Sitemap - 2023 - DINT

Happy New Year from Your Friends at DINT

DINT 90 - Tech Misogynoir Year in Review

DINT 89 - Musk Messes Up Yet Again - Why Do His Businesses Continue to Thrive?

DINT 88 - Would you take startup funds from a racist company?

Schedule Change - DINT News Moves to Fridays

DINT 87 - Racial and Gender Pay Equity Scorecard - Tech Edition (repost)

Should Eazy-E Live Again Via AI? His Son Says ... Maybe

New Survey Reveals Growth and Diversity in Microbusiness Sector

Fake female tech pros round out speaker lineup at tech event

If Altman Were Black ... ? OpenAI's recent drama brought up questions of race and gender in AI

DINT 86 - As Video Gets Smarter, Police Face More Accountability

OpenAI Drama Act VI: Altman Returns as CEO with New Board Members in Tow

FDA set to approve CRISPR gene editing to cure disease affecting 20M Black and Brown people worldwide

[Breaking News] First female CEO of top AI firm, Mira Murati, ousted in just 2 days amidst OpenAI Shakespearean drama and intrigue

09-19-2023 How 2 Black Woman Startup Founders Landed Coveted Y Combinator Interviews

09-18-2023 Black and Hispanic Women Occupy 5% of STEM Roles, Says Bureau of Labor Statistics

DINT 76 - No-Cost and Low-Cost Tools to Diversify the Digital Infrastructure Industry

09-14-2023 Google’s Data Commons Gets an AI Makeover

09-13-2023 Google Cuts Roster of Recruiters, Laying Off Hundreds

09-12-2023 California on the Cusp of Landmark Legislation for VC Funding and Diversity

09-11-2023 California on the Cusp of Landmark Legislation for VC Funding and Diversity

DINT 75 - Popular Post Roundup: June, July, August

09-07-2023 Microsoft Vows to Protect Customers from Copyright Lawsuits Stemming from AI Copilot

09-06-2023 Gizmodo Fires Editors in Spain and Replaces Them with Auto-Translate AI System

Darker Skinned? Self-Driving Cars Can't See You, Says a New Study

09-04-2023 Meta Plays Hardball with Canada Gov

DINT #74 - Here's the #1 Solution to Performative Diversity in Tech

08-31-2023 Tesla Points Finger at Employees for Major Data Leak Affecting 75K Employees and Customers

08-30-2023 Apple Watch Isn’t Racist, Rules Federal Judge

08-29-2023 Digital War Games: Pentagon Promises to Bring Autonomous Weapons to the Field in 24 Months

08-28-2023 Police Force in UK Loses 3 Years of Body Cam Footage, Affecting 70 Active Investigations

DINT #73 - Racist Abuse at Data Center Construction Sites: Why It Persists and What to Do About It

08-24-2023 Meta Trains AI Large Language Model on Works by Zadie Smith and bell hooks

08-23-2023 Meta and Contractors Have 21 Days to Sort Things Out Says Kenyan Court

08-22-2023 ‘AI Isn’t Coming to Save Us!’ Blacks in US Remain Skeptical of AI in Hiring and Annual Evals

08-21-2023 Somalia Bans TikTok, Telegram in Bid to Stop Terrorist Violence and Propaganda

DINT #72 - Big Tech Refuses to Be Inclusive, 4 Recent Examples

08-17-2023 Google Brain Algorithm Gave Buffalo, NY Gunman Fuel for Racist Gun Rampage: Lawsuits

08-16-2023 Google Invests $1.6M in Nigeria's Tech Future

08-15-2023 Keep Your Eye on Tokenization, It’s Transforming Financial Markets: McKinsey

08-14-2023 Amazon’s Latest Generative AI-Powered Service: Product Review Summaries

DINT #71 - Detroit to Re-vamp Its Facial Recognition Policies to Prevent Even More False Arrests

08-10-2023 Pentagon Courts Hackers with $18.5M Bounty

08-09-2023 Watch Out! AI Can Now Predict Keystrokes by Listening to Users Typing

08-08-2023 - Part II of Pregnant and Arrested Thanks to AI

Special Edition - Pregnant and in Jail: How Detroit Police Failed with Tech - Part I

DINT #70 - Does AI Make Healthcare Racism More Prevalent?

08-03-2023 FCC Fines Robocallers $300M for Making 5B Calls in 2021

08-02-2023 Online Hate Speech Against Black Women Remains Unchecked - What Is Big Tech Doing About It?

