Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

We’re against piracy, and have made commitments to authors and publishers to encourage compliance with copyright law. Yet another example of bills written to catch criminals, that do very little to stop them, but end up screwing up law-abiding organizations. Unfortunately, that’s not the case. Endangering Human Rights Activists.

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VisionLink

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

As the project manager for Crisis Cleanup , an open source collaborative work order management platform, Aaron has helped connect more than 230 organizations and 40,000 volunteers to more than 11,000 families needing assistance after 15 disasters in four countries, producing an astonishing $26 million in value for disaster survivors.

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The Verge

MARCH 24, 2022

While the law isn’t passed yet, the language the EU’s referring to could compel companies like Apple and Meta to open up systems that they formerly controlled completely. Meta has integrated some of its messaging systems together already, and Apple pitched a more open version of iMessage to carriers many years ago.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

It's an open-source platform with end-to-end encryption so that you can trust your files will remain safe and private. Internxt also has an open-source policy. They're also GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) compliant, which means they adhere to strict European laws that protect user privacy and data security.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

GitHub has reinstated an open-source tool for downloading YouTube videos, and it’s changed its policies to make similar copyright-related takedowns less likely. We still must work within the boundaries of the law.”. Photo: GitHub. GitHub found these arguments compelling.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 28, 2012

For example, there are many just in the area of open source foundations: nonprofit organizations structured as social enterprises writing open source software for the benefit of society, with many examples in each of the five claimed areas. The application is against the public interest.

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The Verge

AUGUST 10, 2021

Chinese tech giant Xiaomi has unveiled a quadrupedal robot named CyberDog: an experimental, open-source machine that the firm says “holds unforetold possibilities.”. It’s also been tested by both law enforcement and the military , though not as a weapon. Xiaomi says CyberDog has a “pet-like nature”.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 20, 2006

This is a musing on the current state of the Gnu Public License, which governs a preponderance of open-source software projects. But first, let's talk about what open-source means for a minute. This is what has permitted such widespread commercial adoption of the open source idea.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 1, 2014

However, we have yet to come to grips with what is ethical and what the laws should be in relation to rapidly changing technologies. This post originally appeared on the blog of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers'' (IEEE) Society on Social Implications of Technology (SSIT).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Father and daughter have been co-teaching a Harvard Law School course in Second Life this past semester, called CyberOne: Law in the Court of Public Opnion. We will try the case twice in our courtroom, once under the Second Life Terms of Service Agreement and once at common law. See Allan's comment and read Ethan's post.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Hello to compensation : Uber’s food delivery business settled with over 4,000 dismissed couriers in Spain and agreed to pay severance to those let go ahead of the country’s labor reform law, Natasha L reports.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

JANUARY 30, 2025

DeepSeek-R1 is a perfect example of this scaling law, demonstrating why accelerated computing is critical for the demands of agentic AI inference. It incorporates an impressive 671 billion parameters 10x more than many other popular open-source LLMs supporting a large input context length of 128,000 tokens.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Her blog, Susie's Blog - Winning hearts and minds over to FOSS (Free Open Source Software) is an excellent example of how professionals in the nonprofit technology field use blogging for professional development. Susie has a great sense of humor. It started in 1988 with two part time staff (who still run it) and a ??30,000

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

The architecture of law creates conditions for innovation and can also chill it. Their open source activity alone contributes more than $100 billion to the U.S. Nearly all software — 97% — contains open source components, which are often developed and maintained on GitHub. economy annually.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 10, 2020

A 2019 study from antivirus company Norton found that Apple’s stringent controls over what apps are allowed into the App Store made iOS devices somewhat more secure than those running the more popular open-source Android operating system. However, the US Copyright Office has established that iPhone jailbreaking is not illegal.

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Bret Taylor, Chair, on behalf of OpenAI Newsroom (@OpenAINewsroom) February 14, 2025 "Its time for OpenAI to return to the open-source, safety-focused force for good it once was," Musk said in a statement his attorney shared with The Journal. "We We will make sure that happens."

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2023

federal department and its many law enforcement units, which said that the agencies often used cell-site simulators without obtaining the appropriate search warrants. But is it possible for a smaller open source project to find its way into this land of commercial opportunity?

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The Verge

APRIL 30, 2021

I’ve spent the past week digging into this world — the players, the jargon, the university’s turbulent history with open-source software, the devoted and principled Linux kernel community. The kernel is open-source, meaning its millions of lines of code are publicly available for anyone to view and contribute to.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2023

Key legal issues for influencers and brands (and how to deal with them) Image Credits: SomeMeans (opens in a new window) / Getty Images No one needs a mega-influencer like Serena Williams or a Kardashian to build buzz for their startup — an evangelist with just a few thousand followers can push qualified customers into your product funnel.

