Microsoft Excel’s new import functions make handling numbers easier

Excel now supports IMPORTTEXT and IMPORTCSV functions that load external text and CSV files as dynamic arrays, making it ...
How-To Geek on MSN

How to pick a random name from a list in Excel

To pick a random name from an Excel table using a method that works across every version of Excel, this classic combination ...
IEEE

Mining social media data based on Python web crawler technology --Taking Sina Weibo data analysis as an example

Abstract: In the context of the big data era, the extensive penetration of the Internet and the rapid development of database technology have led to an explosive growth in the amount of data generated ...
SiliconANGLE

AI infrastructure startup Firmus raises $327M to build data centers in Australia

Firmus Technologies Pty Ltd., a startup that plans to build a network of artificial intelligence centers in Australia, has raised $327 million from investors. The company announced the funding round ...
CSOonline

Researchers trick ChatGPT into prompt injecting itself

Tenable security researchers have discovered seven new ways to extract private data from chat histories, largely through indirect prompt injections that exploit default ChatGPT features. AI chatbots ...
InfoWorld

Databot: AI-assisted data analysis in R or Python

If you’d like an LLM to act more like a partner than a tool, Databot is an experimental alternative to querychat that also works in both R and Python. Databot is designed to analyze data you’ve ...
ZDNet

How web scraping actually works - and why AI changes everything

Web scraping powers pricing, SEO, security, AI, and research industries. AI scraping threatens site survival by bypassing traffic return. Companies fight back with licensing, paywalls, and crawler ...
InfoQ

Google Launched LangExtract, a Python Library for Structured Data Extraction from Unstructured Text

A monthly overview of things you need to know as an architect or aspiring architect. Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with ...
Wired

A Single Poisoned Document Could Leak ‘Secret’ Data Via ChatGPT

The latest generative AI models are not just stand-alone text-generating chatbots—instead, they can easily be hooked up to your data to give personalized answers to your questions. OpenAI’s ChatGPT ...
marktechpost

Google AI Releases LangExtract: An Open Source Python Library that Extracts Structured Data from Unstructured Text Documents

LangExtract lets users define custom extraction tasks using natural language instructions and high-quality “few-shot” examples. This empowers developers and analysts to specify exactly which entities, ...
UPI

New software makes it easy for Chinese police to extract phone data

July 16 (UPI) --Mobile security company Lookout has found a new system that police departments in China use to extract data from confiscated phones. The software is called Massistant, created by ...