Mon.Jun 11, 2018

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The commercial impact of IoT insecurity

CTOvision

Introduction A hacker recently shut down Bycyklen, Copenhagen’s public city bikes system, forcing employees to hunt down and manually reboot the Android tablet attached to every bike. The company said that restoring all bikes to working order would "take some time". Naturally, the costs of restoration will be significant. This is just one example of [.].

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How I Found CVE-2018-8819: Out-of-Band (OOB) XXE in WebCTRL

Coalfire

I like to do bug bounties from time to time, mostly when I am sacrificing sleep once the kids are finally out cold. This seemed like a worthy experience to document. Let me just start by saying I don't plan on going into the whole recon bits too deeply here. Maybe I will someday if I ever have enough time to give the topic the justice it deserves.

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Tech as a Career Gains Ground, Microsoft’s Sinks Data, SAP Does Blockchain

CTOvision

Inventor says Google is patenting work he put in the public domain Apple and Samsung have been accusing each other of copying or stealing patented tech but Google has seldom been involved in such accusations. But Jarek Duda, inventor of ANS video compression concept thinks that Google is copying his tech. Duda says that the search [.].

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Venture Capital and Basketball

Battery Ventures

To the casual observer, investing is nothing like the exciting game of basketball. Instead of evaluating a player’s jump shot or ability to slip a screen, VCs are looking at financial statements or pitch decks. Upon closer inspection though, I’ve realized that running an NBA basketball team and venture capital investing are remarkably similar. They are both highly competitive games of skill and chance.

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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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Planbox Named to Top 10 Employee Engagement Solution Providers – 2018

Planbox

Planbox, the leading provider of AI-Powered Agile Work Innovation Solutions, has been recognized as one of the Top 10 Employee Engagement Solution Providers of 2018 by HR Tech Outlook magazine. “As a widely recognized innovation management solution provider that also offers a powerful diversity and inclusion management platform, we are delighted to select Planbox as one of the Top 10 Employee Engagement Solution Providers – 2018,” said Hanna Wilson, Managing Editor of HR Tech Outlook magaz

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Uppy File Uploading

David Walsh

One of the big tasks I was charged with at my first job was setting up a system by which any customer or potential customer (aka anonymous user) could upload PDF and image files. I had loads of constraints to deal with: browser support, server settings, variance in user tech knowledge, etc. Ultimately we needed to use a Java Applet (!) to get the job done.