusted. We have so much change happening and we can drive it to happen in a more positive way to reduce the resource needs for organizations and actually scale security for businesses of all sizes.".

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The value of data in nonprofits Even for Emergency, the Italian NGO, data is a strategic asset to be enhanced and protected. For example, it adapts to the absence of an internet connection and offline work. We have a positive effect on sales thanks to the analysis of data on the consumer’s search intent provided by the Criteo platform.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 7, 2023

We’ve also published, in partnership with the Internet Security Alliance (ISA), the 2023 Director’s Handbook on Cyber-Risk Oversight. One way to get experience is by joining a nonprofit or small private board. It’s difficult, and that’s why a lot of people take that first step on a nonprofit board. The last piece is education.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Stratton has co-founded or served on the startup staff of several successful information security product and service companies, and established the security organization at UUNET, one of the first commercial Internet service providers. About the Center for Innovative Technology, www.cit.org.

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GeekWire

APRIL 2, 2021

This past year made clear both how essential reliable internet is and how many obstacles to access remain for historically disadvantaged groups and neighborhoods,” Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan said in a news release.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

A recent study estimated that in Washington, 15% of students lack needed digital devices while 22% don’t have adequate high-speed internet connections — though a state expert says roughly half of families here are without reliable broadband. It’s a triage situation. million from Microsoft to kickstart the fund.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The advice many survivors like Lorraine receive when they look for help is to leave their online life behind and delete themselves from the internet entirely. For Lorraine, deleting herself from the internet didn’t feel like a solution. “It We can develop intentional boundaries on the internet, it doesn’t have to be all or nothing. “We

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Locast has announced that it is suspending its TV streaming service starting today, following a court ruling earlier this week in a lawsuit from ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC, which jointly sued the nonprofit service shortly after it launched. “As

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GeekWire

JUNE 3, 2024

Loti is among a crop of up-and-coming tech companies and nonprofits developing software to help identify deepfakes and protect their likeness. The company analyzes photos and audio from users, and then scours the internet for potential deepfakes, using advanced facial and voice recognition technology.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 29, 2020

The nonprofit just wrapped up 10 weeks of camps, with nearly 1,500 kids participating at the spacious Seattle campus and three partner locations, and another 1,500 kids enrolled in the Science Center’s virtual camps, including students from out of state. ” That was the case for Elissa Fernandez and her three sons.

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GeekWire

MARCH 9, 2021

SpaceX’s Starlink antenna connects with a network of satellites to provide high-speed internet access. He’s under direction from Washington’s Legislature to bring the entire state up to superfast internet speeds by 2028. Melissa Santos is a reporter for Crosscut , where this story first appeared. SpaceX Starlink Photo).

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Photo courtesy of Devon Horace) RAIN Catalysts , a Pacific Northwest-based nonprofit promoting entrepreneurship for underrepresented groups, is accepting applications for its first tech accelerator. Devon Horace, director of the RAIN Tech Accelerator. The free and virtual 10-week program, funded by the U.S.

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Kitaboo

JUNE 8, 2021

Some of the areas where non-profit organizations can make use of computers, internet and other networking technology include. With the aid of the internet, non-profit associations now have the opportunity to personalize stories like never before. Also Read: 6 Reasons Why Associations & Nonprofits Need a Digital Archive.

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Kitaboo

DECEMBER 26, 2019

These organizations, which are more often than not nonprofit associations, still store their sensitive data in the form of hard copies. Fortunately, this attitude of nonprofits is slowly taking a turn for the better, and many have started espousing the idea of creating a digital archive of their current data. It Frees Up Space.

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GeekWire

JULY 11, 2021

WTA, a 55-year-old nonprofit organization, has often been ahead on tech over the years. WTA launched its website in the early days of the internet, and Drummond said it developed its hiking guide and user-created trip reports before other online trail databases formed.

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GeekWire

JULY 12, 2021

It’s a cellular IoT device that can be embedded into almost any hardware and connect to the internet without relying on WiFi. The idea for Blues came from Ozzie’s work as a board director at Safecast , a data monitoring nonprofit that launched in response to the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.

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The Verge

MAY 21, 2020

The program, officially called “Connecting Heroes,” provides free access to the company’s network over the next decade for members of state and local public and nonprofit law enforcement, fire, and EMS agencies. T-Mobile’s offer of free mobile service for first responders for 10 years is now available, CEO Mike Sievert announced today.

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Kitaboo

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Internet, and thus, by extension, digitization, has changed the way things have been working before their advent. Although it benefits all sectors we work in, we will focus on nonprofit organizations and publishing in this article. Why should nonprofit organizations and associations switch to digital publishing? Conclusion.

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Vox

APRIL 19, 2021

In particular, the senators urged the companies to take action against 12 anti-vaccine influencers — 11 individuals and one couple — who spread anti-vaccine content on the internet. Generally, these approaches have focused on individual pieces of content, not the broader behavior of particular influencers across the internet.

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