Two ways to automate Excel aggregation with M365 Copilot: Aggregation that failed after dozens of attempts with VBA worked on the first try with Python

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When I thought 'Not this transcription again', I had AI make it for me—5 steps to get business tools even if you can't write code

Are you doing the same transcription every month?Picking up numbers from multiple files and pasting them into another table.
shattered.io

Apex Legends Weapon Tier List: 30 Guns, 12 Steps [2026]

Build a Python tool that scores every Apex Legends weapon by TTK and ammo economy, then sorts them into an S-D tier list for ...
xenospectrum

Jailbroken PS5 Runs a 27B AI Model at About 20 Tokens per Second, but Long Prompts Mean Long Waits

A developer of PS5LM Plus reports running a 27B model on a jailbroken PS5 at roughly 20 tokens per second. We look at the GPU ...
shattered.io

Build an Apex Legends Season 29 Tier List: 12 Steps [2026]

Build your own Apex Legends Season 29 Overclocked tier list with a 12-step Python scoring method covering Axle, patch 29.1, ...
Microsoft

The hidden network: Inside the phishing infrastructure ecosystem powering global cybercrime

Microsoft uncovered a Chinese-language cybercriminal ecosystem, an interconnected network of phishing kit operators (tracked ...
OMG! Ubuntu

Ubuntu 26.10 is out with GNOME 51, Linux 7.3 & new tiling trick

Ubuntu 26.10 is out today with a faster way to tile windows, passkey sign-in on the login screen and a full set of Rust-based ...
Digital Production

RenderJuice Contest: $5,000 for Speedy Blender Animators

RenderJuice's free Blender Speed contest offers $5,000 in prizes for 5–30 second animations. Entries run October 15–31, 2026.
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Ancient Greek Oak Survived a Megafire – Its Leaves Now Tell Scientists How

A first quantitative leaf morphometric study of Greece's only endemic oak reveals stable leaf shape but striking size ...
LAist

Bargain bottles of wine

The star-studded Los Angeles Dodgers, so used to winning year after year, find themselves in unfamiliar territory lately — on ...
xenospectrum

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Update Tops Claude Opus 5 on Code-Fixing Benchmark at Unchanged Pricing

DeepSeek updated V4.1 Flash on October 17. We look at 11 official benchmarks against the previous version and four rivals, ...
InfoQ

Google Adopts Pyrefly for Faster, More Accurate Python Type Checking

Google has replaced its long-standing Python type checker, Pytype, with Pyrefly, an open-source tool originally developed by Meta. The decision was driven by Pyrefly's advantages, including faster and ...