Collaborate Disseminate
Irish competitor Diarmuid Early, dubbed the “Lebron James of Excel spreadsheets,” has won the 2025 Microsoft Excel World Championship in Las Vegas, dethroning three-time champion Andrew Ngai. The BBC reports: The esport showpiece in December attracted … Continue reading Ireland’s Diarmuid Early Wins World Microsoft Excel Title
A federal judge blocked Texas’ app store age-verification law, ruling it likely violates the First Amendment by forcing platforms to gate speech and collect data in an overly broad way. The law was set to go into effect on January 1, 2026. The Verge re… Continue reading Judge Blocks Texas App Store Age Verification Law
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: CBS cannot contain the online spread of a “60 Minutes” segment that its editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, tried to block from airing. The episode, “Inside CECOT,” featured testimonies from US deportees … Continue reading LimeWire Re-Emerges In Online Rush To Share Pulled ’60 Minutes’ Segment
An anonymous reader shares a report: It’s been more than eight years since Amazon bought Whole Foods, but the two companies still haven’t aligned their setup for the Microsoft software their employees use. That disconnect was flagged in an 8-week Deloi… Continue reading ‘Fragmented’ Microsoft Tools Undercut Efficiency at Amazon and Whole Foods, Internal Deloitte Review Finds
[Distracted by Design] loves gear from the 1980s, though some of it isn’t as useful as it used to be. He happened across a cheap old FM radio with a …read more Continue reading Old FM Radio Upcycled Into Classy Bluetooth Speaker
In the late 1980s, Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary sat on the New York Times best-seller list for 155 consecutive weeks and eventually sold 57 million copies, a figure believed to be second only to the Bible in the United States — but those da… Continue reading Is the Dictionary Done For?
European public institutions are quietly migrating away from American cloud providers and office software, driven less by policy ambitions in Brussels than by the mundane legal reality that GDPR-mandated risk assessments keep flagging the US CLOUD Act … Continue reading Europe’s Public Institutions Are Quietly Ditching US Cloud Providers
Don’t panic: You can continue to fly your drone – for now. Here’s everything we know so far. Continue reading FCC bans DJI drones starting today – here’s what it means for you
An ‘automated attacker’ mimics the actions of human hackers to test the browser’s defenses against prompt injection attacks. But there’s a catch. Continue reading How OpenAI is defending ChatGPT Atlas from attacks now – and why safety’s not guaranteed
An anonymous reader shares a report: Samsung is breaking new ground with its 2026 lineup of gaming monitors, with the Odyssey 3D G90XH becoming the first to feature a 6K display with “glasses-free 3D.” The new monitor comes with a 32-inch IPS panel, of… Continue reading Samsung’s 2026 Gaming Monitors Promise 6K, 3D, and Up To 1,040Hz