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Don’t leave developers behind in the Section 230 debate

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Shelley McKinley Contributor Share on Twitter Shelley McKinley is chief legal officer at GitHub, home to more than 100 million software developers. Supreme Court reviewed Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996. These developers maintain the invisible but essential software infrastructure that powers our daily lives.

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Chernobyl’s lessons for critical-infrastructure cybersecurity

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According to a 2017 estimate by the United States-based nonprofit Clean Futures Fund , this dog was one of hundreds of strays living in the Exclusion Zone, near the power plant, and in the abandoned cities of Chernobyl and Pripyat, which once housed the nuclear facility’s employees.

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9 ways IT leaders can impact sustainability initiatives

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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. Data management, automation, analytics is critical to reviewing our progress in ESG,” she says. “As

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After Russia warning, hole found in leading industrial-control software

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Department of Homeland Security and the British National Cyber Security Centre warned critical-infrastructure facilities controlling electricity, water, and oil and gas operations about potential computer attacks from Russia. “In Nor does it know how many systems running the affected software remain unpatched. On March 16, the U.S.

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10 best practices when partnering for strategic skills

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Such partnerships include long-standing ones such as business consultancies to advise on transformation efforts, software vendors with expertise in vertical or horizontal solutions, system integrators to help design and implement multi-vendor tech stacks, and managed service providers to run and optimize targeted IT domains.

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10 fastest growing US tech hubs for IT talent

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Phoenix is home to tech companies such as ADP, Workiva, ServiceNow, Traffic Tech, BigTime Software, and General Motors. Tampa alone makes up 25% of Florida’s tech jobs, with more than 50 IT and software companies located in the city and an additional 2,000 jobs expected to be added in the coming year. Tampa, Fla. Raleigh, N.C.

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Y Combinator widens its bet in edtech in latest batch

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In its latest batch, the famed accelerator had its highest number of edtech startups yet: 14 companies from around the world, working on everything from teacher monetization to homework apps to ways to train software engineers in an affordable fashion. Codingal: An afterschool program for Indian kids to learn coding.

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