Using AI to Scan Resumes
/A recent survey by Resume Builder found that four in five companies are using AI to scan resumes, two in five are using chatbots to communicate with candidates, and one in five is giving AI interviews. – The Atlantic
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26 Recent Articles about the Dangers of AI
/How to Fight AI Brain Rot at School? For One Country, It’s With Free ChatGPT – Wall Street Journal
These AI models are free, private, and will never say 'no' – NPR
Claims that China and overseas propaganda drive Americans to rise up against data centers are based on scant evidence. – Washington Post
Why A.I. Safety Controls Are Not Very Effective – New York Times
AI Has Broken Containment - The Atlantic
AI license plate cameras tore this town apart and led to a state of emergency - Washington Post
The world must stop AI from empowering bioterrorists – The Economist
Scammers targeting missing pet owners with AI – ABC-7
Deepfakes Are Coming for Your Bank Account OpenAI made the perfect tool for scammers. - The Atlantic
ChatGPT Wrestles With Its Most Chilling Conversation: How Do I Plan an Attack? - Wall Street Journal
5 AI Models Tried to Scam Me. Some of Them Were Scary Good - Wired
A secretive AI hacking system has sparked a global scramble – Washington Post
Five Concerns About AI Data Centers, and What to Do About Them – Data Innovation
AI can design viruses, toxins and other bioweapons. How worried should we be? – Nature
Inside a growing movement warning AI could turn on humanity - The Washington Post
Behind the Curtain: The kids aren't AI-right - Axios
AI Is Finding Bugs That Hackers Can Exploit. Get Ready for Bugmageddon. - Wall Street Journal
A.I. Is on Its Way to Upending Cybersecurity – New York Times
"Too Powerful to Release": The Greatest Marketing Playbook in AI – AI in the News
Four Reasons New AI Data Centers Won’t Overwhelm the Electricity Grid - ITIF
Over 4,732 Messages, He Fell In Love With an AI Chatbot. Now He’s Dead. - Wall Street Journal
AI Is Using So Much Energy That Computing Firepower Is Running Out - Wall Street Journal
Claude Mythos Is Everyone’s Problem - The Atlantic
Creating Baby Geniuses to Thwart the AI Threat? (Yes, Really.) – Mother Jones
We ranked the most environmentally damaging things you can do online. AI didn't top the list – Science Focus
Throwing AI at Problems
/The corporations buying A.I. access for themselves are finding that you cannot solve problems just by throwing A.I. at them. It takes work to structure a problem in a way that allows A.I. to be useful, just as it took work, in previous generations, to integrate I.T. into a company or redesign a factory to take advantage of electricity. -New York Times
The Glory of Parenthood
/Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves. -Marcelene Cox
43 Articles on Career Advice
/5 skills young professionals should master - Glassdoor
5 Ways to Demonstrate Your Value — Remotely - HBR
Actionable Advice For Young People Starting Out Their Careers - Forbes
The best way to show off your emerging A.I. skills to land a job - CNBC
Building Your Intellectual Toolbox: Career Advice from the Experts - Council on Foreign Relations
The Career Advice No One Teaches High Achievers - Inc
Common misconceptions about MBAs - ZDnet
Don’t Focus on Your Job at the Expense of Your Career - Harvard Business Review
Don’t Just Pay Interns, Help Them Build Networks - Harvard Business Review
Essential advice for landing your dream job - Fast Company
Find Work You Love by Identifying Your Unique Angle - LifeHacker
Gen Z is Hungry for Career Advice. But Their Parents Are Lost Themselves - TIME
Giving Career Advice to Kids Has Never Been Harder - Wall Street Journal
Google’s ‘Career Dreamer’ uses AI to help you explore job possibilities – Tech Crunch
Harvard researcher shares key skill of the future—that most people don't have - CNBC
How do you launch a journalism career in the middle of a pandemic? - Poynter
How to Break Up With Your Career - Wall Street Journal
How Much Time Can I Take Off Between Jobs? - Harvard Business Review
How to get your career moving: lessons from a behavioural scientist - Financial Times
How to Improve Your Career Development - US News
How to Recover from a Toxic Job - Harvard Business Review
How to Tell You're About to be Laid Off - Life Hacker
How to Vet a Remote Workplace - Harvard Business Review
The Journalists of Color Resource Guide
