The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Hungary and Iran. There is an increasing amount of public data telling us stories about the communities in which we live and work. Democratic backsliding and restrictive laws will pose challenges to nonprofits operations and the safety of their beneficiaries. We see restrictions playing out in Paraguay and the United States.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Importantly, the public was never in danger.” Although no one was injured, the incident is a disturbing example of hackers taking aim at public infrastructure with unclear intentions. Hackers tried to increase the amount of lye in the water supply. Other nearby cities and towns have also been alerted to the potential threat.

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The Verge

JULY 16, 2020

“We have always supported the academia and pharma industry, both public and private sector organisations, and we have been clear that this work is our top priority at present,” an NCSC spokesperson said in an email to The Verge. According to an NCSC report , APT29 uses “a variety of tools and techniques” in its hacking operation.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

public exits per year; by 2019, even Iran had more listed companies than Brazil. In prior roles, he was an associate at a LatAm-focused venture capital firm and worked in corporate venture with regional banks and the Brazilian stock exchange. In the past six years there were only 21 IPOs — an average of just 3.5

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The Verge

JULY 9, 2021

While DeepGlint has been accepted for a public offering on Shanghai’s STAR stock exchange, the firm hasn’t seen the commercial success of other AI startups in the country, explained Jeffrey Ding in his ChinAI newsletter last month. Bill Gates also referred to the startup as “very cool” in 2014.

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 29, 2022

Connected to a free public WiFi network? Initially used exclusively by businesses, subscription-based VPN services for the general public starting gaining popularity about a decade ago "after a flood of security breaches," per the cybersecurity and antivirus giant Kapersky. Note: All pricing was accurate at the time of publication.)

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

“Since we began tracking government-initiated internet shutdowns, their use has proliferated at a truly alarming pace,” Access Now’s Felicia Anthonio, campaigner and #KeepItOn lead, said in a report on the issue in The Current , a publication of Google’s internet thinktank Jigsaw. “As

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The Verge

JUNE 23, 2021

It’s hard to tie that directly to China’s actions, especially given other factors like Elon Musk and NFTs, but publications like The Wall Street Journal have been discussing it as a factor. The president of a Hong Kong mining pool told CNBC that it doesn’t “want to face every single year, some sort of new ban coming in China.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

While some have a Utopian vision of the Internet as the Great Integrator, or Ultimate Public Space, boyd cautioned against this naïve illusion and pushes us to work harder to cross the digital divide. (My My teammate and fellow attendee Jake Samuelson has more on boyd’s talk in the following post.). .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

For now, it seems, the government will delay the controversial measure for several weeks, especially now as a series of public and religious holidays come up. Netanyahu has claimed reforms are necessary because the judiciary — which is, technically speaking, unelected — has too much control over public policy.

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Care2

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Women in Iran and protestors on Wall Street think so. During the Iran protests in February of 2011, a woman who was raped, sexually assaulted and beaten once she was identified as a "rioter" simply for voting, had no voice and little way to speak out about her experience. Social media may be changing that across the globe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

I want you, whether you’re in the Congo or Darfur or if you’re in Iran or if you’re in Tanzania, Kosovo…you shoot that story like it’s your mother, your brother, your sister, your father and your cousin and you tell that in that way because that’s actually the road, I think, to not only clarity and truth and understanding. CHRISTOPHER R.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

is in conflict with (currently, Iran). Elsewhere engages artists in residence who reinterpret elements of the thrift store into new works, which are then shared with the public. The Waffle Shop team also run other projects out of the space, including the Conflict Kitchen --a take-out place that serves food from countries that the U.S.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

based founders, 35 were white American; four were white immigrant/first generation, from France, Ukraine, Russia and Iran; and four were Indian immigrant/first generation. All of the 40 companies’ 92 founders were male. Of the 43 U.S.-based Of the 19 Western Europe/Israel-based founders, all were white.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 29, 2016

The Challenge is open to all nonprofits and public libraries in the world that have received Symantec product donation(s) and are currently using the product. (a) This Challenge is void in Cuba, Iran, Myanmar, North Korea, Sudan, Syria, and all countries under sanction by the U.S. Eligibility. a) Nondiscrimination. a) In General.

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NTEN

JULY 18, 2013

Born in Iran and at age 3 moved to Canada; now in NYC. "I AA: If you''re sitting in a board room and people on your team aren''t excited, please know that the public won''t find it exciting. Connecting with Millennials Youngest female B-Corp founder: How Azita got here Starting Lovesocial was an accident.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

In addition to Syria and Iraq, these are Bulgaria, Greece, Georgia, Armenia, Iran, and the Azerbaijani exclave: Nakhchivan. (If Image 2 : Wikimedia / Public Domain. If you knew all eight, go buy yourself a cookie!). …" To our partners in Turkey, welcome aboard, and we're excited to see you change the world!

