The Verge

MARCH 7, 2021

Four online publications linked to Russian intelligence agencies have been spreading false or misleading information about coronavirus vaccines, The Wall Street Journal reported , citing an official at the US Department of State’s Global Engagement Center. A spokesperson for the Kremlin denied the allegations to the WSJ.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

In the wake of last weeks news regarding the Office of Management and Budget memorandum instructing federal agencies to temporarily pause all activities related to obligations or disbursement of all Federal financial assistance, many of us are trying to understand the potential impact of a freeze on federal funding on the nonprofit sector.

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The Verge

JULY 28, 2020

With the arrival of the pandemic, we need to understand how face recognition technology deals with masked faces,” said Mei Ngan, an author of the report and NIST computer scientist. “We Notably, NIST’s report only tested a type of facial recognition known as one-to-one matching. This matches reports we’ve heard from inside government.

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Futurism

MARCH 24, 2025

Mass layoffs , including the resignations of most of its governing board , have left the company in tatters. 23andMe maintains that everything is fine, promising that there will be no changes to how it manages and protects people's data, as CBS News reports.

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Blue Avocado

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Recent news reports suggest that the average global temperature may rise more than 1.5 Some scholars are beginning to suspect that this is in part a measurement error : More gifts today are not reported in IRS data, studies are not considering other forms of giving, from GoFundMe to the dollar you might tack onto your bill at CVS.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

If you’re a nonprofit or local government agency or work alongside them, there is a good chance you have seen an uptick in funding possibilities within your field. COVID-19 took the world by surprise, and along with it came a government response with unprecedented spending and a massive increase in grant funding.

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The Verge

AUGUST 17, 2020

Google has published an open letter about a newly proposed government regulation that would compel it to pay media outlets for news content. Australia’s consumer watchdog pushed back , saying the letter “contains misinformation,” adding that “a healthy news media sector is essential to a well-functioning democracy.”.

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The Verge

AUGUST 4, 2020

Fitness brand Garmin paid millions of dollars in ransom after an attack took many of its products and services offline last month, Sky News reports. BleepingComputer reported last week that Garmin had received a decryption key to access data encrypted by the virus, and that the initial ransom demand was for $10 million.

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Futurism

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Russia's space chief Yuri Borisov has been replaced by former Roscosmos staffer and former deputy minister of transport Dmitry Bakanov, Ars Technica reports. The news comes less than three years after Dmitry Rogozin, Russia's former highly abrasive and unpredictable space head, was replaced by Borisov.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Press Forward seeks to reverse the dramatic decline in local news that has coincided with an increasingly divided America and weakening trust in institutions. Around 2,200 local newspapers have closed since 2005, resulting in 20 percent of Americans living in “news deserts” with little to no reliable coverage of important local events.

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Charity Village

MAY 24, 2024

Food Banks Canada released the 2024 Poverty Report Cards, which provide an overview of how well poverty reduction efforts are trending at the provincial, territorial, and federal government levels. The Report Cards explore poverty across Canada and highlight areas of improvement for social policy.

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The Verge

MAY 23, 2021

India’s government has sent notices to social media platforms ordering them to take down content that refers to an “Indian variant” of the COVID-19 virus, Reuters reported. The letter from the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology sent Friday was not made public, but was viewed by several news outlets.

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Gyrus

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Easy Compliance Automates tracking, reporting, and audit readiness. Future-Ready AI, VR, and analytics enhance government training. Why Government Agencies Are Adopting LMS Technology 1. Personalized Learning Adapts training to roles and performance. Mobile Access Enables flexible, on-the-go learning. Request a Demo 2.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

One demographic that seems particularly susceptible to sports betting addiction, according to the Intuit Credit Karma study, is Gen Z37% of whom reported being addicted. Thats 14% more than the number of respondents across all age demographics claiming to be addicts. Not many guardrails exist to keep sports bettors from hitting bottom.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

A defining feature of a cryptocurrency, and arguably its most endearing allure, is its organic nature; it is not issued by any central authority, rendering it theoretically immune to government interference or manipulation. Charity Digital News: Artificial Intelligence: The Future of the Charity Sector. – Investopedia.

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The Verge

MARCH 4, 2022

Russia’s lower house of parliament has passed a law punishing “fake news” with up to 15 years in prison, according to Reuters. Courts would mete out the harshest sentences for fake news that leads to “serious consequences.”. The rule must still pass the upper house of parliament and be signed by President Vladimir Putin.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Must-Read: Millennial Impact Report. Must-Read: Diversity in Giving Report. 67% of internet users live in countries where criticism of the government, military, or ruling family are subject to censorship. Live Reporting Using Social Media. 2017 Global Trends in Giving Report. The white population in the U.S.

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TechNode

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Chinese blogger This is Jinshan (, our translation) on Wednesday shared online a post initially published last November by Shanghais Jinshan district government. Toyotas new factory is said to be minutes away from a railway station in Jinshan, the district branding itself as Shanghais Bay Area.