Journalist Guide to Survival: Five ways to thrive on your first job - RTDNA
LinkedIn CEO: Ignore this common piece of career advice—it’s ‘outdated’ and ‘a little bit foolish’ - CNBC
Losing Passion for Your Job? Why Quitting Might Be the Right Move - Harvard Business School
One Piece of Career Advice Changed Everything - Inc
Our Top 6 Pieces of Career Wisdom for Recent Grads - First Round
The Personal Business of Being Laid Off - HazLitt
Pros and Cons of Working From Home - US News
How to Recover from a Toxic Job - Harvard Business Review
The Secret to Retaining the Best Employees: Ask Them These Four Questions - Wall Street Journal
A Survival Guide for Dealing With a Bad Boss - Wall Street Journal
These are the signs that you're in a toxic work environment - CNN
The top 10 skills you need to land a job right now, according to LinkedIn - CNBC
Tips for Using AI Tools in Technical Interviews - IEEE
What Reporters Should Do Before and After a Layoff - Education Writer’s Association
What’s a good (and bad) way to leave your job? - FT
Your Career Is Just One-Eighth of Your Life - The Atlantic
21 Recent Articles about AI & Data Science
/Why satellite imagery falls short for AI training data
How to Write Robust Code with Claude Code
Recursive Language Models: An All-in-One Deep Dive
White House Approves a secret $9 Billion request for Spy Agencies to Catch Up on A.I.
Germany is launching military AI into space
Why sandboxing OpenClaw doesn’t stop data exfiltration
Five fundamental concepts that every Python developer should have in their toolkit.
How AI Agents Will Transform Data Science Work in 2026
How to undo Git actions with confidence
Making Claude Code validate its own work
How to Build an Efficient Knowledge Base for AI Models
Re-thinking human–machine interaction and the governance of AI in the military domain
How insertion and deletion errors disrupt data synchronization in modern communication systems
NRO says proliferated satellite architecture exceeding expectations
How AI Tools Generate Technical Debt — and What to Do About It
To accelerate adoption of commercial technology, NGA has established a Rapid Capabilities Office
Claude Code is leaking API keys into public package registries
Flattened Writing
/My version of “human” is no longer acceptable. What’s actually happening is not AI detection; it’s enforcement. We’re enforcing a narrow, flattened version of what “human writing” is supposed to look like. For emerging writers, it doesn’t just challenge their credibility; it destabilizes their confidence before they’ve even had the chance to build it. It tells them that their voice is not something to develop, but something to dilute until it passes inspection. -Denise Zubizarreta writing in Technical.ly
AI definitions: AGI (Artificial General Intelligence)
/AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) – A machine that has the capacity to understand or learn any intellectual task that a human being can. Rather than focusing on solving specific problems (like Deep Blue, which was good at chess), this type of AI has broader uses and may possess seemingly human-level intelligence to learn and adapt. Scientists have had difficulty defining human intelligence and disagree as to what would count as AGI. Regardless of where they draw the line, most experts say AGI is at least decades away. Scientists have no hard evidence that today’s technologies can perform even some of the simpler things the human brain can do, like recognizing irony or feeling empathy. Beyond AGI lies the more speculative goal of "sentient AI," where the programs become aware of their existence with feelings and desires.
Denialism and Science
/Denialism, and related phenomena, are often portrayed as a “war on science”. This is an understandable but profound misunderstanding. Certainly, denialism and other forms of pseudo-scholarship do not follow mainstream scientific methodologies. Denialism does indeed represent a perversion of the scholarly method, and the science it produces rests on profoundly erroneous assumptions, but denialism does all this in the name of science and scholarship. Denialism aims to replace one kind of science with another – it does not aim to replace science itself. In fact, denialism constitutes a tribute to the prestige of science and scholarship in the modern world. Denialists are desperate for the public validation that science affords.
