Sat.Jan 27, 2018

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Dutch Spies Snooped on Russia's Elite Hackers, and More Security News This Week

WIRED Threat Level

The Doomsday Clock, #ReleaseTheMemo, and more of the week's top security news.

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Weekly Update 71 (Denmark Edition)

Troy Hunt

I'm in Denmark! Well I'm just in Denmark, I'm about to head out the hotel door and into 30 hours of travel which isn't exactly fun, but that's the nature of living on the other side of the world to pretty much everything. This week's update is a little late as my Friday was absolutely non-stop in Denmark. I talk about that below including the preceding days involving some pretty full on sledding in Norway, workshops, talks, ice, slush and snow.

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Balance of power

MIKE 2.0

The digital economy is transforming every corner of our lives. The changes in the businesses we interact with and the way many of us are employed mean subtle but important shifts in power. Patronage, social license and convention that have served prior generations well no longer stand-up in the brave new world we are now navigating. It was Robyn Morgan who said that “information is power” when arguing for a rebalancing of power between the genders.

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Willie Sutton?

InfoGovNuggets

Willie Sutton (a famous bank robber) was reportedly asked, “Why do you rob banks?” He reportedly said, “Because that’s where the money is.” [link]. “Hackers Plunder Crypto Exchange,” The Wall Street Journal , January 27, 2018 B5. More than $500 million in credits hacked from the Coincheck site in Japan. One assumes virtual banks are easier to rob than brick and mortar banks.

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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.