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Google expands program to help train the formerly incarcerated

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Last April, Google launched Grow with Google Career Readiness for Reentry, a program created in partnership with nonprofits to offer job readiness and digital skills training for formerly incarcerated individuals. Inmates can go well over a decade without access to technologies like smartphones and only limited familiarity with the internet.

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Blacklight tracks the website trackers

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Amy Jessel made the conscious decision not to buy Facebook or Google ads to promote her nonprofit company, ShapingYouth. Jessel realized how pervasive website trackers are through Blacklight , a new open-source tool that exposes website tracking on a per-site basis. Here’s how to tell. 6 security add-ons to protect your browser.

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Blacklight tracks the website trackers

The Parallax

Amy Jessel made the conscious decision not to buy Facebook or Google ads to promote her nonprofit company, ShapingYouth. The Markup hopes others will take advantage of Blacklight’s open-source code to build other ways of exposing website tracking. This story was originally commissioned by Dark Reading.

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Should you build or buy generative AI?

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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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Subak, which incubates data-for-climate not-for-profits, announces six startups in 2022 cohort

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based incubator focused on nonprofit startups that are addressing climate-related challenges through open-source data initiatives has announced the six startups which will be put through its 2022 program. EnergyTag : Another energy-focused startup with a mission of accelerating the shift to renewable energy.

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Bitcoin’s bid to become the “one chain to rule them all”

TechCrunch

As an open-source blockchain, Ethereum lets developers easily build decentralized applications, or “dapps” on top of it, enabling use cases such as minting NFTs and offering DeFi lending products through which investors can earn interest. . Stacks , formerly known as BlockStack, plays a crucial role in expanding use cases for Bitcoin.

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David Bray of FCC @FCC_CIO Discusses Public Service and Data Analytics at 2014 Analyst Forum 

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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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