The EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), which requires banks, financial services firms and tech vendors to bolster systems against cyberattack, is now in effect. Companies should be proactive given that penalties for breaches under DORA can be as high as 2% of annual global revenue and come with sanctions of up to a million euros.
Cognosphere, publisher of popular free-to-play game Genshin Impact, was charged by the US Federal Trade Commission with mishandling children’s data and violating US law by sharing data with advertisers. The company was deemed to be deceiving players about the cost of in-game transactions. It is known in the US as HoYovers.
If you still think that MCP stands for Male Chauvinist Pig, well, the 1970’s want their disco ball back. Today’s hep cats know that MCP stands for Model Context Protocol, a new-but-widely supported standard that lets large language models access structured data as context for their prompts. Early adopters include Salesforce and Adobe, and search platform Algolia is now using it to feed their data to customer-facing real-time AI agents.