Collaboration 2.0

MARCH 27, 2012

Achieving great collective performance has the same basic principles for musicians, sports teams and other groups of individuals.

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Hunton Privacy

MARCH 30, 2012

On March 23, 2012, the Article 29 Working Party (the “Working Party”) adopted an Opinion on the European Commission’s data protection law reform proposals , including the draft Regulation that is of particular importance for businesses. The Working Party’s Opinion serves as the national data protection authorities’ contribution to the legislative process before the European Parliament and the European Council.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

MARCH 28, 2012

Are you one of those who have been monitoring the progress of Canada’s Anti-Spam Law (CASL)? If so, you may also […].

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Preservica

MARCH 27, 2012

Good to see the BBC getting digital preservation on the cloud - see [link] at 15.07 onwards (UK only).

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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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Scary Beasts Security

MARCH 28, 2012

For the brave, there now exists a pre-release version of vsftpd-3.0.0: [link] [link] The most significant change is an initial implementation of a secondary sandbox based on seccomp filter , as recently merged to Ubuntu 12.04. This secondary sandbox is pretty powerful, but I'll go into more details in a subsequent post. For now, suffice to say I'm interested in testing of this new build, e.g.

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Robert's Db2

MARCH 30, 2012

If you are a DB2 for z/OS DBA or systems programmer, chances are that a good bit of what you do is focused on improving the CPU efficiency of your organization's DB2-accessing application workload. There are various ways in which people go about reducing DB2-related CPU consumption, including SQL statement tuning, physical database design changes (e.g., adding or modifying indexes), shifting work to zIIP engines (for example, by going with native SQL procedures versus external stored procedures

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Hunton Privacy

MARCH 27, 2012

On March 26, 2012, the Federal Trade Commission issued a new privacy report entitled “Protecting Consumer Privacy in an Era of Rapid Change: A Proposed Framework for Businesses and Policymakers.” The report charts a path forward for companies to act in the interest of protecting consumer privacy. In his introductory remarks, FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz indicated his support for Do Not Track stating, “Simply put, your computer is your property; no one has the right to put anything on it that you d

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Hunton Privacy

MARCH 27, 2012

On March 21, 2012, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley announced that Maloney Properties Inc. (“MPI”), a property management firm, executed an Assurance of Discontinuance and agreed to pay $15,000 in civil penalties following an October 2011 theft of an unencrypted company-issued laptop. The laptop contained personal information of more than 600 Massachusetts residents and was left in an employee’s car overnight.

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