This obscure Microsoft Excel tool imports PDF data without mangling it

In the top menu of Excel select Data > Get Data > From File > From PDF. Browse your files and select the PDF with the table ...

8 New Excel AI Features : So Powerful You’ll Never Look at Spreadsheets the Same Way

Explore Excel’s new AI-powered tools and productivity features in the Fall 2025 update. Smarter, faster, and more intuitive ...
MrExcel on MSN

Excel Magic: Solving the 148-Location Route Problem Step-by-Step

If you use Excel 40 hours a week (and those are the weeks you are on vacation), welcome to the MrExcel channel. Home to 2,400 ...
TechCrunch

What’s behind the massive AI data center headlines?

Silicon Valley flooded the news this week with headlines about wild AI infrastructure investments. Nvidia said it would invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI. Then OpenAI said it would build out five ...
TechCrunch

Google makes real-world data more accessible to AI — and training pipelines will love it

Google is turning its vast public data trove into a goldmine for AI with the debut of the Data Commons Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server — enabling developers, data scientists, and AI agents to ...
MacRumors

UK Government Issues New Order to Access iCloud User Data

The UK government has issued a new request for Apple to provide access to encrypted iCloud user data, the Financial Times reports. The report reveals that, in early September, the UK Home Office ...
Ars Technica

With new agent mode for Excel and Word, Microsoft touts “vibe working”

With a new set of Microsoft 365 features, knowledge workers will be able to generate complex Word documents or Excel spreadsheets using only text prompts to Microsoft’s chatbot. Two distinct products ...
The New York Times

For Trump, Data Is Often ‘Phony,’ Unless It Supports His Views

A White House spokeswoman said on Wednesday that the president was “committed to ensuring Americans have access to accurate and reliable public data,” and had called out shortcomings in government ...
Futurism

OpenAI’s New Data Centers Will Draw More Power Than the Entirety of New York City, Sam Altman Says

Earlier this week, OpenAI announced a “strategic partnership” with AI chipmaker Nvidia in which the duo of tech giants will build and deploy upwards of 10 gigawatts of AI data centers. Nvidia will ...
Fox Business

Partisan standoff threatens crucial economic data, leaving Fed — and families — in the dark

As Washington’s partisan standoff deepens, the Labor Department is preparing for a potential halt in economic data if there is a partial government shutdown. The timing is especially sensitive. This ...
Fox Business

Fed's Goolsbee says central bank has other data options if shutdown disrupts economic reports

Chicago Federal Reserve President Austan Goolsbee said Tuesday the central bank will look at alternate data sources to consider at its October meeting if upcoming economic data is not released as ...
CNN

Nursery hackers delete children’s data following backlash, UK media reports

Hackers who stole the data of more than 8,000 children including photos, addresses and names and published some of the information on the dark web have removed the posts online and claim to have ...