While denialism has sometimes been seen as part of a post-modern assault on truth, the denialist is just as invested in notions of scientific objectivity as the most unreconstructed positivist. Even those who are genuinely committed to alternatives to western rationality and science can wield denialist rhetoric that apes precisely the kind of scientism they despise. Anti-vaxxers, for example, sometimes seem to want to have their cake and eat it: to have their critique of western medicine validated by western medicine.
The rhetoric of denialism and its critics can resemble each other in a kind of war to the death over who gets to wear the mantle of science. The term “junk science” has been applied to climate change denialism, as well as in defence of it. Mainstream science can also be dogmatic and blind to its own limitations. If the accusation that global warming is an example of politicised ideology masked as science is met with indignant assertions of the absolute objectivity of “real” science, there is a risk of blinding oneself to uncomfortable questions regarding the subtle and not-so-subtle ways in which the idea of pure truth, untrammelled by human interests, is elusive. Human interests can rarely if ever be separated from the ways we observe the world.
I do not believe that, if only one could find the key to “make them understand”, denialists would think just like me. If denialists were to stop denying, we cannot assume that we would then have a shared moral foundation on which we could make progress as a species.
Keith Kahn-Harris, Denial: The Unspeakable Truth
19 Webinars this week about AI, Journalism & Media
/Mon, June 1 - Vibe Code Your Media Feed
What: We will highlight several functional, educator-created vibe-coded media curation platforms, and consider how we can experiment together in building the kind of community-driven, serendipity-friendly information environments we, our students and our colleagues deserve.
Who: Wesley Fryer, a middle school STEM and media literacy middle school teacher at Providence Day School in Charlotte, North Carolina.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Media Education Lab
Tue, June 2 - Finding opportunities in political journalism
What: Insights into the newsrooms’ operations of our guests and what they look for in job applicants and potential colleagues. Attendees will learn what types of jobs exist within the broad spectrum of political journalism, how to stay motivated among trends in hiring, and which skills are worth gaining or adapting to match real-world opportunities.
Who: Coy Draytona, editorial recruiter for Axios; Dave Clarke, policy editor for Punchbowl News.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: National Press Club Journalism Institute
Tue, June 2 - Filtered In: Navigating AI-Powered Hiring Practices
What: How is artificial intelligence being used for hiring, and why? How can better understanding of how these tools work improve the hiring experience for employers and job seekers? The event will discuss trends in how tools are used and offer tips that attendees can use while navigating the hiring process.
Who: Hilke Schellmann, investigative reporter and Pulitzer Center grantee.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Pulitzer Center
Tue, June 2 – Your Organization Is Not Ready for AI. Here's Why
What: The hidden execution gaps that determine whether AI transforms your organization or quietly makes things worse. You'll walk away knowing exactly what "readiness" actually means, why your current approach to AI adoption is missing the most critical variable, and what to do about it.
Who: Tim Ohai Founder and Sr. Principal, Kupu Solutions.
When: 3 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Training Magazine Network
Tue, June 2 - What is a creator journalist? And why we should be paying attention
Who: Liz Kelly Nelson, Project C and The Independent Journalism Atlas.
When: 4 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsors: The Center for Scholastic Journalism at Kent State University & Trusting News.
Wed, June 3 - Disaster-ready media and information ecosystems
What: This session will introduce UNESCO’s Model Disaster Preparedness and Response Plan for Media Institutions and seek to equip media with the tools to adapt and apply it in their own organisations. The session will highlight how disaster-ready media can uphold journalistic standards, counter information disruptions, and help communities, especially those most at risk, retain access to trusted, life‑saving information before, during and after disasters.
When: 9 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsors: Public Media Alliance & UNESCO
Wed, June 3 - Creating Workspace Agents for Higher Education Staff/Admin
What: This webinar is on how staff and administrators can identify, scope, build, test, and safely use Workspace Agents for recurring operational workflows. We’ll start with the basics: what Workspace Agents are, how they work, and when they are a better fit than a regular ChatGPT conversation or reusable skill. Then we’ll walk through how to choose a strong first use case, define the sources and review steps an agent needs, build a first version, and improve it through testing and feedback
Who: Andrew Glenn, AI Deployment Manager, OpenAI.
