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I replaced Excel's PivotTables with this extremely overpowered tool and haven’t looked back

To activate Power Pivot, go to File > Options, click Add-ins, select COM Add-ins from the dropdown, and check the box for ...
The New York Times

DOGE Put Critical Social Security Data at Risk, Whistle-Blower Says

DOGE team members uploaded a database with the personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans to a vulnerable cloud server, according to the agency’s chief data officer. By Nicholas Nehamas ...
ZDNet

Excel's new Copilot function turns your prompts into formulas - how to try it

A new COPILOT function in Excel lets you use AI in a formula. The new skill is now available to Microsoft 365 insiders. Reduces some of the complexity involved in creating formulas. Get more in-depth ...
Forbes

U.K. Backs Down Over Backdoor Access To Worldwide Apple User Data

A message on an iPhone in London warning that Apple can no longer offer Advanced Data Protection (ADP) to its customers in the UK. (Photo by Yui Mok/PA Images via Getty Images) In an embarrassing ...
SDxCentral

Oracle unveils distributed database to boost agentic AI, data sovereignty

Oracle has unveiled its latest database offering it claims will enhance agentic AI deployments and help with data sovereignty demands. The Oracle Globally Distributed Exadata Database on Exascale ...
CBS News

Top tech companies to work with Trump administration on improving health care data access for older, disabled Americans

Olivia Rinaldi is a White House reporter at CBS News. She covered President Trump's 2024 presidential campaign and was previously an associate producer for "CBS Evening News with Norah O'Donnell" and ...
The Hill

ICE will soon have nation’s Medicaid data: What to know

Agreement will allow ICE officials access to 79M patients' data Information includes addresses, racial information and more Opponents concerned over data privacy, civil rights issues Agreement will ...
Wired

ICE Is Getting Unprecedented Access to Medicaid Data

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials are getting access to the personal data of nearly 80 million people on Medicaid in order to acquire "information concerning the identification and ...
The New York Times

Justices Grant DOGE Access to Social Security Data and Let the Team Shield Records

As Elon Musk leaves Washington, the team he formed to ferret out waste and abuse won dual victories in the Supreme Court. By Adam Liptak and Abbie VanSickle Reporting from Washington The Supreme Court ...
TechCrunch

Collibra acquires data access startup Raito

Collibra, a data governance platform based in Brussels, is the latest enterprise to acquire a data company in order to expand its offerings in the age of AI. On Thursday, Collibra announced its ...
CSOonline

Hackers use Vishing to breach Salesforce customers and swipe data

In an active campaign, a financially motivated threat actor is voice phishing (Vishing) Salesforce customers to compromise their organizational data and carry out subsequent extortion. Tracked as ...