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The problem with Employee Appreciation Day

Fast Company Tech

Call out those who took the time to share knowledge, advocate for a colleagues ideas, or create a positive team environment. For example, instead of only celebrating the top performer in a department, recognize the team member who made sure everyone was set up for success.

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5 Cybersecurity Best Practices for Your Nonprofit

Nonprofit Tech for Good

If your website has been taken offline or your data compromised in a cyberattack, you are going to need fast-responding, knowledgeable customer service. It was just a matter of time until a problem would arise. Customer service can be unreliable and slow to respond.

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4 Ways Nonprofits Can Beat AI Blandification

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Generative AI is like a ginormous digital Encyclopedia Britannica that compiles the internets knowledge base and immediately plops it on a screen. Thats the problem. Generative AI helps imagine what could be. It is essentially a vast rearview mirror.

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OpenAI's Hot New AI Has an Embarrassing Problem

Futurism

Its o4-mini scored an abysmal hallucination rate of 48 percent, part of which could be due to it being a smaller model that has "less world knowledge" and therefore tends to "hallucinate more," according to OpenAI. That's roughly double the rate compared to the company's preceding reasoning models.

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Young Coders Are Using AI for Everything, Giving "Blank Stares" When Asked How Programs Actually Work

Futurism

The foundational knowledge that used to come from struggling through problems is just missing," he added. But if AI just gives the right answer, it isn't forcing newcomers to synthesize different possibilities and really grapple with thinking through the problem. Crickets,"he wrote. Ask about edge cases? Blank stares." "The

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How to Lead with Courage: A Conversation with Satonya Fair

sgEngage

The problems you are trying to solve are complex and the potential organizations you can support are many. Failures almost always come with knowledge. Dont hoard your knowledge. Develop Radical Partnerships Leading with courage means recognizing that you cant solve the big, complex problems on your own.

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Matter Labs scores $50M from a16z to bring zero-knowledge rollup scaling to Ethereum

TechCrunch

Ethereum’s insufficient network volume limits have led to slow transactions and prohibitively pricey fees, but it’s a familiar problem for longtime developers in the ecosystem. What is new is the wider availability of so-called Ethereum “rollup” scaling solutions.

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