When: 11 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: OpenAI Academy
Thu, June 4 - How to become a science journalist
What: Whether you’re an established journalist keen to explore scientific subjects or a scientist hoping to hone in on your science communication skills, this class will outline the basics of science journalism, from pitching to best practices for creating accurate, reliable and engaging science news.
Who: Pandora Dewan, Trending News Editor, Live Science.
When: 7:30 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: members, £10; nonmembers, £20
Sponsor: Women in Journalism
Thu, June 4 - Reporting and story editing for impact with Pro News Coaches
What: An intensive seminar on deadline reporting and editing. This skills-intensive, one-day immersion event is designed to strengthen breaking-news reporting and fast-turnaround editing through guidance and hands-on practice.
Who: Kimberly S. Johnson, Corporate Editor, The New York Times; Jo Craven McGinty, Former science bureau chief, The Wall Street Journal; Cory Schouten, NYC-based editor, writer, and content strategist; Jennifer Smith, SVP, Director of Content & Editorial Strategy, Greentarget; Chris Winans, Former editor, The Wall Street Journal.
When: 10 am, Eastern
Where: Eventbrite
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Center for Cooperative Media
Thu, June 4 - From infrastructure to revenue: How telcos are monetizing AI
What: Our experts will explore how telcos are building out AI-ready infrastructure and turning these investments into revenue streams. We’ll cover the scale of the computing opportunity, the impact of AI workloads on network architectures and service portfolios, and real-world examples of how operators are deploying AI infrastructure today.
Who: Kerem Arsal, Senior Principal Analyst; Julia Schindler, principal analyst; and Brian Washburn, chief analyst, all at Omidia.
When: 10 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Omdia
Thu, June 4 - Genuine Learning in the Age of AI: A Panel Discussion
What: Our panel of educators will discuss how they are adapting to AI, along with principles and practices for navigating its impact on learning.
Who: Karin L. Heffernan, MLIS Campus Faculty Librarian, Associate Professor Southern New Hampshire University.
When: 11 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Clarivate
Thu, June 4 - Investigating the Impact of Chatbots on Mental Well-Being
What: We explore the methods panelists used to plan and execute their investigations.
Who: Patricia Clarke, AI Fellow, Pulitzer Center; Livia Garofalo, Data & Society Research Institute; Briana Vecchione; Joanna S. Kao who leads the Pulitzer Center's AI Accountability Network.
When: 12:30 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Pulitzer Center
Thu, June 4 - Housing Journalism for Everyone
What: In this panel, attendees will learn: What’s happening nationally in housing and homelessness, essential data tools every journalist should know to report on housing, how to find housing stories in any community, ethical sourcing practices, and examples of strong housing journalism.
Who: Juan Pablo Garnham, the Communications and Policy Engagement Manager for Eviction Lab; Camila Vallejo, a bilingual communications specialist with the Eviction Lab.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsors: Online News Association & the Eviction Lab at Princeton University
Thu, June 4 - Production at the Speed of AI: Scaling Creative Without Sacrificing Trust
What: What You Will Learn: How to scale AI-driven creative production without compromising brand trust or governance; A new model for brand–agency collaboration that accelerates speed and decision-making; Practical ways to balance velocity, creative excellence, and risk in modern marketing.
Who: Alex Lemley, Global Brand Lead NetApp; Rod Sobral, Global Chief Creative Officer, OLIVER; Corey O'Brien, Head of Solutions, OLIVER.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: ANA
Thu, June 4 - Honing Your Voice: Scripting Secrets
What: We’ll delve into scripting for hosted video, considering as different approaches for scripts and prompting hosts, how to transform your longer form reporting into video formats, script durations, how to think about hooks and the first 15 seconds, text on screen, and how to guide reporters without a video background to film/host video.
