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Microsoft Excel champ proves he still has the formula

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Diarmuid Early dominates Amsterdam qualifier as competitive spreadsheeting sets sights on Vegas finals

Microsoft Excel may be where joy goes to die in rows and columns, but this weekend it was the stuff of trophies, prize money, and esports-style drama.

Competitive Excel wrangling has become quite a thing. The latest stop was Amsterdam's H20 Esports Campus, where spreadsheet athletes competed across five formats for a share of a €12,500 prize fund and direct seeding into the 2026 Microsoft Excel World Championship Finals in Las Vegas. Reigning champion Diarmuid Early of Ireland was back at the keyboard.

The competition was divided into multiple threads: the main event, a relay (where a three-person team shared one workbook), mixed doubles (where two competitors worked in parallel on linked problems), a student challenge, and a bracket-style "Mega Elimination."

Early took home three trophies, winning the Main Event and Mega Elimination, and as part...

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'Adversaries are no longer just targeting products, they're targeting the developers who build them': CrowdStrike takes down major botnet targeting developers across the world

* CrowdStrike, Google, and Shadowserver jointly dismantled the Glassworm botnet on May 26, 2026, by disrupting all four of its resilient C2 channels simultaneously * Active since early 2025, Glassworm spread via trojanized VSCode extensions, poisoned npm/Python packages, and compromised GitHub repos, stealing developer credentials and deploying GlasswormRAT across Windows, macOS,
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OpenAI announces partnerships to combat election misinformation, offering cybersecurity products to state officials and backing legislation to curb deepfakes

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