Fri.Feb 14, 2025

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5 warning signs it’s time to make a change to your executive team

Fast Company Tech

I once hired an executivewell call her Alicewho elevated our company overnight. She helped shape our strategy, built a great team, and brought instant credibility to our brand. Our growth accelerated. The board respected her. The team loved her. I felt lucky to have her. But five years later, things had changed. Alice looked exhausted. She was short-tempered in meetings.

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10 Costly Mistakes That Hurt Your Golf Fundraiser

NonProfit PRO

A golf fundraiser should be a hole-in-one for your nonprofit, but often, hidden mistakes can make you lose revenue, limit participation, and frustrate donors & guests. Are you missing out on big sponsorship deals? Struggling with low player turnout? Losing revenue at check-in and checkout? Uncover the top 10 pitfalls that can make or break your fundraising tournamentand the proven strategies to maximize fundraising, streamline logistics, and create an unforgettable experience for sponsors an

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[ASK AN EXPERT] Foolproof Secrets To Raising Unrestricted Nonprofit Funding?

Bloomerang

Our Ask An Expert series features real questions answered by Claire Axelrad, J.D., CFRE, our very own Fundraising Coach , also known as Charity Clairity. Todays question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on how to raise unrestricted nonprofit funding: Dear Charity Clairity, How do you talk about something specific in an appeal letter, but still raise unrestricted funding for use where most needed?

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Managing Your Operating Reserves During and After an Emergency

sgEngage

A strong operating reserve in a time of crisis helps everyone focus on helping the people who need to be helped. But its not a blank check either. If you expend all your operating reserves, you can put your organization in a pinch going forward. With the right policies and strategies in place, your nonprofit organization can draw from your operating reserves during and after an emergency without putting future operations at risk.

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The Everyday Donor: Unlocking Prospecting Segments Through Behavior Analysis

Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Corporate Brand

Do you really know your donors? Not just what they give, but who they are? 👥 In this interactive session, we’ll break down how nonprofits can use behavioral indicators (affinity, recency, frequency, and monetary value) to build prospecting segments that go beyond wealth screening and actually align with donor identity. You’ll walk away with practical strategies to move beyond basic demographics and cultivate supporters based on how they already engage with you!

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Top US Election Security Watchdog Forced to Stop Election Security Work

Wired

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has frozen efforts to aid states in securing elections, according to an internal memo viewed by WIRED.

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Elon Musk’s Toxicity Could Spell Disaster for Tesla

Wired

Staggering sales drops, swastika-daubed EVs, companies culling fleet models, and fan-forum owners selling their carsElon Musk's alt-right antics are seriously impacting his electric car business.

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Using AI to design proteins is now easy. Making enzymes remains hard.

Ars Technica

Enzyme mechanisms can be complex, and getting them to work is tricky. Enzymes are amazing catalysts.

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Elon Musk’s Man in the Treasury Is Still Holding Down His Day Job as Software CEO

Wired

An email sent to workers at the US Treasury Departments Bureau of the Fiscal Service said DOGEs Tom Krause is currently the CEO of the Cloud Software Group. Critics believe this could be a massive conflict of interest.

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Combine Grants and Capital Campaigns for a Perfect Partnership and Sustainable Revenue

NonProfit PRO

Grants and capital campaigns are often treated as separate fundraising strategies, but integrating them can create a force multiplier effect.

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Navigating Payroll Compliance: Future-Proofing Payroll in an Evolving Regulatory Landscape

Speaker: Jennifer Hill

Payroll compliance is a cornerstone of business success, yet for small and midsize businesses, it’s becoming increasingly challenging to navigate the ever-evolving landscape of federal, state, and local regulations. Mistakes can lead to costly penalties and operational disruptions, making it essential to adopt advanced solutions that ensure accuracy and efficiency.

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The DOGE Squad Is Squandering a Once-in-a-Lifetime Opportunity

Wired

Government tech experts say Elon Musks team could have seized the moment to make Washington work better.

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Tesla Installing Countermeasures as People Are Hacking the Cables Off Superchargers

Futurism

Active Defense Countermeasures Amid a spate of vandalism at Supercharger stations, Tesla appears to be employing countermeasures to head off the theft of its valuable copper charging cables. For years now , opportunists have targeted electric vehicle charging stations for the copper wiring that powers them, and more recently Tesla's physical locations have been targeted by a wave of anti-Elon Musk vandalism.

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No penalties even when deputies share a woman’s nudes after an illegal phone search

Ars Technica

In 2019, Haley Olson's life in Grant County, Oregon, was upended when people in town appeared to know about private nude photos that Olson kept on her phone. Worse, some of the people appeared to have seen and shared the photos. The incidents all had some relationship to the local sheriff's department, where Olson was dating one of the deputies. In July, for instance, a stranger in a sheriff's office uniform approached her to say that he had "heard theres some pretty smokin pictures of you going

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Evidence Is Growing That Ozempic Can Cause Blindness

Futurism

As drugs like Ozempic and Mounjaro continue to skyrocket in usage , doctors are encountering more cases linking them to severe eye conditions. Last year, Harvard scientists found a troubling link between semaglutide, the active ingredient in Ozempic, and a blindness-causing condition known as nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (NAION), which is essentially a stroke of the eye.

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Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide

Managing HR tasks like payroll, compliance, and employee data can overwhelm small businesses. That’s where a Human Capital Management (HCM) solution comes in. Our eBook, Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide , shows how an HCM system automates tedious processes, ensuring your business stays compliant and efficient. You’ll learn how to simplify payroll, eliminate costly errors, and empower your employees with self-service tools.

