Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

Then I’ll share the latest stories on the impact of our tech volunteerism and human rights tech efforts as well our new tech leadership. Human Rights Our Human Rights Program continues to focus on helping activists and journalists securely document the stories of human rights abuses worldwide. billion poor and unbanked.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

That’s where Upbound comes in with its open source Crossplane multi-cloud management tool. While some solutions like Google Anthos and Red Hat OpenShift have come along, there was a lack of open source tooling until Upbound released Crossplane in May 2020.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Pydantic , the popular Python library and open source data-validation framework used by some of the world’s biggest companies, has a new commercial namesake and the backing of one of Silicon Valley’s most storied venture capital (VC) firms. Pydantic Services Inc. emerges from stealth today with $4.7 and Europe. .

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NTEN

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Data Leadership Open Source Strategy Communications' Seems we've entered a golden era of interactive mapping, with no shortage of exciting ways to display geographically-specific data. In the last few years, we've seen exponential growth in interactive mapping software that presents data from all sorts of angles.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 19, 2012

We’ve all experienced videos, blogs, photos, or topics “going viral” online before our eyes – the number of views increases, our Facebook timeline fills with reposts of the story, or a hashtag rises up the trending charts. Tendenci Released as Open Source by Schipul. At SXSW, there….

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NTEN

AUGUST 12, 2013

Data interactive maps Leadership mapping MS-DS nptech nten Open Source Paul Chamberlain Strategy Communications' In the last few years, we've seen exponential growth in interactive mapping software that presents data from all sorts of angles.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 6, 2014

Dries Buytaert created Drupal, an open source content management platform, in his dorm room. This story continues at The Next Web. He is also the co-founder and CTO at Acquia, a company providing enterprise software for websites and commerce. Entrepreneur Analysis and Opinion'

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Futurism

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

billion if you want," Altman wrote in a scathing rebuke shortly after the WSJ published its story, referencing Musk's disastrous acquisition of the social media platform, which has since lost almost 80 percent of what it was worth when he bought it. No thank you but we will buy twitter for $9.74

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Wired

MARCH 24, 2025

From post-quantum algorithms and thermodynamic hardware to open source architectures and apocalypse-proof programming, WIRED journeys to the freaky frontiers of modern computing. If you dont understand how digital tech is changing, youll be swallowed by it.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 26, 2016

Customized marketing content Using collected user data, you can leverage open source machine learning databases to find patterns in human interactions with marketing content. Using these new technologies, you… This story continues at The Next Web.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 13, 2025

The design also requires users to include a link, adding a layer of credibility to the note (although the link may not be a reliable source). Meta uses an Xs open-source algorithmwhich may evolve later as they learn more about how it all really works, Meta saysto determine whether the note is helpful and unbiased.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Several providers offer open source or limited free access, which is a great way to test options. Free and Open-Source Apache Spark provides a powerful platform for large-scale data processing and machine learning tasks. RapidMiner is another open-source platform with a drag-and-drop interface.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Highlights of this Letter: SocialCoding4Good CityOptions Read2Go and Route 66 Literacy Selected Program Updates Human rights: Legal victory in Guatemala, PBS NewsHour stories Literacy: Major milestones for Bookshare at home and abroad SocialCoding4Good Just funded by the John S. and James L.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

So when it comes to Automattic , the leading commercial complement to the open-source WordPress publishing platform, time and longevity have a rather peculiar meaning in an industry littered with the gravestones of media sites of yore.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Today, to those who haven’t been paying attention, the company looks a bit like an overnight success story. WordPress, the open source software behind the company, is now estimated to power roughly 42% of all websites on the internet. Nothing has been automatic about the success of Automattic.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

I have a story about nonprofits with a website they can’t leverage for their mission. Although complete fiction, this story will feel quite familiar. And I know I’ve been a guilty party in a real story at some point in my career. They are resistant to rapid changes in their technology, as well they should be.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

It even showed its work through research papers and by open-sourcing its models. DeepSeeks breakthroughs caused some angst, but its fresh thinking and openness will likely spur bigger and faster innovations from the worlds top AI companies by this time next year. People downloaded variants of the open-source Phi-3 more than 4.5

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 22, 2013

Here’s why this grant is so important to us: Gathering the stories of victims and witnesses puts human rights fieldworkers and their sources at grave risk. That’s why all of the software work done by Benetech and our technology development partners on Martus is open source: where the software’s source code is open for inspection.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

