Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Following its 2023 unveiling of two of the largest quantum computers ever made, IBM expanded and upgraded its cloud quantum service and its open-source Qiskit quantum software platform in 2024. NextSilicon plans to build on the adoption of the companys Maverick-1 chips by government agencies and academia. billion, a 33.9%

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

depends largely on two things: open standards, and open source software. And I think that they will be key to providing Government 2.0, which is as technically transparent and open as it hopefully will be in actuality. And I think that they will be key to providing Government 2.0, Well, Web 2.0

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

This is where fully open APIs based on open source software are a great help and the technology of the future. Fully open APIs don’t just harness open-source software, but rather are combined with a complete description of how the infrastructure is made and how it operated – it’s an entirely open process.

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TechNode

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

DeepSeeks adoption has spread so rapidly that it is no longer just about cutting-edge AI it is about an entirely new way of doing business. Context: DeepSeeks R1 release has disrupted the global AI industry with its open-source nature and low integration cost.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Its now parlaying its advancement of business AI into serving as an open-source tools hub for the technology community. Its compliance software helps crypto companies fulfill anti-money-laundering and other legal requirements while its investigative software helps government agencies regulate the industry.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 20, 2006

This is a musing on the current state of the Gnu Public License, which governs a preponderance of open-source software projects. But first, let's talk about what open-source means for a minute. This is what has permitted such widespread commercial adoption of the open source idea.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

It sells in to heavy-weight customers where security is very much front of mind — including governments, militaries and regulated businesses with high compliance requirements around information (such as the finance and healthcare sectors).

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Data.gov In brainstorming ideas to create Datamasher , the team spent a lot of time perusing data.gov and thinking about making government data more accessible by the average informed citizen. Applications like Datamasher would be far more numerous and effective if government made its data accessible over APIs. Open Standards.

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Gyrus

JANUARY 9, 2025

GyrusAim LMS offers a predictable cost structure, minimizing hidden expenses often associated with open-source platforms like Moodle. While open-source solutions like Moodle are popular in academic settings, they fail to address the complexities of military training. Why GyrusAim LMS Is the Right Choice 1.

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NTEN

MARCH 10, 2010

Session: Working with Open Source Software and Vendors. Free and Open Source Software. Whether it is on the desktop like Firefox and Open Office or the Ubuntu Linux operating system, or on servers (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) and running CMSs and CRMs (like Drupal and CiviCRM). Speaker: Gregory Heller, CivicActions.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

– "Despite the enormous popularity of peer-to-peer social networking, the adoption cycle for branded online communities has been relatively slow. "Open source software exists in the computer industry. Open architecture exists in the construction industry. " What do you think?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

Office Open XML is Microsoft’s XML-based file format which is now native in Office 2007. Instead of adopting the already ISO approved Open Document format, it attempted to get through ISO a standard that, among other things, depends too much on non-standard, non-publicly available legacy file formats. Be Helpful.

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The Verge

APRIL 16, 2022

The latest news: Twitter’s board adopts “poison pill” to thwart Musk’s takeover bid. These include an edit feature, an open-source algorithm, less moderation, and a higher bar for removing offending tweets. He views Twitter as the “de facto town square” and wants to open source the social media company’s algorithm.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

The company already serves more than 150,000 businesses, governments, and other organizations across the legal, tech, media, manufacturing, and retail industries, including known names such as Nikkei, Panasonic Connect, Zendesk, and Morningstar. In March 2024, the company introduced RAG 2.0, and the accompanying app, in September 2024.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Are they adopting new methods fast enough to respond to their constituents in the digital age? It is also an entertaining case study in the power of grassroots innovation and open-source creativity, a positive symbol of how unchecked human energy, shaped by a few simple rules, can unleash truly amazing results."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

for government, social networks, open-source CMS, etc.). adoption for nonprofits). link] (online organizing, grassroots, web 2.0 link] (consultant to nonprofits; board development, communications, web 2.0 link] (mgmt. consultant for nonprofits, social entrepreneurship, arts and environmental issues).

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

In recent years, the adoption of confidential computing technologies has accelerated, with major tech companies including Intel, Google, Microsoft, Arm, and Red Hat founding an organization — the Confidential Computing Consortium — to advance data protection standards.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

Bovee and Querna realized that while more organizations were adopting Zero Trust strategies, they were not enacting privilege controls. Automation that solves privilege management and governance is the next major pillar of cloud identity,” Accel’s Li said. Why do SaaS companies with usage-based pricing grow faster?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

For nonprofit data, creating this language is becoming a self-organizing necessity in the same way that the Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESGs) criteria are for the corporate world. Enter the Nonprofit Common Data Model (CDM) , originally stewarded by Microsoft as a founding creator and ongoing community sponsor.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2023

