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 In this article, based on a talk at QCon San Francisco 2024, author Mandy Gu shares some of the ways her company uses GenAI to enhance productivity and the lessons they learned along the way, including failed bets and features that were rolled back because of low user adoption. Most important, they learned to focus on building tools that were aligned with business goals. (Article) |
 This article will cover two common attack vectors against large language models and tools based on them, prompt injection and prompt stealing. We will additionally introduce three approaches to make your LLM-based systems and tools less vulnerable to this kind of attacks and review their benefits and limitations, including fine-tuning, adversarial detectors, and system prompt hardening. (Article) |
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| AWS enhances Amazon EventBridge, enabling direct event delivery across accounts. This feature simplifies architecture, boosts security, and reduces latency, allowing seamless routing of events to AWS services like SQS and Lambda. Leverage fine-grained IAM control for streamlined event sourcing. Discover more about this transformative update on AWS documentation and GitHub. (News) |
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| Data contracts define the interface between data providers and consumers, specifying things like data models, quality guarantees, and ownership. They are essential for distributed data ownership in data mesh, ensuring data is discoverable, interoperable, and governed. Data contracts improve communication between teams and enhance the reliability and quality of data products. (News) |
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