Sat.May 19, 2018

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Dominic Cummings is the true cowardly face of the Brexiters | Nick Cohen

The Guardian Data Protection

Vote Leave’s director refuses to go before the Commons. He fears the truth will out Dominic Cummings is just a troll. He may have trolled the whole country and changed the course of British history, but he’s still the man with an egg for a face, who screams everyone must be accountable for their actions – everyone except him. MPs who want to question Cummings about the finances of his Vote Leave campaign are “grandstanding” fools spreading “fake news”.

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A Location-Sharing Disaster Shows How Exposed You Really Are

WIRED Threat Level

The failures of Securus and LocationSmart to secure location data are the failures of an entire industry.

Security 101
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'I felt exposed online': how to disappear from the internet

The Guardian Data Protection

Worried about what’s out there about you? You’re not alone. But is it even possible to become a digital ghost? Early one morning last year, before the birds were up, Tio Bucard, his wife and children skittered down the path from their home in a tiny French village towards a black SUV, its engine running. As Bucard drove to the local airport, he checked his rear-view mirror every few moments to see that he was still being followed by Frank Ahearn , a 54-year-old American with a peppery beard and

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A Mugshots.com Indictment, Lost Grenades, and More Security News This Week

WIRED Threat Level

Critical Cisco bugs, lost grenades, and more of the week's top security news.

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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.

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Tech firms can't keep our data forever: we need a Digital Expiry Date

The Guardian Data Protection

Requiring companies to erase our information quarterly would offer us greater freedom online – without destroying profit margins It’s taken a long time, but people have finally discovered how much information companies like Google and Facebook have on them. We cannot keep sacrificing our privacy and dignity to continue using the internet. However, at the same time, new digital innovations that millions love and enjoy require our data.