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Forum One

MAY 27, 2009

Read More » Online Approaches for Inviting and Collecting Public Input Joe Pringle in Influence 4 Jun 2010 I was invited to present last week at the University of Marylands Human Computer Interaction Labs workshop on Government and Social Media.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 15, 2017

This Sweepstakes is void for organizations in Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria ("U.S. As part of the prize notification, the winning individual or group will be asked to sign an affidavit of eligibility, a liability release, and a publicity release (where legal). Embargo Countries").

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

That ethos continued until the last three years or so with issues in Burma, Iran, and China. In Iran we’ve seen it used to get out information and resist censorship but have also seen it used by the government to alter a mobile phone system and monitoring calls. Technology is amoral – it doesn’t care.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 17, 2010

They revealed the culpability of powerful people who never expected that these records would ever be exposed to public scrutiny - let alone scientific analysis. The past year of research by HRDAG analysts has supported key criminal prosecutions and uncovered the truth about political violence in Guatemala, Iran, Colombia, Chad and Liberia.

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The Verge

JUNE 3, 2020

Rahman notes that other big cities had similar trials without similar outbreaks, while Iran, which also had an early outbreak of COVID-19, doesn’t have 5G networks at all.). The 5G conspiracy paves over this with a simple narrative of harmful technology forced on the public by an uncaring elite. Photo by James Vincent / The Verge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

His post was aimed at not-for-profit public media; I have genericized it somewhat ). Because using story well is our great chance in public media to be the leaders of our time. A Tweet this week on Iran and on the conventional news coverage there. Leaders strive to change the way that other people think, feel and act”. .

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 13, 2009

This is our own form of public diplomacy, where women are reaching out to each other despite all of their boundaries, or their differences, or whatever, and looking at their connections and similarities. I grew up in Iraq during Saddam's time, and during the time in which we had the war with Iran. You get her picture.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 18, 2021

” Rebecca sat down with the company’s CEO to discuss his motivation to make “something that is useful to the general public.” Dear Sophie, My co-founders and I launched a software startup in Iran a few years ago, and I’m happy to say it’s now thriving. Find a middle path, or rather, a bike path.”

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 12, 2015

In 2013, he publically confronted Iran's foreign minister, Mohamed Zarif, in New York demanding the release of political prisoner Majid Tavakoli. It caused a social media furor, and the Iranian government released Tavakoli for a time.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Germany, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, and Italy were placed in tier one. They highlight the degree to which Facebook employees are aware of the gaps in their knowledge about issues in the public interest, and their efforts to learn more. Facebook set up “war rooms” to monitor the network continuously.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

I covered the war between Iraq and Iran. As a professor of cultural engagement and public diplomacy , I have watched and studied how compassion can help build and strengthen civil society. A higher-scoring community performs better when it comes to things like public housing and mental health resources, for example.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2020

On Wednesday night, Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe blamed Iran for an email operation designed to intimidate voters in Florida into voting for President Trump “or else.” Google security researchers also linked the campaign to Iran, which denied claims of its involvement.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 8, 2025

The EPA sets the maximum level allowed in public water systems. The addition of low levels of fluoride to drinking water was long considered one of the greatest public health achievements of the last century. Nearly two-thirds of the U.S. population gets fluoridated drinking water , according to CDC data.

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The AI Alignment Forum

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

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. But in late 2025, OpenEye is ready for a public release. So while U2.5

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Futurism

MARCH 2, 2025

Being alleged cybercriminals, the named defendants go by nicknames that sound straight out of an early-2000s hacker flick: there's Arian Yadegarnia aka "Fiz" of Iran; Alan Krysiak aka "Drago" of the United Kingdom; Ricky Yuen aka "cg-dot" of Hong Kong; and Pht Phng Tn aka "Asakuri" of Vietnam.

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The Verge

MAY 29, 2020

The senator has sent a letter to the Justice Department calling for Twitter to be investigated for violating ongoing sanctions against the nation of Iran, as first reported by Axios. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is calling for a federal investigation into the company on unrelated grounds.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

After all, it was the aftermath of Trump’s election win that reshaped public opinion about tech platforms , drew broad regulatory scrutiny around the world, and spurred the companies to reshape their policy and content moderation efforts. We cannot say this time that Russia, Iran or China interfered in a significant way.

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2020

Today in news that could change public perception of the big tech companies. The agency has used this authority to conduct a series of covert cyber operations against Iran and other targets. Israeli 2009 Stuxnet attack , which destroyed centrifuges that Iran used to enrich uranium gas for its nuclear program.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 4, 2025

Public reporting suggests that your removal of these officials was driven by a fringe social media personality, which represents a deeply troubling breach of the norms that safeguard our national security apparatus from political pressure and conspiracy theories, Himes, D-Conn., Another Democrat, Sen.

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The Verge

JULY 27, 2021

And there’s lots of other big publications in the center of that ecosystem. I did this for 15 years, was the editor in chief of this trade publication called The Hotline. I have interviewed the president of Iran. There are some folks in our ecosystem who it feels like sometimes, their job is to carry water for Apple.

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