Tech Education Collaborative

The Technology Education Collaborative empowers everyday people to become informed users of the technology embedded in their daily lives.

We help people better understand the tech that surrounds them on a daily basis. TEC does this with an emphasis on practical application by hosting events ranging from Right to Repair workshops, Privacy meetups and tech field trips and demos. Our agreement with the Advanced Cyber Systems Lab at GateWay Community College helps us give the general public hands-on access to advanced technologies they can use to learn, discover and play.

Upcoming Events

October 2024 Right to Repair Workshop:
Fix Your Own Phone

Learn to fix your own tech for free at our monthly Right to Repair Workshop

Join us on Tuesday, October 15 at 7 p.m. for this free workshop where you'll learn how to fix your own phone!

This in-person workshop takes place at the Advanced Cyber Systems Lab at GateWay Community College (Washington campus), home to the only right to repair hub in Phoenix metro valley. Map and parking directions to "the lab" can be found here.

Seating limited - RSVP here

October 2024 Privacy PIE
Driving the Surveillance Economy:
What Your Car Knows About You

Join us on Tuesday, October 22 at 6 p.m. for an eye-opening discussion on the what information your car is tracking – and revealing – about you.

This in-person talk takes place at the Advanced Cyber Systems Lab at GateWay Community College (Washington campus), home to the only right to repair hub in Phoenix metro valley. Map and parking directions to "the lab" can be found here.

Seating Limited - Save Your Spot Here

October 2024 TEC Talks Episodes

**David Koontz** talks about the day in a life of a **front end senior software engineer.**

**Hermit Technologies co-Director** **Jordan Andersen**sat down with TEC's CTO, Charles Knox, and discussed **founding a radically ethical software consultancy** and **how AI can often get overhyped, overpromised, and oversold.**

October Article Club selection

To participate in this discussion, just join the async discussion on the TEC Reads channel on our Discord server.

Rhadamanthys information stealer introduces AI-driven capabilities

Anyone dealing in cryptocurrency should be concerned, to say the least.

As will surprise literally no one AI is being used in terrifying and creative ways by multitudes of bad actors. This month's article by Pierluigi Paganini for Security Affairs examines how a new iteration of the Rhadamanthys information stealer leverages optical character recognition (OCR) to extract cryptocurrency seed phrases.

Publication: Security Affairs

Long and Ugly Link:
https://securityaffairs.com/169253/malware/rhadamanthys-information-stealer-uses-ai.html