Who: Katrina Pham, Audience Engagement Reporter, Borderless Magazine.
When: 4 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Video Consortium
Thu, June 4 - Freelancing with ADHD: Productivity Strategies That Actually Work
What: This session for neurodivergent journalists will help you assess difficulties, deal with pressure and offer tips to keep you calm while you thrive and achieve clarity and control.
Who: Jen Brdlik, a neurodivergent life coach, former mental health therapist, and an ADHD and autism specialist.
When: 6 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Society of Professional Journalists
Thu, June 4 - AI on LinkedIn: What to Do and What to Avoid
What: You’ll learn how to strategically use AI to define your value proposition, build a compelling personal brand, and optimize your LinkedIn profile—without losing authenticity or credibility.
Who: Lynne Williams is the Executive Director of the Great Careers Network.
When: 6 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Small Business Development Center, Widener University
Fri, June 5 - Using AI to improve newsgathering
What: How newsrooms can ethically use AI to boost their news products.
Who: Sean Mussenden, Interim Director of the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism, Merrill College, University of Maryland; Derek Willis, Lecturer in Data and Computational Journalism; Eli Wohlenhaus, Director of Digital and AI News Strategy at Adams Multimedia.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: University of Maryland
Fri, June 5 - Climate Reporting 102
What: We'll discuss what data can be used to tell stories about climate change and how you can gather and vet that data.
Who: Mara Hoplamazian is a climate, environment and energy reporter at New Hampshire Public Radio.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: New England Newspaper & Press Association
Being Miserable
/Pain and suffering is inevitable, being miserable is optional. - Art Clanin
14 Articles about Branding & Reputation
/3 Personal Branding Mistakes Job Seekers Must Avoid - Forbes
Ace your job interview with a knockout elevator pitch - Moneywise
Approach Your Personal Brand Like a Project Manager - Harvard Business Review
Brands Shout and Reputation Whispers - FTI Counsulting
Building brand reputation in the age of AI - PR Daily
Call it what you like — Personal brand, career brand or professional reputation. Here’s how to build it. - Fast Company
How AI Is Rewriting the Rules of Personal Reputation - CUindependent
How to build a standout personal brand online, in person and at work - CNBC
Managing Personal Reputation In The Age Of AI And Chatbots - Forbes
Personal branding strategies: 8 social media networks to use for self-branding - Business.com
How to Look and Act Like a Leader- Wall Street Journal ($)
The Importance of Likeability - Wall Street Journal ($)
Personal Branding In The Digital Age: Why It Matters - Forbes
AI definitions: Small Language Models
/Small Language Models (SLMs) – Requiring less data and training time than large language models, SLMs have fewer parameters, making them more useful on the spot or when using smaller devices. Perhaps the best advantage of SLMs is their ability to be fine-tuned for specialized tasks or domains. They are also more useful for enhanced privacy and security and are less prone to undetected hallucinations. Google’s Gemma (designed for developers) is an example.
