Microsoft Copilot can now handle more of your finance work in Excel with reusable skills and data connectors

Microsoft added reusable Skills, new financial data connectors, and traceability features to Copilot in Excel, built specifically for finance teams.
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These 5 Python libraries turned me into a better data analyst than Excel ever could

While Excel is ubiquitous, I prefer Python for my data analysis. Spreadsheets are great for formatting data, but it's Python that's allowed me to build my own super calculator out of regular Python ...
Ars Technica

FBI seeks US-wide access to license plate cameras, wants “data in near real time”

The Federal Bureau of Investigation announced plans to buy nationwide access to a network of license plate readers, saying it will award contracts to one or more vendors that can offer “near real time ...
Bleeping Computer

McGraw-Hill confirms data breach following extortion threat

Education company McGraw-Hill has confirmed in a statement to BleepingComputer that hackers exploited a Salesforce misconfiguration and accessed its internal data. The company assured that the breach ...
Nextgov

Appeals court removes limits on DOGE access to SSA data despite ‘alarming’ revelations

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. A federal appeals court vacated a court order limiting the Department of Government Efficiency’s access to sensitive data at the Social ...
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iPhone privacy report: How to check which apps are tracking you and accessing your data

A built-in iPhone tool called the App Privacy Report shows which apps are accessing your camera, contacts, location, and microphone — and how often. Here's how to ...
KING5

UW researchers: Federal immigration enforcement still accessing Washington driver data

SEATTLE — Researchers at the University of Washington's Center for Human Rights say federal immigration agents are continuing to access Washington state driver and vehicle data to make arrests, ...
WSHU news

CT joins federal lawsuit to block DOJ from accessing voters’ data

A Connecticut voter has joined a federal lawsuit against the Department of Justice to prevent it from accessing voters’ personal data from the nonpublic voter file. The American Civil Liberties Union ...
Mercury News

San Jose latest city to face questions whether federal authorities are accessing police license plate camera data

San Jose police allowed other California police agencies as recently as last June to search data from its vast network of automatic license plate reading cameras on apparent behalf of federal ...
KOIN 6

Oregon lawmakers join call to block ICE from accessing DMV data

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A group of Oregon lawmakers are joining an effort to block federal immigration authorities from accessing Department of Motor Vehicles’ state databases. On Wednesday, a group ...
The Verge

Democratic members of Congress are urging governors to block ICE from accessing their states’ DMV data.

A group of 40 lawmakers sent out letters today warning 19 Democratic governors that they might be unknowingly sharing DMV data with ICE and Homeland Security through a platform called Nlets, as ...