Image Credits: Ditto “By operating independently of an internet connection, Ditto’s platform enables industries to swiftly adopt contactless solutions, bolstering their apps and processes with added resiliency and redundancy,” Fish said. government and allies,” Fish said. billion by 2026, according to Technavio.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 19, 2021

OFM: A Model for Partner Participation in Open Source Community Projects. Adopt Radical Empathy with Terri Givens. Lorenzo has over ten years of experience in public policy, government, talent pipeline development, diversity, and inclusion. Zak Kaufman, Vera Solutions, and Andrew Means, Salesforce.org.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

Called Mozilla.ai , the newly forged company’s mission isn’t to build just any AI — its mission is to build AI that’s open source and “trustworthy,” according to Mark Surman, the executive president of Mozilla and the head of Mozilla.ai. Surman describes Mozilla.ai ” Mozilla.ai “Mozilla.ai

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

According to a February report from security vendor Optiv Security — admittedly not a neutral third party — only 21% of businesses have adopted zero trust as a “foundational model.” “Tailscale sits at the intersection between network infrastructure (connectivity) and security. Designed by Jason A.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

Since its adoption at the United Nations General Assembly in 1948, the Declaration has become a universal standard for the promotion and protection of human rights worldwide. 2011 has been an amazing year for human rights defenders. This past year, our HRP team helped the human rights movement achieve great things.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

“AI Fund is excited to support WhyLabs, whose open source logging library and AI observability platform makes it easy for developers to maintain real time logs and monitor ML deployments.” . “ML engineers need better tools to ensure high-quality data through all stages of an ML project’s life cycle,” said Ng.

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Towards Data Science

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

These include open-source options like Weaviate , managed solutions like Pinecone and many more. The introduction of dbt core , the free tier of the dbt product, has played a pivotal role in familiarizing data engineers and analysts with dbt, hastening its adoption, and fueling the swift development of new features.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Open source data analytics technologies are powerful indeed, able to drive both user- and business-facing features like a social media sidewall that shows members who’s viewing their profiles. According to Gopalakrishna, one of the most powerful capabilities of the StarTree platform is that it can run the data plane (i.e.,

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Startups and VC Bringing us a reminder that a company’s services may be at the mercy of state governments from time to time, Pakistan has “degraded” Wikipedia in the country for 48 hours for not removing “sacrilegious contents” and warned of fully blocking the site if the online encyclopedia fails to comply with the directions, Manish reports.

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sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

In a sector that is so risk-averse—afraid of change, reluctant to explore new ideas, and adopt new practices—why do we rely on super risky problem-solving skills? The Funder’s Role in Risk Funders—by which I mean donors, foundations, impact investors, and government agencies that grant financial support—disincentivize risk in a few ways.

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DataRobot

MARCH 8, 2023

DataRobot integration with SAP Datasphere enables customers to have quick access to their most updated, trusted, and governed data assets—with business context and logic intact. So in order to get maximum value from AI, it needs to build machine learning models that are unique to each of its business usecase.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Moreover, the White House’s continued focus on … creating resiliency in America’s supply chains has brought a new focus to the risks inherent in a global economy, and has also driven increased demand from government agencies in Eclypsium’s solutions.” federal government contracts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2007

Legal and Mgmt : open source?; Installed based : # of actual users; number, quality and diversity of objects free or for sale; size of developer community; level of adoption by academic, corporate, government users. IP (who owns created objects?); Example virtual worlds: Second Life; Active Worlds; Entropia; Olive.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

Chatwoot is an open source customer engagement suite alternative to Intercom and Zendesk. The startup, leveraging New Delhi’s new regulations, is using a government issued ID card to fetch insurance policies. The startup says recent laws such as GDPR and CPRA have helped drive adoption of SigNoz.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 2, 2022

In 2017, I attended a small conference of government representatives, civil society leaders, and tech company volunteers from around the world. When I worked at Salesforce, I volunteered with many front-line anti-trafficking organizations around the world, and I saw the scale of the crisis and its human impact first-hand.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Bitcoin’s low fees, enabled primarily by the Lightning Network, and early widespread adoption mean the blockchain has become synonymous with payments. Its open-source network allows custom smart contracts to be built on Bitcoin, enabling developers to use the Bitcoin blockchain to create dapps. More than just an asset.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

This has the largest direct impact on the major donor end of the spectrum, as well as foundations and some government programs. Navy have been broadly adopting open source software. Nonprofits should seize this opportunity to embrace innovations like open source applications that are becoming the standard for the future.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2013

The diverse crowd, made up of students, activists, government employees, and librarians, worked on datasets presented by the U.S. Open source champion Brian Behlendorf spoke at the event, encouraging the hackers to focus on finding an interesting problem to solve rather than worrying about building a sustainable model.

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