{n}.bora's Top Articles: 13th November
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This week’s articles include enforcing the UK’s new Online Safety Act, an introduction to agile project planning, and the Bletchley Declaration on AI. As always, we can provide advice on the topics raised, so please don’t hesitate to get in touch.
Business:
- This Boston Consulting Group blog post explores the idea of change aversion and how this needs to be overcome in order to successfully implement business transformations:
https://www.bcg.com/publications/2023/how-change-aversion-can-derail-transformation
Technology:
- Ofcom has released guidance on how it will enforce the UK’s new Online Safety Act, making sure that websites and technology platforms with UK users follow specific new rules:
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/uk-online-safety-regulation-ofcom
Advice:
- This IBM article provides a good overview of different types of malware and gives a history of the technology:
https://www.ibm.com/blog/malware-history/ - Providing a comprehensive explanation as well as discussing its benefits, this Digital Project Manager article looks at agile project planning:
https://thedigitalprojectmanager.com/projects/pm-methodology/agile-planning/
AI:
- This article from the Next Web discusses the Bletchley Declaration, signed by 28 countries at the UK’s Safety Summit to agree the dangers and opportunities of AI:
https://thenextweb.com/news/ai-safety-summit-bletchley-declaration-concerns
Something Great:
- This Guardian article looks at how AI is being used to decipher the body language of cats and other animals:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/nov/04/scientists-turn-to-ai-for-help-translate-animal-vocal-physical-cues