Hacker News with Generative AI: Portland

$6.7M stolen from city of Portland in phishing scheme (oregonlive.com)
A person posing as a city of Portland vendor persuaded a city employee to send them a link allowing them to redirect $6.7 million meant for a legitimate vendor to them, a lawsuit filed in New York this month says.

Cybersecurity, Phishing, Government, Lawsuit, Portland

14 points by rwc9 2 days ago | 1 comments

In Portland, teachers are missing more school than ever (oregonlive.com)
Well before the share of students missing more than three weeks of the school year skyrocketed to near-highest-in-the-nation levels during the pandemic, Oregon was battling a high rate of chronic absenteeism.

Education, Portland, Chronic Absenteeism, Oregon

5 points by rwc9 13 days ago | 2 comments

Portlander creates AI-powered device to monitor street health (bikeportland.org)
If you ride on NE 26th Avenue and Wasco, you might have noticed a small square box with a camera lens peering out onto the street.

Artificial Intelligence, Urban Planning, Portland, Technology, Street Infrastructure

22 points by burlesona 32 days ago | 4 comments

Portland's Poisonous Past – Poison Idea Are Hardcore's Greatest of All Time 2013 (portlandmercury.com)
RECENT TRANSPLANTS to the City of Roses would hardly recognize the Portland that spawned Poison Idea back in 1980.

Music, Portland, Punk Rock, Hardcore

9 points by frereubu 60 days ago | 2 comments

Portland's exploding Liberty Bell (2020) (tomlovesthelibertybell.com)
It’s the Saturday before the first Thanksgiving of the 1970s, and shit has been blowing up with alarming regularity.