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Excel cells can now hold a whole list of values
Microsoft is testing lists and arrays inside a single cell, plus four new functions to search them.
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Kiteworks asks customers to shut down servers over a possible attack
The file-sharing company says federal authorities warned it that a threat actor may target some of its systems this weekend.
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Kontext raises $4 million to check what AI agents do at work
The Munich startup weighs every action an AI agent tries to take against company policy before it runs.
Business & Startups
Databricks buys Row Zero to put live company data into spreadsheets
The spreadsheet startup handles billions of rows and will plug into Genie, Databricks' AI assistant, for every customer.
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Botnet hides an AI agent inside hijacked Docker servers
Researchers found malware that spreads to unprotected Docker installations and lets an open-source AI agent carry out the operator's orders.
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One attacker used three AI agents to break into 27 companies
Researchers say the campaign stole more than 600,000 payment card records and cost roughly $25 in AI fees per target.
Science
Arctic sea ice ties for 10th-lowest summer minimum since 1978
The minimum came on September 12, and all 20 of the lowest on record have occurred since 2007.
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Dog brains track consonants in speech, just like human brains
Hungarian researchers recorded brain waves from 20 dogs and 20 people, and both picked out words built around consonants more easily.
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KAIST robot dog runs a full marathon on a single battery charge
RAIBO2 covered 42 kilometers in just over four hours and used less energy per kilometer than a human runner.
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Europe's most powerful supercomputer gets European processors
JUPITER in Jülich has started receiving Rhea1 chips from French company SiPearl after running mostly on Nvidia hardware.
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Pulsar's 42-light-year X-ray tail explains mysterious gamma rays
The trail behind PSR J1740+1000 is the longest known and lines up with radiation that had no identified source.
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Perovskite solar cells tuned for seawater work 10 meters down
Cells from Yunnan University capture the blue and green light that reaches that depth and are meant for underwater sensors and robots.