The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Contextual and Multi-armed Bandits enable faster and adaptive alternatives to traditional A/B Testing. Broadly speaking, these approaches can be seen as a stepping stone to full-on Reinforcement Learning (RL) with closed-loop, on-policy evaluation and model objectives tied to reward functions.

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) introduced a bill requiring “companies to assess the algorithms that process consumer data to examine their impact on accuracy, fairness, bias, discrimination, privacy, and security.” The White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy recently published the Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Department of Justice's Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Security Policy. The AWS GovCloud (US) environments also conform to commercial security and privacy standards such as: Healthcare Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Department of Defense (DoD) Impact Levels 2, 4, and 5.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

Our data teams also invest in building more transparency around our security and privacy to support progress in reducing threats and hazards faced by our micro-services or internal stakeholders. Can we adjust our auto-scaling policies to be more efficiency without risking our availability during traffic spikes?

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Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

Apple's Long-Standing Policies Are Anti-Diversity "WebKit couldn't compete if it had to." Apple's Long-Standing Policies Are Anti-Diversity #. A refresher on Apple's iOS browser policies: From iOS 2.0 A refresher on Apple's iOS browser policies: From iOS 2.0 A slightly different UI ? Or so the theory goes.

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The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

These deceptive practices allow developers to access users’ private data without consent, undermining user privacy and giving rise to both legal and ethical concerns. This, of course, positions privacy as a luxury good… Finding apps that leak data. Side-channels are typically an unintentional consequence of a complicated system.

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ScaleOut Software

JULY 11, 2020

This technique enables participants to log interactions with others so that they can discover if they are in a chain of contacts originating with someone, often a stranger, who subsequently tests positive for the virus. This is accomplished in advance of a positive test, enabling immediate notifications when the need arises.

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ScaleOut Software

JULY 11, 2020

This technique enables participants to log interactions with others so that they can discover if they are in a chain of contacts originating with someone, often a stranger, who subsequently tests positive for the virus. This is accomplished in advance of a positive test, enabling immediate notifications when the need arises.

Airlines 52

Airlines Retail Mobile Technology 52

ScaleOut Software

JULY 11, 2020

This technique enables participants to log interactions with others so that they can discover if they are in a chain of contacts originating with someone, often a stranger, who subsequently tests positive for the virus. This is accomplished in advance of a positive test, enabling immediate notifications when the need arises.

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Airlines Retail Mobile Technology 52

The Agile Manager

MAY 31, 2020

The Wall Street Journal also reported that some employers are looking at limiting the number of employees in the office on any given day as a permanent policy. Testing, treatments and analytics may result in far less draconian methods of containment. Little or none of this may come to pass, of course.

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In enterprises, we’ve seen everything from wholesale adoption to policies that severely restrict or even forbid the use of generative AI. Unexpected outcomes, security, safety, fairness and bias, and privacy are the biggest risks for which adopters are testing. Another piece of the same puzzle is the lack of a policy for AI use.

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Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

Data stewardship also means protecting people’s privacy, safeguarding against breaches, and adhering to regulations and standards such as the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the United States’ Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), and the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).

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Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Engine diversity is essential, as it is the mechanism that causes competition to deliver better performance, capability, privacy, security, and user controls. To recap: Users can freely choose desktop browsers with differing features, search engines, privacy and security attributes, and underlying engines. PWA Feature Detector.

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Testlodge

JUNE 16, 2021

One such specialized technique is penetration testing, which aims to detect any loophole in the system through which an attacker can gain access and steal critical data, which ultimately causes businesses to suffer monetary losses and lose customers to competitors. An Introduction to Penetration Testing.

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Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Deep in the sub-basement of Apple's tower of tomfoolery are APIs and policies that purport to enable browser engine choice. Even if you believe (as I do) their obligations attached back in September, there's at least an argument to be tested. Homescreen web apps will be demoted to tabs in the default browser. A recitation of facts.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2021

As seen in the discussions about privacy at Facebook and AI-powered imaging at Google among other examples, when there are no ethical considerations during the creation of technology then the interaction between humans is compromised. This not only applies to how companies do business but how they conduct research as well! Are you storing it?

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Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

How does Apple justify such a policy ? The purpose of this rule is to protect user privacy and security. Nefarious websites have analysed other web browser engines and found flaws that have not been disclosed, and exploit those flaws when a user goes to a particular website to silently violate user privacy or security.

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Testsigma

OCTOBER 16, 2020

With companies shifting their tools and platforms from on-premise to cloud-based solutions, there is no doubt the future belongs to the SaaS test automation platforms. Ensuring data privacy and other major security concerns 4. With SaaS, you don’t need to invest in internal infrastructure. Checking that it has proper certifications 3.

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Misdirections often derail the debate around browsers, the role of the web, and App Store policies on iOS. Lastly, while this post does measure the distance Safari lags, let nobody mistake that for the core concern: iOS App Store policies that prevent meaningful browser competition are at issue here. Steve & Tim's Close-up Magic.

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O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Almost every company has undertaken AI projects, including companies that, at least on the face of it, have “no AI” policies. led to GPT-4 and multimodal GPT-4V, and OpenAI has announced an Enterprise service with better guarantees for security and privacy. Respecting customers’ privacy. Respecting customer privacy.

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O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

Swift Papers felt like a well-scoped project to test how well AI handles a realistic yet manageable real-world programming task. This choice also inspired me to call my project Swift Papers. webpack’s default settings not being compatible with the security restrictions of my extension’s Manifest v3 format.

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Selenium , the first tool for automated browser testing (2004), could be programmed to find fields on a web page, click on them or insert text, click “submit,” scrape the resulting web page, and collect results. But the core of the process is simple, and hasn’t changed much since the early days of web testing. What’s required?

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

This explains the challenges involved in deploying and testing HTTP/3 yourself. In our own early tests , I found seriously diminishing returns at about 40 files. Firewalls can’t just use the QUIC CIDs, because they also change over time to protect users’ privacy! This is more in-depth and technical. Additional Issues.

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Audits are usually more official, tracking adherence to some policy, regulation, or law, and tend to be conducted by independent third parties with varying degrees of limited interaction between auditor and auditee organizations. t -, x 2 -, binomial z -, or Fisher’s exact tests). Assessments tend to be more informal and cooperative.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Testing And Monitoring Auditing workflow, proxy browsers, 404 page, GDPR cookie consent prompts, performance diagnostics CSS, accessibility. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing. Now you have something measurable to test against. Quick Wins. Download The Checklist (PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Testing And Monitoring. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing. Alternatively, you can also use Speed Scorecard (also provides a revenue impact estimator), Real User Experience Test Comparison or SiteSpeed CI (based on synthetic testing). Now you have something measurable to test against.

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