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Microsoft has released fixes for a bug that silently broke copy-and-paste, autofill, and formula dragging in Excel after installing this month's security updates, including KB5002914. Users of Excel 2016, Office LTSC 2019, 2021, and 2024 must manually install specific updates to resolve the issue, which had been widely reported on Reddit and Microsoft's Q&A forums.
Google is rolling out a new 'Copy code' shortcut in Gmail that appears beneath the subject line of verification emails, letting users copy a 2FA code straight to their clipboard without opening the message. The feature is live on Gmail for Android version 2026.09.07.x and iOS version 6.0.260907, though it hasn't reached the web version yet.
An essay contends that people should almost never use AI to generate written text meant to convey ideas or arguments, even with detailed prompts or human editing afterward. The author distinguishes this from other AI uses they endorse, like transcription, data analysis, brainstorming, and copyediting, arguing only the act of drafting substantive prose should be avoided.
Microsoft released update KB5002655 to address a silent copy-and-paste failure introduced by the September security patch KB5002914, but the fix only applies to MSI-based installations of Excel 2016. Users of Excel Online, 2024, 2021, 2019, and Click-to-Run editions of 2016 remain affected, with Microsoft citing a code regression as the cause and recommending the Paste Special workaround in the meantime.
A developer built Qbix, a PHP webserver that forks thousands of lightweight worker processes from a single parent process using pcntl_fork(), relying on the Linux kernel's copy-on-write memory sharing. Unlike FrankenPHP, RoadRunner or PHP-FPM, which are limited by worker count due to memory duplication, Qbix lets each worker share the framework's loaded classes and only pay memory costs for pages it actually modifies during a request.
Developer ori has released a very early, buggy preview of GEFS—a crash-safe, snapshotting, copy-on-write filesystem originally built for Plan 9's 9front—running on OpenBSD. The port, under 9,000 lines of kernel code, is not intended for production use, with data loss expected especially during error conditions, and is not being proposed for inclusion in the OpenBSD tree yet.
Microsoft has confirmed a bug in its September 2026 KB5002914 security update causes copy-paste, autofill, and formula dragging to silently fail in Excel 2016, 2019, 2021, and 2024. The issue produces no error message or warning, leaving users unaware that their paste actions did not take effect. Microsoft says it is investigating but has not yet issued a fix, though affected users can uninstall the update via command-line instructions to restore normal functionality.
A C++ programming tutorial explains that developers should rarely write std::move explicitly, because the language already applies return value optimization (RVO) and implicit moves in many common cases. The post walks through examples like pure RVO, named RVO, and functions returning parameters by value to show when the compiler elides copies or moves automatically.
Qubes OS disclosed QSB 118, a vulnerability in the qvm-copy-to-vm utility that lets a compromised qube inject arbitrary commands into dom0 when a user copies files to it. The flaw stems from insufficient sanitization of a file name reported back through the qfile protocol's error-reporting mechanism, which dom0 displays without properly neutralizing malicious content. Users are advised to update normally to receive the fix, with no other action required.