JournalofAccountancy

Using Excel’s TEXTBEFORE AND TEXTAFTER functions to easily tame messy data

Q. How do the TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions in Excel work? A. Excel’s TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions allow users to quickly split up text in ways that used to require combinations of ...
ZDNet

Claude can integrate with Excel now - and gets 7 new connectors

Anthropic's Claude chatbot just got a suite of finance updates. Claude can draft financial reports, access new data, and more. AI is playing an increasingly central role in the financial sector.
Forbes

How Starbucks Is Using Data And AI To Deliver Joy And Connection To Its Customers

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Randy Bean is a noted Senior Advisor, Author, Speaker, Founder, & CEO. How does a venerable American brand known for creating the ...
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 ...
PC Gamer

Microsoft launches Copilot AI function in Excel, but warns not to use it in 'any task requiring accuracy or reproducibility'

Certain Windows 365 Copilot users now have access to a new feature in Excel that lets you use Microsoft's Copilot AI to generate formulas, but you might want to be careful how you use it. Microsoft is ...
HotHardware

AMD Data Center Server Market Share Hits New High, Desktop Chips Away At Intel Too

The once heavily lopsided rivalry between AMD and Intel in pursuit of market share and the revenue that comes with it has become a much more tightly contested battle. Case in point, AMD sent us a ...
POWER Magazine

Data Centers Can Be a Flexible Power Load-Here’s Why That Matters

Across the U.S., new AI-driven data centers are causing a significant increase in power demand. Carbon Direct projects that data center capacity in the U.S. will grow from roughly 25 GW in 2024 to 120 ...
Reuters

Microsoft says some SharePoint server hackers now using ransomware

WASHINGTON, July 23 (Reuters) - A cyber-espionage campaign centered on vulnerable versions of Microsoft's (MSFT.O), opens new tab server software now involves the deployment of ransomware, Microsoft ...
The New York Times

Their Water Taps Ran Dry When Meta Built Next Door

In the race to develop artificial intelligence, tech giants are building data centers that guzzle up water. That has led to problems for people who live nearby. In the race to develop artificial ...
TechRepublic

Patch Tuesday: Microsoft Addresses 137 Vulnerabilities, Including High-Severity SQL Server RCE

Patch Tuesday: Microsoft Addresses 137 Vulnerabilities, Including High-Severity SQL Server RCE Your email has been sent Two SQL Server vulnerabilities raise concerns for data exposure and remote code ...
Forbes

How Visa Is Using Data And AI To Transform The Digital Payments Industry

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Randy Bean is a noted Senior Advisor, Author, Speaker, Founder, & CEO. Visa (NYSE: V), a world leader in digital payments, is ...