As a consultant, I spend a lot of time in PowerPoint. Data doesn’t drive decisions, narrative does, and, love it or hate it, ...

A fast, memory-safe library for text extraction from Office documents. Rust core with first-class bindings for Python, Go, C#/.NET, Node.js (native and WASM), and a stable C FFI. Handles DOCX, XLSX, ...

A new benchmark puts top models like GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus 4.6 to work on the kinds of tasks junior investment bankers handle every day. Not a single output was deemed ready to send to a client.

This tool converts PDF files and images into editable PowerPoint presentations (.pptx) by leveraging structured data from the MinerU PDF Extractor. It accurately reconstructs text, images, and layout, ...

The NotebookLM tool lets you summarize content, get answers using AI, and, most importantly, create presentation slides from notes. However, there’s one caveat. The NotebookLM exports slides as PDFs ...

Every day, I prepare several PowerPoint presentations for my boss. These presentations contain multiple charts that summarize network performance. While creating the slides using the python-pptx ...

The rapid evolution of generative AI has created a pressing need for tools that can efficiently prepare diverse data sources for large language models (LLMs). Transforming information that is encoded ...

A previously undocumented China-aligned advanced persistent threat (APT) group named PlushDaemon has been linked to a supply chain attack targeting a South Korean virtual private network (VPN) ...

MarkItDown is an open-source Python library from Microsoft that converts various file formats to Markdown for indexing and analysis. Markdown is a popular lightweight markup language with plain text ...

This Step-by-Step guide demonstrates how to use Python and the python-pptx library to create PowerPoint presentations from command line. The steps and code provided in this guide are not specific to ...

A new 'White Phoenix' ransomware decryptor allows victims to partially recover files encrypted by ransomware strains that use intermittent encryption. Intermittent encryption is a strategy employed by ...