John Battelle's Searchblog

MARCH 28, 2014

'The post Might Curators Be An Answer To Twitter’s Signal To Noise Problem? appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. My stats in 2008. And at present. 10X the number of folks followed = Signal to Noise problem. Twitter’s lack of growth over the past few months has quickly become its defining narrative – witness Inside Twitter’s plan to fix itself from Quartz, which despite the headline, fails to actually explain anything about said plan.

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Interactive Information Management

MARCH 27, 2014

If you're in any way associated with Government contracting, project or program management, project or system cost estimating or resourcing, whether on the job or during acquisition processes and proposal preparation - you may need PMP, ITIL or Cost Estimation Certification and/or training. This is important not only from the business manager perspective, but also from the Enterprise and Solution Architect perspective - it comes in very handy.

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Robert's Db2

MARCH 28, 2014

Not long ago, a colleague of mine sent to me an e-mail message that he'd received from a person who supports DB2 for z/OS at a US-based company. In this message the IT professional wrote of some DB2-accessing application programs that were running into lock contention issues with page-level locking (the default) in effect. He knew that going to row-level locking for the target tables (accomplished by altering the associated table spaces with LOCKSIZE(ROW)) would likely resolve the locking confli

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Elie

MARCH 25, 2014

Half of Android users don’t bother to lock their phones, despite having the choice of using patterns, passwords, PINs, and even their faces to secure their devices. This contrasts starkly with a report from the Federal Communications Commission warning that up to 40 percent of robberies in major cities involve cell phones. More precisely, over 52 percent.

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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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John Battelle's Searchblog

MARCH 24, 2014

'The post Why You Should Read The Circle, Even If You Don’t Buy It appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. Last month I finished Dave Eggers’ latest novel The Circle , the first work by a bona fide literary light that takes on our relationship with today’s Internet technology and, in particular, our relationship with corporations like Google.

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Hunton Privacy

MARCH 28, 2014

On March 20, 2014, Australia’s Privacy Amendment (Privacy Alerts) Bill 2014 was re-introduced in the Senate for a first read. The bill, which was subject to a second reading debate on March 27, 2014, originally was introduced on May 29, 2013, but it lapsed on November 12, 2013 at the end of the session. As we previously reported , if passed, the bill would amend the Privacy Act 1988 by introducing a mandatory breach notification requirement for “serious data breaches.

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JKevinParker

MARCH 22, 2014

Typeface preferences are subjective. That said, some fonts are just more readable than others. This is true even in "code view". Code editors should generally use a monospaced font (a font where each character is the same width), as this allows us to see patterns within lines of code more easily. But your font does not have to be awful. Like Courier New.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

MARCH 24, 2014

'The post Else 3.24.14: “In front of us are two roads – which way are we going to go?” appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. Back in the saddle after missing a week of Else (sorry about that). The best stories from the past two weeks are below, and you’ll note a bit of TED, which ran last week, as well as a fair amount of Google, which is hard to avoid given the focus of this newsletter: If you’re going to cover “becoming data” it’s b

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

MARCH 28, 2014

Yesterday (27 March 2014) the Romanian DPA approved a decision on the use of Binding Corporate Rules (BCRs). Historically the DPA […].

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Hunton Privacy

MARCH 28, 2014

On March 28, 2014, the Federal Trade Commission announced proposed settlements with Fandango and Credit Karma stemming from allegations that the companies misrepresented the security of their mobile apps and failed to secure consumers’ sensitive personal information transmitted using their mobile apps. The FTC alleged that Fandango and Credit Karma did not take reasonable steps to secure their mobile apps, including by overriding the industry standard Secure Sockets Layer (“SSL”) certificate val

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Hunton Privacy

MARCH 28, 2014

On March 25, 2014, the Article 29 Working Party adopted Opinion 03/2014 (the “Opinion”) providing guidance on whether individuals should be notified in case of a data breach. The Opinion goes beyond considering the notification obligations contained in the e-Privacy Directive 2002/58/EC , which requires telecommunications service providers to notify the competent national authority of all data breaches.

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