John Battelle's Searchblog

APRIL 27, 2012

Ever since the Pebble watch became an cause célèbre in tech circles for its kickass Kickstarter moves (it’s raised almost $7mm dollars and counting), something’s been nagging me about the company and its product. It’s now Valley legend that the company had to turn to Kickstarter to get its working capital – more than 46,000 folks have backed Pebble, and will soon be proudly sporting their spiffy new iPhone-powered watches as a result.

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Robert's Db2

APRIL 27, 2012

In part 1 of this three-part series on leveraging Big Memory (i.e., a large z/OS LPAR real storage resource) to enhance DB2 workload CPU efficiency, I focused on getting the most out of a DB2 buffer pool configuration without increasing its size (this by adjusting certain threshold settings and redistributing buffers between low-I/O and high-I/O pools).

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Preservica

APRIL 26, 2012

The cloud has driven down the cost of ownership of IT systems enabling smaller organisations the ability to access services that were previously only available to the global 1000. Can the cloud do the same for digital preservation? Tessella’s head of digital archiving Mark Evans explored these issues at PASIG 2012 which took place in January in Austin TX.

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Hunton Privacy

APRIL 25, 2012

On April 19, 2012, the French Data Protection Authority (the “CNIL”) issued a press release detailing its enforcement agenda for 2012. In a report adopted March 29, 2012, the CNIL announced that it will conduct 450 on-site inspections this year, with particular focus on the specific themes described below. The CNIL also indicated that it will continue the work started in 2011 with at least 150 additional inspections related to video surveillance, especially with respect to surveillance in locati

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Computer and Electronics IT Data breaches Personal data 40

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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Hunton Privacy

APRIL 25, 2012

The UK Information Commissioner’s Office’s (“ICO”) has revised its statutory Code of Practice on assessment notices (the “Code”). The ICO first issued the Code in 2010, when its audit powers came into force. The Code has now been updated to reflect changes in auditing standards and practices. Background. Since 2010, the ICO has been empowered under the Data Protection Act 1998 (“DPA”) to undertake compulsory audits of central governments and other designated bodies, by serving a Section 41A asse

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