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

TechCrunch

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. The incubator was founded by Baroness Bryony Worthington, who was the lead author of the U.K.’s

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Don’t leave developers behind in the Section 230 debate

TechCrunch

Nicknamed the “26 words that created the internet” by Jeff Kosseff, Section 230 established a liability shield for platforms that host third-party content. In the nascent days of the internet, 230 created favorable legal conditions for startups and entrepreneurs to flourish, cementing the United States as a world leader in software.

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It’s time for data ethics conversations at your dinner table

O'Reilly Media - Data

quintillion records of data created every day, people are being defined by how they travel, surf the internet, eat, and live their lives. Boenig-Liptsin notes, “In this time of rapid social and technological change, concepts like ‘privacy,’ ‘fairness,’ and ‘representation’ are reconstituted.” As Barbara C.

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How to securely send your personal information

The Parallax

What to do when Customs asks for your social-media account info. There’s no 100 percent hack-proof way to send your personal information across the Internet. Signal is also open-source, which means that the code on which it’s built is subject to independent reviews. Your next flight itinerary could be easily hacked.

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The End of Silicon Valley as We Know It?

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Understanding four trends that may shape the future of Silicon Valley is also a road map to some of the biggest technology-enabled opportunities of the next decades: Consumer internet entrepreneurs lack many of the skills needed for the life sciences revolution. Internet regulation is upon us. The end of the betting economy.

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Radar Trends to Watch: March 2023

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

As with other Google projects, some intriguing samples are available (the reggae is particularly good), but the model isn’t open to the public. An open-source re-implementation of MusicLM is available on GitHub. An open source version of the compiler for C++ is available.

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Securing voting machines means raising funds

The Parallax

election integrity challenges such as social-engineering interference on Facebook. Security vulnerabilities in electronic voting machines, or EVMs, have been well-documented since at least 2005 , but officials often believed that the problems could be ignored because manufacturers said the machines couldn’t be connected to the Internet.