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• After 40 Years, Microsoft Excel Will Add Single-Cell Lists and Arrays

  26-09-2026 22:34 via slashdot.org
  Microsoft's senior product manager for Excel acknowledges that "Throughout Excel's 40-year history, you've only been able to put one value per cell." But that's now changing with arrays in cells (as well as nested arrays) and lists."You can create a list by selecting Insert > List or pressing Ctrl+J, then typing or pasting items separated by commas or semicolons, depending on your regional settings. Selecting the icon in the cell shows the individual values...""With lists, you can filter by o
  
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• AI Finds So Many Linux Bugs, Canonical Changes to a Two-Week Stable Release Update Cycle

  26-09-2026 18:04 via news.slashdot.org
  "Finding vulnerabilities faster also puts pressure on Linux distributions to fix and deliver patches faster," writes Slashdot reader BrianFagioli
  AI has transformed bug discovery from "a manual, time-intensive process into a highly automated engine," notes Canonical's blog, leading to a "recent explosion in the volume of CVEs".
  Additionally, the upstream kernel community became its own CVE Numbering Authority (CNA) and assigned CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) identifiers to thousands
  
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• Is Microsoft Quietly Killing Off Its 'Copilot+ PC' Brand?

  26-09-2026 13:34 via tech.slashdot.org
  "Copilot+ PCs" were Microsoft's official branding for Windows 11 "AI PCs" that met their system requirements. But the 2024 launch "didn't go smoothly," writes Windows Central, after security researchers discovered its proposed "Recall" feature was woefully insecure:This pretty much tarnished the Copilot+ PC brand, and over the last two years more and more OEMs have dropped the moniker from marketing materials and product names. In fact, even Microsoft has seemingly stopped mentioning it. I've no
  
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• Rogue OpenAI Agents Posted 53 User-Uploaded Images Onto the Internet, Accessed US Government Websites

  26-09-2026 09:04 via slashdot.org
  53 images that users uploaded into OpenAI models were included in training data — and then AI agents in an OpenAI research environment posted those 53 images on public image hosting sites.While posted as links that weren't publicly listed, "the images could still be discovered even if the links were not publicly listed," reports TechCrunch:OpenAI said it was working with the hosting providers to remove this content, though some of it is apparently still online. OpenAI said it could not not
  
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• Meta Made 43M Misleading Statements, New Mexico Jury Finds, Including on Its Cambridge Analytica Response

  26-09-2026 04:34 via tech.slashdot.org
  A New Mexico jury on Friday "found Facebook liable for deceiving users" about its privacy protections, reports the Associated Press.
  A New Mexico newspaper calls it "another massive legal victory" against Facebook, reporting that the jury found Facebook "had committed tens of millions of violations of the state's Unfair Practices Act in connection with its lies to consumers about how their personal information was handled by the company and third-party users."The state has asked the company be o
  
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• There's a New Way to Break RSA Encryption

  26-09-2026 00:04 via it.slashdot.org
  "Signature forgery." It's a new way to break RSA keys — and it doesn't require factoring. Ars Technica reports on new research using classical computing to "reduce the current RSA security level to an unacceptably low threshold" and lower the required computing resources by orders of magnitude.There's "a gap in current RSA-type security assumptions," according to a paper co-authored by University of California, San Diego professor Nadia Heninger, who argues that gap "gives classical crypta
  
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