The US Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) introduces new cybersecurity rules for public companies. To safeguard data and ensure third-party compliance, the SEC is mandating that companies disclose cybersecurity events in a transparent, prompt, and comprehensive manner. A primary reason is to ensure investors are kept apprised of incidents to enable them to make informed decisions and to safeguard financial interests.
The New York Times changed its terms of service to protect against use of its content for AI training. The change prohibits use of “robots, spiders, scripts, service, software or any manual or automatic device, tool, or process designed to data mine or scrape” its content. This follows a similar move last week by Microsoft.
The UK children’s charity, the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) has found an 82% rise in online grooming against children over the last five years, with 73% coming through Snapchat and Meta. One in four incidents were against primary school children and, where gender was known, 83% of the actions were against girls.
Stick with me here: what if you didn’t have to write good generative AI prompts, but could instead write a prompt that would prompt you to write a better prompt? If your head hasn’t exploded yet, that seems to be the idea behind new auto-complete and rewrite features in Copilot AI for Microsoft 365. Of course, there’s a YouTube video showing how.