How to create a drop-down list in Excel in seconds - and save yourself tons of time

Drop-down lists in Excel are a great way to speed up data entry, keep your sheet tidy, and avoid typos. No formulas required!
How-To Geek on MSN

How to use the BYCOL function in Microsoft Excel

Upgrade your spreadsheets with BYCOL to consolidate column logic, prevent manual errors, and build automated reporting dashboards.
Wired

You’re Thinking About AI and Water All Wrong

Fears about AI data centers’ water use have exploded. Experts say the reality is far more complicated than people think. When I called him to talk more about AI and water, Masley emphasized that he’s ...
VentureBeat

AI coding transforms data engineering: How dltHub's open-source Python library helps developers create data pipelines for AI in minutes

Credit: Image generated by VentureBeat with FLUX-pro-1.1-ultra A quiet revolution is reshaping enterprise data engineering. Python developers are building production data pipelines in minutes using ...
Pew Research Center

What we know about energy use at U.S. data centers amid the AI boom

Artificial intelligence has developed rapidly in recent years, with tech companies investing billions of dollars in data centers to help train and run AI models. The expansion of data centers has ...
Wired

Anthropic Will Use Claude Chats for Training Data. Here’s How to Opt Out

Anthropic is starting to train its models on new Claude chats. If you’re using the bot and don’t want your chats used as training data, here’s how to opt out. Anthropic is prepared to repurpose ...
ZDNet

Microsoft just added AI agents to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint - how to use them

Microsoft has launched AI agents for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. The agents are available for business and individual subscribers. Now accessible on the web, the agents will expand to the desktop.
Bleeping Computer

NPM package caught using QR Code to fetch cookie-stealing malware

Newly discovered npm package 'fezbox' employs QR codes to retrieve cookie-stealing malware from the threat actor's server. The package, masquerading as a utility library, leverages this innovative ...
Center for American Progress

The Trump Administration Is Using Americans’ Sensitive Data To Build a Digital Watchtower

The Trump administration’s abusive efforts to repurpose millions of federal records and funnel them into a centralized government database represent a systemic shift toward a consolidation of ...
InfoWorld

Use UV to run Python packages and programs without installing

Astral's uv utility simplifies and speeds up working with Python virtual environments. But it has some other superpowers, too: it lets you run Python packages and programs without having to formally ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

How Are Students Really Using AI?

After two and a half years we have enough data to form a clearer picture about who is using AI, what they are using it for, what they think about it, and what it means for learning. What do students ...