Gov security in Copilot

Last month US House of Representatives has set a strict ban on congressional staffers' use of Microsoft's, opens new tab Copilot generative AI assistant, Axios

"We recognize that government users have higher security requirements for data. That’s why we announced a roadmap of Microsoft AI tools, like Copilot, that meet federal government security and compliance requirements that we intend to deliver later this year,” a Microsoft spokesperson told Reuters.

The U.S. House's chief administrative office did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.

Ref: https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-congress-bans-staff-use-microsofts-ai-copilot-axios-reports-2024-03-29/

CoPilot short cuts

This week, started using the enterprise version of Microsoft CoPilot AI companion framework.

Foremost important usage factors on short cuts

• Accept suggestions: Tab
• Reject suggestion: Esc
• Open Copilot suggestions panel: Ctrl + Enter (This panel shows up to 10 suggestions)
• Next suggestion: Alt/Option + ]
• Previous suggestion: Alt/Option + [

NYC earthquake

Yday, the earthquake had a preliminary magnitude of 4.8, which lasted several seconds started at 10:23 a.m. 

The earthquake’s epicenter was 3.7 miles (25 miles from my place) southeast of Califon, New Jersey, according to the USGS (United States Geological Survey).

More than 120,000 responses poured into the USGS’s “Did You Feel It?” tool. Many of those were from reports in densely populated New York City, Boston and Philadelphia.

USGS figures indicate that the quake might have been felt by more than 42 million people.