MARCH 3, 2025

Wild Me supports over 2,000 researchers across the globe running AI-enabled wildlife population studies for marine and terrestrial species.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2020

Released in 2003, WordPress is open-source software and free to use and fully-customizable using WordPress themes and plug-ins. The Tent Partnership for Refugee s excels in its use of white space to focus a visitor’s attention on videos embedded in their site that best tell their story.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

That is, the headline needs to be tantalizing enough to get a reader to click through, but mustn’t give away the whole story. A great example comes from an Upworthy story about Mitt Romney: Too vague, so readers aren’t interested: Mitt Romney Says Something Bad, Again. Use numbers: Our brains can understand it more easily.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Event] Example Tweet: UNICEF is using RapidSMS in 23 countries, many more users who download the open source software. Any hashtag success stories? If your organization is using Twitter to promote an event or campaign, make sure your decide on a #hashtag and consistently use it while your are promoting the event and/or campaign.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2021

Stacklet , a startup that is commercializing the Cloud Custodian open-source cloud governance project, today announced that it has raised an $18 million Series A funding round. “They’ve done all this while sheltered in place at home during a once-in-a-lifetime global pandemic. .”

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

One of the underlying stories of the 2008 election victory of Barack Obama is the really intelligent use of technology , in a way that will permanently change how campaigns are run in the future. Open Source Hardware: can it be done ? Open-Xchange just got a bunch of $.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 13, 2014

In the absence of standards that protect that information, the lives of suffering people—victims, witnesses, and the defenders who collect their stories—are all too often put in harm''s way. Unfortunately, there are many other stories of abuse and violation. This is but one incident.

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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. None of the University of Minnesota researchers would talk to me for this story. Getting a patch on people’s computers is no easy task.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

We develop free and open source software to help groups capture the stories of human rights abuse, and store and back them up securely in another country. Endangering Human Rights Activists. Benetech is one of the largest developers of software for human rights activists around the world. Wonderful stuff.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. It’s a creative, visual way to tell your organization’s stories of protest to your online communities. A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

It built a streaming data platform on top of the open-source Apache Kafka project. In addition to its open-source roots, Confluent has a free tier of its commercial cloud offering to complement its paid products, helping generate top-of-funnel inflows that it converts to sales. What does Confluent do?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 20, 2013

From capturing the stories of human rights violations in Guatemala, Burma, Syria and Uganda, to helping a biologist plan a better restoration of a wetlands, or matching up an open source geek with the social good project of his or her dreams, Benetech’s team is using technology to make the world a better place.

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The Verge

APRIL 16, 2022

This is a huge story with a lot of fast-moving parts to it. It’s also a story that will likely stretch out over the next few months, maybe even longer. The story so far: How did the Musk-Twitter saga begin? These include an edit feature, an open-source algorithm, less moderation, and a higher bar for removing offending tweets.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 19, 2016

This is my second visit to Tirana for the OSCAL conference, an annual celebration of open source technology in Albania’s capital. I understand the geographical, historical and political reasons this may be… This story continues at The Next Web. First, why am I including Kosovo in this article alongside Albania?

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Singularity Hub

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

.’ Sam Altman: OpenAI Has Been on the ‘Wrong Side of History’ Concerning Open Source Kyle Wiggers | TechCrunch “Altman admitted that DeepSeek has lessened OpenAIs lead in AI, and he said he believes OpenAI has been ‘on the wrong side of history’ when it comes to open sourcing its technologies.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 13, 2012

Telling the Benetech story better is crucial to our future: crucial to making the social change at scale that we consider the essence of innovation. In 2012, we’ll be rolling out new branding, new media, and new stories all with the goal of getting better at what we do and raising our impact. They just worked!

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2020

BuildBuddy , whose software helps developers compile and test code quickly using a blend of open-source technology and proprietary tools, announced a funding round today worth $3.15 Google open-sourced the core of Blaze , which was named Bazel, an anagram of the original name. So what does BuildBuddy do?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 30, 2009

It’s a wonderful opportunity for our community to share our collective wisdom with inspiring stories and practical tools that help women professionally and personally and of course, change the world. Check out these awesome panels and sign up today. Don’t miss this year’s telesummitt.

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TechNode

JANUARY 10, 2024

Huawei announced on Wednesday that NetEases mobile game A Chinese Ghost Story was the first to use its open-source adaptation for HarmonyOS on the Unity China engine.

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