Sat.Dec 23, 2017

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The Section 702 Surveillance Debate Has Taken Place in the Dark

WIRED Threat Level

As the debate over Section 702 continues, those deciding its fate don't know basic facts about how it works.

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Public interest journalism faces a serious threat from Paradise

The Guardian Data Protection

The offshore law firm at the heart of the Paradise Papers leak has chosen to sue in Britain for good – and worrying – reasons The Paradise Papers investigation into the dubious tax schemes of the world’s wealthiest inhabitants involved 96 media organisations across 67 countries. Appleby, the offshore law firm at the heart of the story, has launched breach-of-confidence proceedings against just two: the Guardian and the BBC.

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France Goes After WhatsApp For Sharing Data With Facebook, and More Security News This Week

WIRED Threat Level

A fake *Cuphead*, a WhatsApp privacy blow-up, and more of the week's top security news.

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Two Contrarian Thinkers who went Unheeded

Troy Hunt

Lord Lansdowne. Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice (1845 – 1927), the 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, was a distinguished British statesman who held senior positions in both Liberal Party and Conservative Party governments. He had served as the fifth Governor General of Canada, Viceroy of India, Secretary of State for War, and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.