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9 time-saving Excel shortcuts that most cheat sheets miss

Power users rely on these lesser-known Excel shortcuts to work faster across large datasets, formulas, and worksheets.
VentureBeat

Anthropic gives Claude shared context across Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, enabling reusable workflows in multiple applications

Anthropic has upgraded its Claude AI model with new capabilities for Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, marking a strategic move to expand its enterprise footprint and potentially challenging Microsoft’s ...
Windows Central

Notepad is slowly becoming Microsoft's version of Apple's "Notes" app, complete with image support and rich text — but should it?

Notepad has slowly gained a plethora of features that elevate it way beyond a basic text editor, now rivaling the likes of Apple Notes and Google Keep. But is Microsoft right to do this? When you ...
Futurism

Microsoft Added AI to Notepad and It Created a Security Failure Because the AI Was Stupidly Easy for Hackers to Trick

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Reuters

Chinese AI startup Zhipu hikes prices for coding plan as demand rises

BEIJING, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Chinese artificial intelligence startup Zhipu on Thursday said it was raising prices for subscriptions to its GLM coding plan to accommodate a rapid increase in users ...
PC World

Windows Notepad is now complex enough to have a serious security flaw

PCWorld reports that Windows Notepad’s new Markdown support feature has introduced a serious remote code execution vulnerability with a high CVSS score of 8.8/7.7. The security flaw allows malicious ...
Ars Technica

Notepad++ users take note: It’s time to check if you’re hacked

Infrastructure delivering updates for Notepad++—a widely used text editor for Windows—was compromised for six months by suspected China-state hackers who used their control to deliver backdoored ...
TechCrunch

China’s Moonshot releases a new open source model Kimi K2.5 and a coding agent

China’s Moonshot AI, which is backed by the likes of Alibaba and HongShan (formerly Sequoia China), today released a new open source model, Kimi K2.5, which understands text, image, and video. The ...
Neowin

Microsoft updates Notepad with more formatting tools, Paint gets more AI

Microsoft is adding more stuff to some of Windows 11's inbox apps. This time, Notepad and Paint get new features, including new formatting tools, AI, and more. Microsoft has no new Windows 11 preview ...
Popular Science

A desktop AI with no monthly fees is on sale for 60% off

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Yahoo

Beyoncé trolls Kelly Rowland with a hilarious “Excel text” throwback from “Dilemma”

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Beyoncé gave new life to Kelly Rowland’s infamous “Excel text” in a playful Instagram post referencing the 2002 “Dilemma” video.
Engadget

Anthropic's Opus 4.5 model is here to conquer Microsoft Excel

An illustration Anthropic commissioned to mark the release of Opus 4.5. (Anthropic) Hot on the heels of Google's Gemini 3 Pro release, Anthropic has announced an update for its flagship Opus model.