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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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DEI MIA in new Meta AI advisory group

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The four are Patrick Collison, co-founder and CEO of Stripe, a company that builds financial infrastructure for the internet; Nat Friedman, an entrepreneur and investor who specializes in infrastructure, AI, and developer companies; Tobi Lütke, the founder and CEO of Shopify; and technology investor Charlie Songhurst.

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What you need to know about Okta’s security breach

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On October 20, 2023, Okta Security identified adversarial activity that used a stolen credential to gain access to the company’s support case management system. Once inside the system, the hacker gained access to files uploaded by Okta customers using valid session tokens from recent support cases.

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Fixed wireless access (FWA) is a secure networking option

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Hackers take advantage of out-of-date systems, software, and known security issues. This shows that many modern cyber security challenges are network-agnostic, which means the most popular cyber attack methods typically don’t focus on the network technology the company uses to access the internet.

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4 paths to sustainable AI

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Use more efficient processes and architectures Boris Gamazaychikov, senior manager of emissions reduction at SaaS provider Salesforce, recommends using specialized AI models to reduce the power needed to train them. “Is He also recommends tapping the open-source community for models that can be pre-trained for various tasks. “All

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Infogrid raises $90M for its AI-driven building monitoring tech

TechCrunch

” De Gruchy — who has a fascinating history, having studied cage fighting and served as an army officer before pivoting to a quieter, white-collar career in due diligence analysis — founded Infogrid in 2018. “This trains our AI, which is then refined with user feedback, making it better.”

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Mind Your MANRS: A Safer Internet Through Secure Global Routing

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MANRS, or the Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security, is an initiative of the Internet Society to help secure internet peering relationships and ultimately help secure global routing. MANRS outlines simple, concrete actions organizations can take, tailored to their role on the Internet….”