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

Here’s the relevant part of the EU’s statement: During a close to 8-hour long trilogue (three-way talks between Parliament, Council and Commission), EU lawmakers agreed that the largest messaging services (such as Whatsapp, Facebook Messenger or iMessage) will have to open up and interoperate with smaller messaging platforms, if they so request.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Photo from Kate in Flickr Social Signal Open House in TechSoup Office last week I'm playing catch up here on a bunch of Second Life stuff happening over the past week that I didn't want to let slip through my fingers: Social Signal held an open house in Second Life to welcome their new virtual worlds manager, Catherine Winters , to Social Signal.

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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

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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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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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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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. m open to any suggestions about what I should be reading! Susie has a great sense of humor.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

JANUARY 30, 2025

DeepSeek-R1 is an open model with state-of-the-art reasoning capabilities. DeepSeek-R1 is a perfect example of this scaling law, demonstrating why accelerated computing is critical for the demands of agentic AI inference. DeepSeek-R1 a Perfect Example of Test-Time Scaling DeepSeek-R1 is a large mixture-of-experts (MoE) model.

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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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Image Credits: Charles Taylor / EyeEm (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. 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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The Verge

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The company is seeking a jury trial and unspecified monetary damages: “This lawsuit seeks to open the markets for iOS app distribution and iOS app payment processing to those who wish to compete fairly with Apple, and to recover the enormous damages Apple caused.”.

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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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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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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 13, 2012

The Seven Benetech Truths: Social Change Through Technology We Get Stuff Done Right Stuff Right Open Over Proprietary Partnership Over Going Alone Value Flexibility Personal and Professional Development Social Change Through Technology Benetech is about social change first and foremost. Respecting the law. We value transparency.

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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

APRIL 16, 2022

In his opening salvo, Musk claims his bid to buy Twitter is exactly that. 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.

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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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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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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Delivering my opening remarks at the Martus'' 10th Anniversary A decade later, in 2003, Benetech —the nonprofit tech company I founded and lead—launched our Human Rights Program to address this very question. The moderator was Stephan Sonnenberg , Clinical Supervising Attorney and Lecturer in Law at the Stanford Law School.

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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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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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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

DECEMBER 30, 2022

We’re talking about the open standards-based comms protocol called Matrix that Paul went deep on. Alt-ChatGPT : In the wake of the response to OpenAI’s ChatGPT comes an open source equivalent. Image Credits: syolacan (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. Bye for now, folks. Safe and Happy New Year to you all.

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NTEN

MARCH 2, 2011

GanttProject is an open source, cross-platform project management tool. Worthy alternatives (and superior, because they're multi-user): Sharepoint or Open Atrium. Peter Campbell is currently the Director of Information Technology at Earthjustice, a non-profit law firm dedicated to defending the earth.

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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. To use Guided Access, open the app you would like to use. Encrypt your device. The iOS feature is called Guided Access.

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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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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. And it lets users hot-swap new sources on the fly.

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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. . Image Credits: Bootstrapp (opens in a new window).

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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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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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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

of its global workforce, but an eye-opening figure nonetheless. Do Kwon in custody : It looks like law enforcement caught up with Terra creator Do Kwon, who was reportedly arrested at the Montenegro airport, Jacquelyn writes. Despite saying he was cooperating with law enforcement, Kwon’s whereabouts have been unknown since September.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Haje was mildly surprised and pretty excited after reading Paul ’s story about his favorite podcasting app Pocket Casts going open source. To wit: WordPress is among the top open source projects on the planet. million, Natasha L reports.

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