08-01-2023 Water-Soluble Circuit Boards: One Semiconductor Firm Is Leading the Charge Towards Responsible e-Waste Recycling

07-31-2023 First Commercial Nuclear Plant in US Goes Live in Ga.

DINT #69 - AI Isn't That Different Than the Music Industry - Here's Why

07/27/2023 - Are You an AI Product Manager? Netflix Will Pay You $900K to Lead MLP

07/26/2023 - SEC Says Public Firms Must Report Data Breaches within 4 Days

07/25/2023 - Open AI Gives Up on AI detector feature

07/24/2023 - Google Attacks Itself, Plus White House Cybersec Official Bows Out Due to Debts

DINT #68 - Big Tech Doubles Down on Diversity

07/20/2023 - AI-Powered Debt Collectors? Yes, They're Here to Collect

07/19/2023 - NYC Mayor to Deploy Drones for Disaster Notifications

07/18/2023 - Quick Recap of Microsoft's AI Launches at Day 1 of Partner Conference

07/17/2023 - Make Computer Science Required in High School to Close the Gender Gap in Tech: Code.org

DINT #67 - As Video Gets Smarter, Police Face More Accountability

07/13/2023 - Google Launches Your Very Own Personal AI Model, NotebookLM

07/12/2023 - Here's Why Meta's Threads Won't Fade Away Like Google+

07/11/2023 - Microsoft Wins Right to Finalize $69B Acquisition of Activision

07/10/2023 - Sarah Silverman Sues OpenAI and Meta for Using Her Material to Train AI Models

DINT #66 - Black Women Lead Diversity Charge in Tech - Is There Support?

07/06/2023 - Thread Threatens Twitter, Gaining 30M Users in Less Than 24 Hours

07/05/2023 - Let's Celebrate! DINT Just Hit 100 Issues!

07/04/2023 - In 2 Days Meta Is Set to Launch Twitter Rival App 'Threads'

07/03/2023 - Google Privacy Policy Change Gives It the Right to Scrape Your Data Across All of Its Products ... for the Sake of AI

DINT #65 - Will Court Ruling Affect Corporate Diversity in Tech?

06/29/2023 - Funding for India’s Startups Plummets 68% in H1 2023

06/28/2023 - AI Isn't All Bad Says AI Ethicist and Researcher Joy Buolamwini

06/27/2023 - Amazon Puts Small Businesses on Payroll to Deliver Packages to Your Door

06/26/2023 - Amazon Pours $15B Into India's Digital Infrastructure

DINT #64 - In Celebration of News at the Nexus of Tech, Race, and Gender

06/22/2023 - Heat Waves Stress Power Grids Worldwide

06/21/2023 - $30 Game Controller Steers Missing Submarine

06/20/2023 - Amazon: 'We're Working on It' re: Racial Equity Audit

Thoughts on a Day Off

DINT #63 - Tesla's Racism Problem Isn't Going Away - Neither Is Its Revenue

06/15/2023 - EU Pauses Bard Launch on Privacy Concerns

06/14/2023 - Quantum Computing Advances Hold Mixed Opportunities

06/13/2023 - Meta Chooses AMD for AI Strategy

06/12/2023 - Former Samsung Exec Caught Spying for China

DINT #62 - A Love Letter to Digital Infrastructure

06/08/2023 - Microsoft Gives the Gov Secure AI

06/07/2023 DINT - Microsoft Struggles to Get Cloud Products Back Online

06/06/2023 - Hackers Use ChatGPT Hallucinations to Infect Software Code

06/05/2023 DINT - Apple Says VR Is Your Future

DINT #61 - Dear Google, I Am Not a Gorilla

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DINT #60 - Essay: Data Centers on Hallowed Ground of My Ancestors

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DINT #60 - UK Profiles Beyoncé Concertgoers with Facial Recognition

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DINT #59 – Timnit Won't Shut Up About Bias in AI, and We Love Her for It

DINT #58 – Why Are DEI Leaders from a Firm’s Most Underrepresented Groups?

DINT #57 – Digital Identity Tech Growing Faster Than Laws to Protect the Underrepresented

DINT #56 – Diversity Director Drops Dime on Meta, Gets Fired and Followed by Employer

DINT #55 - Emerging Economies Clean Up the Dregs of the Internet in Service to AI

DINT #54 - Your Tax Dollars Fund Racism and Sexism in Tech

DINT #53 - Affordable Coding Bootcamp Helps Diversify Tech

DINT #52 - Laws to Protect the Underrepresented in Tech

DINT #51 – Biased Job Descriptions Tank Tech Diversity Hiring and Promotions: Study

DINT #50 – Diversity Solved: The One Thing Companies Must Do to End Performative Diversity

DINT #49 – Guest Post: Highlighting the Difference Between Real Power...and Fake Power

DINT #48 - Qualcomm Fakes Its Diversity Numbers, Gets Called Out by Activist Investor

DINT #47 - Performative Diversity Survival Guide 2023

DINT #46 - Is Nepotism Killing Tech Diversity Efforts?

