Nicholas Sutrich / Android Central: Microsoft launches the basic Office suite on the Meta Quest store for free; all three apps run in a MR environment and all Quest headsets are supported  —  Now you can tweak spreadsheets while playing Xbox, all in VR.  —  What you need to know  — Meta Quest users can now use Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint in VR. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Glenn Fleishman / Retool: A look back at Yahoo Pipes, launched in 2007 to let users make custom data feeds by dragging elements in a web browser, influencing a generation of UI designers  —  Want to know whether the latest logged earthquakes were near you?  Aggregate 100 top news sites, but only see items that mention cats? Lees verder op Tech Meme

Eduardo Baptista / Reuters: China proposes a four-tier, color-coded system for data security incidents; for red and orange alerts the government must be notified within 10 minutes  —  China on Friday proposed a four-tier classification to help it respond to data security incidents, highlighting Beijing’s concern … Lees verder op Tech Meme

David Gilbert / Wired: Researchers: Microsoft Copilot is responding to some political queries in the US and other countries with conspiracies, information, and out-of-date information  —  Research shared exclusively with WIRED shows that Copilot, Microsoft’s AI chatbot, often responds to questions about elections with lies and conspiracy theories. Lees verder op Tech Meme