Americans are so fed up with inflation that charitable giving declined last year for just the 4th...

“I go back and forth on whether it’s encouraging or discouraging,” said Giving USA's Josh Birkholz. “There was a 20% to 25% decline in the stock market and an 8% inflation rate."

W3C re-launched as a public-interest non-profit organization

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards.

End of AmazonSmile charity donations ‘could not come at a worse time’ for nonprofits

Amazon says it’s ending AmazonSmile because the program, which donated $400 million in the U.S., didn’t have enough impact. Some small nonprofits disagree.

The future of innovation has patent-free standards

Supposedly “open“ standards – including those ratified by ISO, CEN and ETSI – can’t be implemented without going cap-in-hand to the world’s largest companies to buy a license.

Why the world needs a non-profit search engine

Court affirms it’s false advertising to claim software is Open Source when it’s not

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently affirmed a lower court decision concluding what we’ve always known: that it’s false advertising to claim that software is “open source” when i…

How Scholars Once Feared That the Book Index Would Destroy Reading

When I first began to teach English Literature at university, here is how a lesson would typically begin: Me: Can everyone please turn to page 128 of Mrs Dalloway  ? Student A: What page is it in t…

HRF announces 425 million satoshis of new Bitcoin Development Fund gifts

Bitcoin Version Of ‘Giving Tuesday’ Returns With 10 Times As Many Nonprofits

Crypto Giving Tuesday returns this year to connect bitcoin donors with over 1,000 nonprofits from various sectors.