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The Verge

MARCH 1, 2022

Hacking group Lapsus$ has claimed responsibility for the attack, and has demanded that Nvidia make its drivers open-source if it doesn’t want more data leaked. We request that NVIDIA commits to COMPLETELY OPEN-SOURCE (and distribute under a foss license) their GPU drivers”.

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The Verge

APRIL 16, 2022

These include an edit feature, an open-source algorithm, less moderation, and a higher bar for removing offending tweets. He views Twitter as the “de facto town square” and wants to open source the social media company’s algorithm. Musk isn’t trying to buy Twitter to make money, in case you were wondering.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

A free, open source software application that allows users anywhere in the world to securely gather and organize information about human rights violations, Martus enables human rights defenders on the front lines of fighting abuse to stay safe and protects the identities of those who would face violence and repression for telling their stories.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

Of course, there are huge privacy issues, here, and one law professor thinks the ads are illegal. Also, if a friend agrees, their activities around a particular product (like, say, a movie rental) will show up on their news feeds. What does this mean for nonprofits? Well, it depends. Will this advertising platform alienate users? Be Helpful.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Dries Buytaert is the co-founder and CTO and Acquia , a venture-backed software company that offers products and services for open source content management system Drupal. Europe needs to roll out unified labor laws that are competitive globally and unified across Europe.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

Privado’s Series A will enable it to grow its tech, increase its team to 25 people and grow its open source community. Privado is now expanding it into an open source privacy code canning project. “We Together Fund and Emergent Fund, which led Privado’s seed round of $3.5

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 13, 2012

Respecting the law. Open Over Proprietary We’re an open source organization. Not only do we write open source software, but the content we create is almost always available under Creative Commons licenses. Get the accounting done to the highest standard. Avoiding conflicts of interest.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

We’re deep believers in the benefits of openness, which means we publish open source software and create open content under Creative Commons licenses. Right now, we have multiple law school clinics that would love to tackle new projects with us, projects we actually have but lack the bandwidth to pursue.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Prediction: The side that wins the metaphor battle will win the case,” tweeted University of Oklahoma College of Law professor Sarah Burstein. Tiffany Li, a fellow at Yale Law School’s Information Society Project, cautioned against reading too much into the proceedings. The reliance on familiar analogies wasn’t necessarily surprising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2011

We’re against piracy, and have made commitments to authors and publishers to encourage compliance with copyright law. Yet another example of bills written to catch criminals, that do very little to stop them, but end up screwing up law-abiding organizations. Unfortunately, that’s not the case. Endangering Human Rights Activists.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Although the core of Android is open-source, manufacturers have to sign an AFA to get benefits like early access to the operating system as well as access to the Google Play Store, an essential part of the Android experience for most smartphone users, CNBC notes.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Alt-ChatGPT : In the wake of the response to OpenAI’s ChatGPT comes an open source equivalent. Zack and Carly took a look back at how law enforcement cracked down on cybercriminals this year. For the fusion : Tim took a look at five startups primed to benefit from the recent breakthroughs in fusion. [TC+].

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NTEN

MARCH 2, 2011

GanttProject is an open source, cross-platform project management tool. Peter Campbell is currently the Director of Information Technology at Earthjustice, a non-profit law firm dedicated to defending the earth. Think of it as MS Project lite.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Judges hear and decide cases based on their general understanding of the law. Sometimes a case — like a malpractice suit or a labor dispute — requires special expertise, so judges send court clerks to a law library, looking for precedents and specific cases they can cite.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2020

An example use-case it gives is for law enforcement to anonymize bodycam footage so it can be repurposed for training videos or prepared for submitting as evidence. This product, Secure Redact, offers privacy-focused content moderation tools — enabling its users to find and redact personal data in visual content.

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The Verge

JUNE 4, 2020

These methods make it easier for someone else to get into your phone, especially if you’re there, and law enforcement can legally force people to unlock their phones using their fingerprint or facial recognition. It’s a good idea to change the settings on your phone so that you can’t unlock it using your fingerprint or facial recognition.

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The Verge

MARCH 4, 2022

Shortly after discovering the incident, we further hardened our network, engaged cybersecurity incident response experts, and notified law enforcement. Here is all that Nvidia is actually saying today, via spokesperson Hector Marinez: On February 23, 2022, NVIDIA became aware of a cybersecurity incident which impacted IT resources.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2021

For example, Bigfoot Capital open-sourced its RBI model, outlining it in a blog post and sharing their RBI financial model and anonymized term sheet , but a thorough, quantitative, industry-wide analysis has not been conducted until now. . Thankfully, there have been some notable efforts to drive transparency in the RBI market.

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