{n}.bora’s Top Articles: 24th July
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Business News:
- Last Monday, Business Insider reported the news that the Chinese economy is faltering, having grown less than expected over the second quarter:
https://www.businessinsider.com/china-economy-crash-recession-growth-retail-sales-inflation-deflation-covid-2023-7?r=US&IR=T - India has banned the export of non-basmati white rise, this BBC News article reports, which could lead to a rise in global food prices:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66260414?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
Technology News:
- Technology companies are clashing with the UK government over a proposed new surveillance law, this BBC News article reports:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-66256081?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA - This Guardian article explores ransomware attacks and how these have developed over the last decade:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/17/ransomware-gangs-companies-cyber-crime-hackers
Advice:
- This article from Entrepreneur gives a good overview of cyber resilience (or ‘an organization’s ability to resist, respond to and recover from cyber threats whilst ensuring the continuity of operations’) for small and medium businesses:
https://www.entrepreneur.com/science-technology/the-importance-of-cyber-resilience-for-small-and-medium/455508 - Sticking with the cybersecurity theme, this blog post from IBM looks at red teaming, or when a team simulates a cybersecurity attack on your organisation:
https://www.ibm.com/blog/red-teaming-101-what-is-red-teaming/ - Rather than focusing on theoretical use cases, this article from the Digital Project Manager gives examples of how PMs are using AI in project management now:
https://thedigitalprojectmanager.com/personal/hacks-productivity/how-project-managers-use-ai-right-now/
AI:
- Meta has announced the launch of their open source large language model Llama 2, this article from TechCrunch reports:
https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/18/meta-releases-llama-2-a-more-helpful-set-of-text-generating-models/ - Less relevant for businesses but still key for understanding AI’s impact on society, this Guardian article looks at how AI generated disinformation may impact next year’s US election:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/19/ai-generated-disinformation-us-elections
Something Great:
- Finally, this article from the World Economic Forum looks at nine different ways robots are helping humans, including search and rescue robots and a robot dog which helps archaeologists at Pompeii:
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/07/robots-ai-help-humans-at-work/
First published by {n}.bora July 24, 2023
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