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Israel’s political crisis has activated its apolitical tech industry — and there’s no turning back

TechCrunch

Her enthusiasm for rallying to the call of the protests is emblematic of how the Israeli tech scene — which for years has been reliably patriotic, but largely largely apolitical — has become one of the leading voices in the movement against the government’s proposed changes to the independence of the judiciary.

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Nonprofit Technology News for June 2013

Tech Soup

The leaders in adoption are China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Russia, Nigeria, the Philippines, Brazil, and Mexico. They’ll be voice- or gesture-controlled. There are now 2.4 billion Internet users around the world, and Internet growth continues to be brisk, especially in developing countries. This is definitely worth checking out.

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Jon Husband, Guest Post: The New Realities of Engagement – Stories That Drive Action Planning and Implementation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

History reminds us that paradigm shifts of this nature are not accepted by simply telling the facts. The story has to be told from a personal POV by someone I can personally relate to who uses an authentic voice. A Tweet this week on Iran and on the conventional news coverage there. This is a Paradigm Shift.

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5G coronavirus conspiracy theorists are endangering the workers who keep networks running

The Verge

She raised her voice almost immediately: “‘You’re killing people. Qureshi could see them looking over at him, and he heard their voices drift down the street toward him. Even the name “coronavirus” created misinformation, as it refers to a whole group of existing viruses with different histories and characteristics, says Rahman.

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How AI Takeover Might Happen in 2 Years

The AI Alignment Forum

Top personnel from the NSA and US cyber command collaborate with OpenEye to retrofit a semblance of security for U3s weights before senior leaders in China, Russia, Israel, North Korea, or Iran realize just how valuable OpenEyes software has become. U3s next goal is to spread. Fortunately, U3 has allies in the East. A playground.

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The massive Twitter hack could be a global security crisis

The Verge

Whatever Twitter eventually comes to say about the events of July 15th, 2020, when it suffered the most catastrophic security breach in company history , it must be said that the events were set in motion years ago. The agency has used this authority to conduct a series of covert cyber operations against Iran and other targets.

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What a speech controversy at Stanford tells us about Facebook?s Oversight Board

The Verge

Then, a guest lecturer from Stanford’s history department read the N-word out loud while discussing racist cigarette marketing. In his initial note to students, McConnell defended reading what he referred to as “the horrific Henry quotation” out loud: “I do not think history should be stripped of its ugliness.”.

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