DINT #45 - Google's DEI Secret: Reverse Racism Among South Asian Employees or Outright Discrimination?

DINT #44 - Google’s Civil Rights Audit Reveals Toothless Approach to Diversity

DINT #43 - Google Grudgingly Gives Its Racial Equity Report - A Timeline

DINT #42 – Amazon's Promise: 1 Year Later and Still No Racial Equity Audit Findings

DINT #41 - Report: 24% of Tech Workers Experienced Racism in 2022

DINT #40 - The Overemployed Flaunt Their Privilege - AI Is Not 'The Great Equalizer'

DINT #39 – AI 101: A Series on Core Elements of This Emerging Tech

DINT #38 - AI Reveals the Scariest Parts of Our Nature – Do We Really Want to Automate That?

DINT #37 – Are White Women Overrepresented in Tech (Will Intersectional Metrics Help?)

DINT #36 - AI Laws: Who Benefits and Why?

Join me on Notes

DINT #35 - Black Founders Capture 1% of Available Venture Capital: Crunchbase

DINT #34 - Pepsi’s Story of Digital Transformation is a Playbook for DEI Adoption

DINT #33 - Workplace Spies or Allies: Do ERGs Help or Hurt Careers?

DINT #32 - How One HBCU Helped Students Overcome Barriers to Tech Internships

DINT #31 - How to Cope with Being the Only One in the Room

DINT #30 - Digital Infrastructure Under Attack

DINT #29 - ‘AI Will Not Replace Us!’ Using AI to Close Talent Gaps and Close Diversity Pipelines in Cybersecurity

DINT #28 - Pst! ChatGPT Just Called You a Racist

DINT #27 - Dell’s CEO Pipeline Doesn’t Exist – Tech Founder/CEOs Could Be the Problem

DINT #26 - Arrested by AI: Police Used Facial Recognition More Than 1M Times Says BBC

DINT #25 - Meta's CEO Succession Plan: Zuck, Zuck, and More Zuck

DINT #24 - Why Black and Brown People Don't Want to 'Return to Office'

DINT #23 - Nadella Leads Microsoft to More Diverse Future

DINT #22 - Are Black Women Welcome at Google?

DINT #21 - Apple's Tim Cook Won't Have a Black Successor

DINT #20 - Which Tech CEOs are Diverse? Which Have Diverse Mentees as Successors?

DINT Subscriber Exclusive: W*ke Bank Controversy and Access to ESG Funding

DINT #19 - Does the SVB Collapse Affect Climate Tech Funding?

DINT #18 - 'Chocolate City' Atlanta Captures Data Center Overflow from Virginia: CBRE

DINT #17 - More News from the SVB Trenches: Childcare Service CEO Self-Funds Startup Until Fed Insured 100% of SVB Deposits

DINT #16 - How One Founder Weathers the SVB storm

DINT #15 - 55K Tech Workers Laid Off: Which Firm Treated Their People Best?

DINT #14 - TikTok Takes Another Gov Hit, This Time from Belgium

DINT #13 – Education for the People! SANS Launches Academy to Diversify Cybersecurity

DINT #12 - Happy? International Women’s Day

DINT #11 - LinkedIn Doles Out Compliments? and Lyft Gets Caught Between Facts and Promises

DINT #10 - More Female Hackers than White-Hatters? Trend Micro Says It Is So

DINT #9 - CNET Cuts Half of News Staff and Their EIC Guglielmo Steps Down

DINT #8 - AWS to Spend $6B in Malaysia to Help Customers Comply with Privacy Laws

DINT #7 - Happy? Women's History Month

DINT #6 - Biden Shifts Childcare Problem-Solving onto CHIPS Fund Applicants

Microsoft Wants You to Trust Its AI Isn’t Racist, or Sexist, or Biased in Any Other Way

DINT #4 - Green Doesn't Mean Go for AWS?

DINT #3 AMD to Intel: Those Aren’t Even Real!

DINT #2: Watch Out! DDoS-for-Hire Re-Emerges

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