How-To Geek on MSN

I install these 9 Python tools on every new machine

These are my go-to libraries for Python data crunching.
GitHub

XLIDE: VBA for VS Code

XLIDE gives Excel VBA projects a modern VS Code workspace. Add one or more .xlsm, .xlsb, or .xlam workbooks to your VS Code project and XLIDE detects them automatically. Navigate each workbook's VBA ...
How-To Geek on MSN

These 5 Python libraries turned me into a better data analyst than Excel ever could

The power of Python trumps Excel workbooks.
VentureBeat

Anthropic says 80% of its new production code is now authored by Claude — how your enterprise can keep up

Credit: VentureBeat made with OpenAI ChatGPT-Images-2.0 Anthropic co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei said it was coming, but it still feels like a milestone: More than 80% of the code merged into ...
The Next Web

Microsoft’s quiet Claude Code retreat and the real cost of enterprise AI

In December of last year, Microsoft told thousands of its engineers, product managers and designers that they could use Claude Code, Anthropic’s command-line coding agent, on the company dime. By ...
PC Magazine

Want to Vibe Code? Use ChatGPT Instead of Claude

I vibe coded with both Claude and ChatGPT, and the latter is just the better tool right now. It causes fewer headaches and generates more reliable results. I’ve been writing about consumer technology ...
Nature

How to vibe code in science: early adopters share their tips

Nicola Jones is a freelance writer in Pemberton, Canada. Last year, climate researcher Zeke Hausfather was playing around with climate-data visualizations, trying to find new and shocking ways to show ...
JournalofAccountancy

Use Excel to automate financial statement analysis

Q. I often perform horizontal, vertical, and trend analysis for clients. Each time revised financial statements arrive, I find myself recreating formulas, rechecking ranges, and confirming that ...
Visual Studio Magazine

VS Code Curbs Token Use Ahead of Copilot's Controversial Usage-Based Billing Switch

VS Code 1.118 ships a suite of token efficiency features -- including prompt caching with 93% reuse rates and a tool search tool with up to 20% token savings -- just two days after GitHub's ...
Los Angeles Times

Anthropic accidentally leaked thousands of lines of code

Anthropic inadvertently released internal source code behind its popular artificial-intelligence-powered Claude coding assistant, raising questions about the security of an AI model developer that has ...
VentureBeat

Claude Code's source code appears to have leaked: here's what we know

VentureBeat made with Google Gemini 3.1 Pro Image Anthropic appears to have accidentally revealed the inner workings of one of its most popular and lucrative AI products, the agentic AI harness Claude ...
Computerworld

Claude Code and Cowork can now use your computer

Anthropic’s Claude is getting a new feature that allows the AI model to use your computer to perform tasks automatically. Both Cowork and Code can then navigate the screen by pointing, clicking, and ...