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No escape from AI now – Microsoft is shoving Copilot into every Excel cell
You can now interact with Excel cells in natural language with =COPILOT It doesn’t interact with external data from the web… yet You can combine it with other Excel functions Microsoft is rolling out a new Excel AI function directly into cells, so you can leverage generative AI and tap…
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Why Britain’s £187M skills investment needs to work for everyone, not just students
The UK government just announced £187 million for the TechFirst initiative to embed digital and AI skills in classrooms and communities. It’s a smart move that will pay dividends in the long run. But here’s the problem — we can’t wait 10 years for today’s secondary school students to join…
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The path to European data sovereignty
Back in 2020, the European Parliament published a briefing paper which set out “growing concern that the citizens, businesses and Member States of the European Union (EU) are gradually losing control over their data, over their capacity for innovation, and over their ability to shape and enforce legislation in the…
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AI’s invisible labor is tech’s biggest blind spot
Behind the polished responses of AI platforms lies a lesser-known truth: workers from emerging economies, such as Africa, Latin America, and Asia, were paid less than $2 per hour to sift through graphic and traumatic content to help train their safety systems. This labor practice has sparked global concern, lawsuits,…
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Finally! Future SSDs are set to be more energy efficient and more secure thanks to a new set of guidelines
NVMe 2.3 sets new ground rules which could alter storage behavior across multiple environments Power monitoring shifts focus toward sustainability and careful control in both enterprise and consumer drives Energy capping functions might prevent system stress in older setups that struggle with power draw The NVM Express group has confirmed…
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Bad news – most devs believe AI is going to kill ‘most or all’ of their company’s marketing department
Report finds developers overwhelmingly believe AI can handle marketing tasks once thought secure from automation Stroyblok finds 90% of developers use AI tools frequently or constantly in their coding Heavy AI adoption in coding shapes perceptions that marketing work could also be absorbed A growing number of developers now believe…
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