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A Big Day For Federated, and the Birth of Sovrn Holdings

John Battelle's Searchblog

'The post A Big Day For Federated, and the Birth of Sovrn Holdings appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. Today marks a big milestone for Federated Media , the company we launched way back in 2005. As you can read here, LIN Media is acquiring Federated Media’s brand and content marketing business , and a new company, sovrn Holdings, Inc.

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SKA: collaboration to map a billion galaxies to the edge of our Universe

Collaboration 2.0

'Einstein''s Theory of Relativity, Newton''s Laws of Motion and other fundamental assumptions may be revised through colossal data analysis exploration flowing from the ''Square Kilometre Array'' Radio Telescope'

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DB2 10 (and beyond) for z/OS: Being Smart About More RELEASE(DEALLOCATE)

Robert's Db2

By now, a lot of you probably know that a really important action to take, once your DB2 subsystem is at the Version 10 (conversion mode) level, is to rebind your plans and packages. Taking this action delivers several benefits: It tends to improve the CPU efficiency of package execution. Obviously, you could see performance gains related to positive access path changes, as the optimizer gets smarter with each new release of DB2; however, even if access paths associated with a package don't chan

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Phone screen size: bigger isn't always better

Elie

Marketers agree: screen size is a top priority for anyone shopping for their next cell phone but my new consumer survey challenges this conventional wisdom.

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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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A Soccer Field on the Data Center, Chickens in the Parking Lot - in Northern Virginia

Interactive Information Management

Following the initial planning and construction phases, the presence and benefits of operating Data Centers in Northern Virginia seem currently limited, or perhaps simply not well-known, in terms of local, positive community visibility and impact (beyond direct revenue via commercial taxes and the indirect boost to community bond ratings and real estate values).

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Increased Focus on Cyber Insurance Post-Target Breach

Hunton Privacy

Recent media attention focused on the security breach that affected millions of Target customers has increased interest in cyber insurance to cover the financial losses associated with these types of events. As insurers aggressively market insurance products to protect against cyber risks, it’s important to note differences in the language carriers have chosen to include in their policy forms.

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Obama’s European Privacy Headache

Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

Since the revelations of Edward Snowden, there has been a wave of data privacy repercussions in Europe. Snowden, the former […].

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else 1.27: “Humans are pretty good at deceiving themselves”

John Battelle's Searchblog

'The post else 1.27: “Humans are pretty good at deceiving themselves” appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. This week we read about reverse engineering algorithms for dates, anticipatory algorithms, and more social weirdness with Google Glass. As always, if you want to keep up with what we’re reading/thinking about on a weekly basis, the best way is to subscribe to the “else” feed, either as an email newsletter or through RSS.

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SKA: collaboration to map a billion galaxies to the edge of our Universe

Collaboration 2.0

'Einstein''s Theory of Relativity, Newton''s Laws of Motion and other fundamental assumptions may be revised through colossal data analysis exploration flowing from the ''Square Kilometre Array'' Radio Telescope.

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How and Why Should You Be Tracking Geopolitical Risk?

Geopolitical risk is now at the top of the agenda for CEOs. But tracking it can be difficult. The world is more interconnected than ever, whether in terms of economics and supply chains or technology and communication. Geopolitically, however, it is becoming increasingly fragmented – threatening the operations, financial well-being, and security of globally connected companies.

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NSA Appoints Chief Privacy Officer

Hunton Privacy

On January 29, 2014, the National Security Agency (“NSA”) announced that Rebecca Richards has been appointed to serve as the NSA’s new Civil Liberties and Privacy Officer. Ms. Richards, who previously worked as the Senior Director for Privacy Compliance at the Department of Homeland Security, will advise the NSA Director on civil liberties and privacy issues and implement reforms in those areas.

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Federal German Court Rules on Credit Scoring and Data Subject Access Rights

Hunton Privacy

On January 28, 2014, the Federal Court of Justice of Germany clarified the scope of a data subject’s right of access to personal data in the context of credit scoring. Germany’s Federal Data Protection Act contains detailed and expansive provisions on the right of access where personal data are processed and shared to determine a data subject’s future behavior.

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Commissioner Reding Calls for New European Data Protection Compact

Hunton Privacy

On January 28, 2014, Data Protection Day, Vice-President of the European Commission and Commissioner for Justice Fundamental Rights and Citizenship Viviane Reding gave a speech in Brussels proposing a new data protection compact for Europe. She focused on three key themes: (1) the need to rebuild trust in data processing, (2) the current state of data protection in the EU, and (3) a new data protection compact for Europe.

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SKA: collaboration to map a billion galaxies to the edge of our Universe

Collaboration 2.0

'Einstein''s Theory of Relativity, Newton''s Laws of Motion and other fundamental assumptions may be revised through colossal data analysis exploration flowing from the ''Square Kilometre Array'' Radio Telescope.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.