Troy Hunt

JULY 18, 2022

The first really serious commitment I made to blogging was the following year when I began the OWASP Top 10 for ASP.NET series. How about ASafaWeb in 2011 ? There were 2 very simple reasons I built that and I've given this same answer in probably a hundred interviews since 2013: I wanted to build something on Azure in anger.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 3, 2016

” Examples include sensors in jet engines (and just about everything else of industrial significance), exercise and health wearables , and home automation , to name but a few. Predictions 2013. 2013: How I Did. Predictions 2011. 2011: How I Did. Medium has a breakout year. Related: Predictions 2015.

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Data Protector

OCTOBER 11, 2017

What follows below is an edited version of the debate in the House of Lords of the Second Reading of the Data Protection Bill, held on 10 October. I will highlight, rather at random, some other examples which need reflection. We have become accustomed to the idea that some financial institutions are too big to fail.

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Data Matters

APRIL 23, 2018

For example, organizations dealing with the most sensitive data—such as defense contractors—should target the adaptive tier across functional areas, while organizations with a lower risk profile may decide to target lower tiers when designing their systems.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Here’s what I meant by that: “Built, again, from a mashup of OpenAI technology and Microsoft’s Azure compute platform, E2 would address some of ChatGPT’s most annoying problems – its indifference to truth , for example, or the biases inherent to its Web-scale training corpus. ” So did they launch this kind of a service?

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IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Although Creeper is the first known example of a worm, it is not actually malware. Designed to exploit a backdoor on Unix systems, and to stay hidden, the worm quickly spread, copying itself over and over again and infecting a full 10% of all networked computers. The attack is an early example of social engineering and phishing.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Score: 10 of 10. #2: Score: 5 of 10. #3. Score: 4 of 10. #4. Score: 7 of 10. #5. S core: 2 of 10. #6. It’s well on its way to doing just that (just bought Shazam, for example, and isn’t exactly fighting the tax bill). Score: 6 of 10. #7. Score: 0 out of 10. # This one is harder to judge.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Score: 10 of 10. #2: Score: 5 of 10. #3. Score: 4 of 10. #4. Score: 7 of 10. #5. S core: 2 of 10. #6. It’s well on its way to doing just that (just bought Shazam, for example, and isn’t exactly fighting the tax bill). Score: 6 of 10. #7. Score: 0 out of 10. # This one is harder to judge.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Score: 10 of 10. #2: Score: 5 of 10. #3. Score: 4 of 10. #4. Score: 7 of 10. #5. S core: 2 of 10. #6. It’s well on its way to doing just that (just bought Shazam, for example, and isn’t exactly fighting the tax bill). Score: 6 of 10. #7. Score: 0 out of 10. # This one is harder to judge.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Advertising will no longer be a sideshow to its sexier device business; it will be a $10-15 billion juggernaut with 50-90-percent profit margins. Why can’t the data from retail media networks inform supply chains, for example? And for once, it won’t be to make a marketing campaign more efficient.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 30, 2018

Score: 10/10. Score: 10/10. Score: 7/10. ” Ummm… yep, and see the next two predictions… Score: 9/10. Score: 10/10. Score: 8/10. Prediction #2: Donald Trump blows up. A Democratic majority in the House preparing an endless barrage of subpoenas and investigations.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 1, 2021

There will be some movement – net neutrality will probably get reaffirmed and we’ll fix Trump’s H1-B messes, for example. Predictions 2013. 2013: How I Did. Predictions 2011. 2011: How I Did. Please, MAKE IT SO. Africa rising, China…in question. Predictions 2017. 2017: How I Did.

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