22 Articles about the Business of Running an AI
/Anthropic has surpassed OpenAI as the most valuable artificial intelligence company - New York Times
OpenAI readies cyber, misinformation defenses ahead of elections – Axios
CNN sues Perplexity over alleged AI copyright theft - CNN
A One-Stop Shop for A.I. Models Raises $113 Million - New York Times
Tracking the spend and revenue of frontier AI companies - Is AI profitable
How Google Is Starting to Win the A.I. Race – New York Times
These 5 charts show how ChatGPT is flooding our lives – Washington Post
OpenAI Bought Company That Offered A.I. Tools for Cloning Voices – New York Times
Teaching AI models to say “I’m not sure” - MIT
Notable Researchers Join $4 Billion Effort to Build Self-Improving A.I. – New York Times
Anthropic overtakes OpenAI in workplace AI adoption - Axios
Meta’s Embrace of A.I. Is Making Its Employees Miserable – New York Times
For Palantir, AI Is a Product, a Punching Bag—and a Problem - Wall Street Journal
Google Says Criminal Hackers Used A.I. to Find a Major Software Flaw – New York Times
Pennsylvania sues Character AI, says chatbot poses as doctors – Reuters
Apple Reaches $250 Million Settlement Over Claims It Misled People on A.I. – New York Times
Google updates AI search to include quotes from Reddit and other sources – Tech Crunch
Meet Mark Zuckerberg’s Right-Hand Man Who’s Unleashing AI at Meta - Wall Street Journal
Five book publishers and a best-selling novelist accused Meta of stealing their work to help train A.I. models. – New York Times
The death of AI idealism - Axios
Start-Up Raises $1.3 Billion for an A.I. electrical ‘Grid’ – New York Times
Peaks & Valleys
/One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.- GK Chesterton (born May 29, 1874)
AI Detectors are not Lie Detectors
/What’s really happening is that human expression is being measured against a distorted reflection of itself. So what does it mean that I “sound like AI”? It means I’ve internalized patterns that are now statistically recognizable. It means I’ve developed consistency, structure and voice. It means I write in a way that is legible, repeatable and coherent. In any other context, that would be called skill. In today’s world, it becomes suspicious. -Denise Zubizarreta writing in Technical.ly
32 Recent Articles about AI & Writing
/What 370,000 College Essays Tell Us About A.I.’s Effects on Creativity: Writing is fundamental to how we think – New York Times
How to Deal With Students Using AI to Cheat – Wall Street Journal
Was a short story that shared a prestigious prize this week written with artificial intelligence? – New York Times
I’m an AI ethicist accused of AI plagiarism. Now what? - Technical.ly
Ban for Authors Submitting AI Content ‘Welcome but Unenforceable’ – Inside Higher Ed
This Literary AI Scandal Changes Everything – The Atlantic
I’m a Professional Writer Who Uses A.I. It’s Not As Scary As I Thought. – Slate
‘Obvious markers of AI’: doubts raised over winner of short story prize – The Guardian
Book on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I. – New York Times
The prevalence of AI content is growing rapidly and ‘it’s not just X, it’s Y’ – Tech Crunch
College students are noticing their AI‑smoothed writing sounds strong — and not like them – The Conversation
AI hasn't overtaken human writers online – Axios
AI writing is impossible to avoid, is making everything sound the same, and is driving us crazy. – 404 Media
Is AI bad for critical thinking? It depends on when you use it – Science News
Writers Are Going to Extremes to Prove They Didn’t Use AI – Wall Street Journal
AI is changing how we write and speak – Axios
Why I Teach My Students to Write With AI – University of Central Florida
Nothing is “100% human authored” – London School of Economics & Political Science
Don’t let your students use AI as a ghostwriter – Nature
New Browser Plugin Adds Typos to Your AI-Generated Emails to Make Them Look Real – Futurism
This new tool makes AI's role in student writing visible – Phys.org
An elite Wall Street law firm has apologized to a federal judge for submitting a court filing full of A.I. “hallucinations.” – New York Times
The Human Skill That Eludes AI – The Atlantic
Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines – The Verge
WordPress.com now lets AI agents write and publish posts, and more – Tech Crunch
How A.I. Killed Student Writing (and Revived It) - New York Times
Could AI write this column? In a world of slop-inion, I’m certifying myself human – The Guardian
How Are Your Teachers Handling Writing in the Age of A.I.? – New York Times
Could you spot an AI-written book? An author set up an experiment to find out. – Vox
Plagiarism of ideas in the age of generative artificial intelligence - Nature
AI Can Improve Scholarly Writing — If We Use It Right – Chronicle of Higher Ed
When Opportunity Knocks
/Opportunity knocks! Quit complaining about the noise!
AI definitions: SQL
/SQL (pronounced ess-kew-ell or sequel) Structured Query Language is the most widely used method of accessing databases. This programming language can be used to create tables, change data, find particular data, and create relationships among different tables. For data scientists, SQL is second in importance after Python. Similar in structure and function to Excel, SQL can work with Excel and is able to handle billions of rows in multiple tables and thousands of users can access this data securely at the same time.