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The Verge

JANUARY 31, 2022

LGBTQ dating app Grindr has been removed from the Apple App Store in China, and is also unavailable on popular Android app marketplaces, Bloomberg reports. While homosexuality isn’t illegal in China, observers have noted that government policies have been increasingly intolerant , and Beijing censors have taken issue with gay themes in media.

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The Verge

APRIL 24, 2021

Twitter has removed more than 50 tweets critical of the Indian government’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, and did so at the request of the Indian government. It isn’t the first time that Twitter has bowed to pressure from the Indian government. Jose (@vinodjose) February 1, 2021. Less than 1.5

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The Verge

JANUARY 2, 2021

The Russia-linked SolarWinds hack which targeted US government agencies and private corporations may be even worse than officials first realized, with some 250 federal agencies and business now believed affected, the New York Times reported. It’s clear the United States government missed it.”.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The companys stock price (NYSE: UNH) plummeted in early trading this morning after a new report alleged that the private insurance provider is facing a probe from the U.S. The report states that the investigation is a civil fraud case and not a criminal one. Fast Company reached out to the DOJ for comment.

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The Verge

JUNE 5, 2021

The subpoena is also contrary to the Justice Department’s own guidelines concerning the narrow circumstances in which subpoenas can be issued to the news media,” USA Today publisher Maribel Perez Wadsworth said in a statement emailed to The Verge.

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The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

According to new data from National Center for Family Philanthropy (NCFP), in collaboration with and support from Bank of America, the number of funders with annual grantmaking greater than or equal to $1 million has grown from 23% to 36% during the past decade. It’s not all great news.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2023

And in a breaking development, Sky News reported that The Bank of London (TBOL) (a clearing bank) is allegedly looking at a rescue bid for SVB UK. Word spread like wildfire across UK tech WhatsApp groups, as SVB UK account holders moved to withdraw their cash from Thursday night onwards, following the news in the US.

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TechNode

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Chinese tech giant Baidu is considering deploying its autonomous ride-hailing service in the United Arab Emirates and has been in discussions with the local government, people with knowledge of the matter told the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday. Wall Street Journal, TechNode reporting]

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The Verge

MARCH 7, 2022

Amazon is allegedly employing suppliers in China with links to forced labor, according to a report from the Tech Transparency Project (TTP), a research group owned by the nonprofit watchdog organization Campaign for Accountability (via NBC News ). Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Katie Farkas, View Arts Center Expiry Dates Can Be a Retention Touchpoint “We run a report at the beginning of each month of credit cards that are expiring so donors can get a personal call, thank you, and ask for a new card. Government or corporate grants are usually the easiest way to generate revenue.”—

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Sam Bankman-Fried has been arrested by The Royal Bahamas Police Force following reports that the United States filed criminal charges against the founder and former CEO of cryptocurrency exchange FTX , and is likely to request his extradition. Government, based on a sealed indictment filed by the SDNY.”

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The Verge

DECEMBER 29, 2020

A major Chinese supplier of consumer electronics components, Lens Technology, has been accused of using forced Uighur labor workers from the predominantly Muslim region of Xinjiang, China, according to a report from the Tech Transparency Project (TTP) shared with The Verge. The Washington Post first reported TTP’s findings on Tuesday.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The UK government is banning the installation of new Huawei 5G equipment from September 2021 as part of its plans to phase out the Chinese firm’s technology by 2027, The Financial Times reports. The Financial Times reports that some companies have been stockpiling this equipment since summer.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2021

This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest private market news, talks about the coming week, digs into some recent funding rounds and mulls over a larger theme or narrative from the private markets. Now, the news: Microsoft is said to be hunting up the purchase of RiskIQ , a cybersecurity firm.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 1, 2020

The blog marks the first time Amazon has disclosed how many of its workers have contracted COVID-19, and comes after months of demands for increased transparency from workers , governments , and Amazon investors. The company didn’t discuss those deaths in today’s blog post.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

Late last month, Artifact , a personalized news reader built by Instagram’s co-founders, opened to the public. The launch was a surprise to many consumers, who wondered why the team behind one of the world’s most iconic social apps would return to startups to focus on one of the toughest areas instead: news.

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The Verge

AUGUST 14, 2020

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) signed a contract with facial recognition company Clearview AI this week for “mission support,” government contracting records show (as first spotted by the tech accountability nonprofit Tech Inquiry ). However, the ICE contract would appear to comply with Clearview’s earlier pledge.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2023

On with the news! Twitter is rolling out some new features for Blue subscribers, including one that will show 50% of the ads in their timeline compared to what nonpaid users see, Ivan reports. That now includes cracking down on online betting games, Manish reports. Christine The TechCrunch Top 3 Only half? Carly has more.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2023

GoMechanic was in talks early last year to raise a round of funding led by Tiger Global at over $1 billion valuation, TechCrunch reported earlier. Zilingo, BharatPe and Trell, three other Sequoia India-backed startup, have had governance and auditing issues in the past one year. Data: Tracxn).

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