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Microsoft released copilot in Excel, and it is officially caught up with Google on the AI race.

Fantastic to watch.

"China’s DeepSeek stole what we have stolen" cried OpenAI executives.

End of the story.

I remember when Google embedding unit conversions in search was a cute little convenience. And, uh, actually useful and accurate. This is just so embarrassing for a once-great tool.
EDIT: ht to @smallcircles, the artist is Anton Gudim and this is their Patreon https://www.patreon.com/gudim
EDIT2: aka @[email protected] as per comments below.
*KICKS DOOR DOWN*

Hey everyone! Hate AI web crawlers? Have some spare CPU cycles you want to use to punish them?

Meet Nepenthes!

https://zadzmo.org/code/nepenthes

This little guy runs nicely on low power hardware, and generates an infinite maze of what appear to be static files with no exit links. Web crawlers will merrily hop right in and just .... get stuck in there! Optional randomized delay to waste their time and conserve your CPU, optional markovbabble to poison large language models.
Nepenthes - ZADZMO.org

Making web crawlers eat shit since 2023

Somebody could defuse this whole Greenland obsession by explaining the Mercator projection to Trump.
Panoramax OSM-FR - photo-cartographier les territoires

L'instance Panoramax d'OpenStreetMap France, permet la publication de photos de terrain pour cartographie les territoires.

We just hit 800k cell towers?!? This jump in new cell towers being discovered is actually crazy. Thanks everyone ❤️

Graph by @pinguin: https://beacondb.derpingu.in/cell.svg

*drops an abomination into the room and runs away*

From Daniel Feldman (dfeldman.org) on Bluesky.

#Direct Emmanuel Macron annonce la mise en place d’un numéro vert destiné à « expliquer la dissolution » à tous ceux qui refusent de la comprendre.