TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

Yahya Bouhlel started coding in his early teens. His new job was to open a subsidiary for a French open source tech startup and that required hiring developers on the ground. They operate online-only or hybrid models (a combination of offline and online settings). GOMYCODE utilizes the latter.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 31, 2013

I predict that 2014 is going to be the Year of Unplugging, and companies will have far more success backing off a bit, being much more thoughtful about what they’re doing online, and making sure to integrate more offline contact and connecting to get back to getting in touch with customers in “old fashioned” ways. Facebook is so 2013.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

In 2014, California Family Health Council (CFHC) launched its TeenSource Multi-Media Peer Educators program so that teens themselves could educate their peers in California on safe sex, relationships, and their health rights. These open source applications are helping to make government work better for everyone.

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Whole Whale

JUNE 1, 2023

AI as a service is now a reality and can be powered by any number of growing open-source models. For the relationship level, AI chatbot provides greetings and routes teens to human counselors who then provide advice. The chatbot has no real understanding of the crisis details. Close monitoring is required.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Cybersecurity experts say that Musk’s idea to make Twitter’s tech open-source could make it more susceptible to attacks, though his ideas for going after spam bots may lead to better detection — and perhaps a reduction of followers for many people wondering about that blank egghead following them.

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