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A warrantless wiretap law is about to expire — but surveillance networks aren’t actually ‘going dark’
Congress has failed to pass a three-week extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), with the House voting 218-198 against reauthorizing the controversial warrantless wiretapping authority through July 2nd. After a short-term extension earlier this year, the spying program now appears set to lapse for at least a week. This is the nightmare scenario FISA's proponents have been warning about - but it doesn't actually mean the US has lost its surveillance capabilit
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GitHub Agentic Workflows is now in public preview
GitHub Agentic Workflows is now in public preview. With agentic workflows, you can automate reasoning-based tasks like issue triage, CI failure analysis, and documentation updates by leveraging coding agents inside… The post GitHub Agentic Workflows is now in public preview appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Transform dashboards into interactive data experiences with Looker agents
Dashboards have long served as a primary way for organizations to extract insights from data, but they can fall short in agile environments: Dashboards aren’t interactive and don’t allow you to ask follow-up questions. This forces users to step outside their workflows or turn to data analysts to get the answers they need. Today, we are introducing Looker dashboard agents in preview, embedding intelligent, conversational data agents directly within dashboards and empowering users to explore their
Making secret scanning more trustworthy: Reducing false positives at scale
Alerts are more trustworthy and actionable when noise is reduced. See how we improved the verification step with context-aware LLM reasoning. The post Making secret scanning more trustworthy: Reducing false positives at scale appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
If You Can Survive a Toddler, You Can Ship LLMs in Production
A few years back, I was running a time-series pipeline that scored incoming product reviews on a 1-10 scale. The scorer was an LLM. Reviews rolled in continuously, ratings flowed into a dashboard the product team checked every Monday morning. Everything ran clean for months. Then one Monday, the chart had a step in it. Reviews from the prior week averaged 6.4. The current week averaged 7.6. Same product. Same customers. The reviews themselves, when I went back to read them, looked indistinguisha
Waymo introduces $30-a-month premium tier for riders who want faster pickups
Uber One, meet Waymo Premier. The robotaxi operator announced a new $29.99-a-month premium tier for riders who want a more elevated and exclusive autonomous experience. The invite-only membership service is aimed at Waymo customers who use the service most frequently, offering them a number of perks, including priority pickups, 10 percent cash back on every trip, early robotaxi access in new cities, and up to five free cancellations a month. Waymo Premier will be initially offered to select ri
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