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‘Personalized, unrestricted’ AI lab Nous Research launches first toggle-on reasoning model: DeepHermes-3

VentureBeat

One DeepHermes-3 user reported a processing speed of 28.98 tokens per second on a MacBook Pro M4 Max consumer hardware.

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iOS 18.4 beta: 5 cool iPhone features that may be coming soon

Mashable Tech

Apple is set to launch a few new products next week. What are they? Well, no one knows for sure. There have been rumors of a new iPhone SE or perhaps something new for the Apple Vision Pro line. But we do know of one of Apple's anticipated releases: iOS 18.4 beta, which, according to Bloomberg 's Apple insider Mark Gurman, is set to roll out next week. iOS 18.4 beta is set to bring the iPhone some new features and capabilities.

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Man offers to buy city dump in last-ditch effort to recover $800M in bitcoins

Ars Technica

James Howells, the IT pro who lost about 8,000 bitcoins in a landfill more than a decade ago, thinks he has one last chance to dig up his buried treasure before it's lost forever. He wants to buy the landfill. In January, Howells lost a court battle with Newport City Council in Wales, which many expected would be his last shot at excavating the dump.

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Elon Musk's AI Company Just Sacked an Engineer for Posting About Its Upcoming AI Model

Futurism

Broke or Woke? An " anti-woke " AI company founded by chronic poster Elon Musk has forced one of its engineers to resign for, essentially, posting. That engineer, Benjamin De Kraker, said in a lengthy X post that he'd been told he needed to either delete a post ranking the still-unreleased model lower than OpenAI's offering for writing code or face termination.

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Best Practices to Streamline Compensation Management: A Foundation for Growth

Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson

Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.

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Rate your favorite smart home gear for a chance to win a $250 Amazon gift card

Mashable Tech

Take the smart home survey. Here at Mashable, we’re always trying out the latest tech products to help our readers determine whether or not they’re worth it. But now, we want to hear from you about the products you use and love. In our first edition of our Smartest Home Readers’ Choice Awards, we’re asking Mashable readers about the smart home devices you use in your home and daily life.

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SanDisk's new HBF memory combines 3D NAND capacity with HBM-like bandwidth

TechSpot

This hybrid creation stacks up a whopping 16 layers of SanDisk's latest 3D NAND dies using tiny data pipelines called through-silicon vias. There's also a special logic layer that can zip data in and out of the individual NAND sub-arrays in parallel. This results in HBF packing 8 to 16.

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NYT Connections hints today: Clues, answers for February 15, 2025

Mashable Tech

Connections is the one of the most popular New York Times word games that's captured the public's attention. The game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle , Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we've served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle.

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Nvidia confirms GeForce RTX 5070 Ti for February 20, beats 4080 Super in OpenCL benchmark

TechSpot

Nvidia has confirmed that the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti will launch on February 20, followed by the RTX 5070 on March 5. Although the specs for both GPUs seem underwhelming, a recent Geekbench leak suggests the 5070 Ti may perform better than expected.

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How to Scale Recurring Giving for Sustainable Growth

Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Corporate Brand

Is your organization ready to build a recurring giving program that not only sustains but also propels your mission forward? 🚀 In this new webinar with industry visionary Tim Sarrantonio, we’ll guide you through the critical steps to establishing and scaling a successful recurring giving program. Whether you’re starting fresh or enhancing an existing program, this session will provide the strategies you need to deepen donor relationships and secure long-term support!

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Jeep Drivers Bombarded With Ads for Extended Warranty on Their Center Console Displays

Futurism

The smartphone-ification of cars continues to unleash new horrors of tech-inflected capitalism. Just ask Jeep drivers, who are suffering through an extremely intrusive way the automaker is pestering them to buy an extended warranty: pop-up ads that take up the entire infotainment screen of their vehicles, our sister site The Drive reports. In a post on the r/assholedesign subreddit last week, the owner of a 2022 Grand Cherokee complained about the intrusion , claiming the ads returned every time

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Meta is reportedly working on humanoid robots that help with chores

Engadget

If you look at your Roomba with disgust, thinking about what a far cry it is from the Jetsons Rosey the Robot, help is on the way. Bloomberg reported on Friday that Meta plans to leverage its advances in AI and augmented reality to build a platform for futuristic humanoid robots that can help with household chores like folding laundry. Meta is reportedly creating a new team within its Reality Labs hardware division , which handles Quest VR headsets and the long-term Orion AR glasses project.

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The games industry’s growth potential is shrinking | MIDiA

VentureBeat

The games industry's days of double-digit growth are behind it, according to MIDiA's sobering new Global Forecast report for 2025.

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T-Shirt Fundraising: A New Take on Crowdfunding

NonProfit Hub

Crowdfunding with T-Shirt Fundraisers: 4 Common Questions Crowdfunding campaigns bring your community together to fund one major project, program, or event. With hundreds of individual donors pitching in, you can create something bigger than any one average supporter would be able to fund on their own. While being a part of an inspiring crowdfundraiser might be its own reward, you can bring even more supporters on board by offering them something in exchange for their support.

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Empower Your Nonprofit With Effective Payroll & HCM Services

Managing a nonprofit involves many challenges, but payroll and HR shouldn’t be among them. Our guide, "A Buyer’s Guide to Payroll & HCM Services," helps nonprofits choose the best provider. Efficient payroll services ensure timely, accurate payments, vital for maintaining staff and volunteer morale. Compliance support helps navigate complex labor laws and avoid costly fines.