{"slug": "excel-canvas-offers-to-turn-your-workbook-into-the-boss-s-next-report", "title": "Excel Canvas offers to turn your workbook into the boss's next report", "summary": "The Register's AI section highlights Nvidia's new $4,999 DGX Spark, which ships with half the RAM and storage of the prior model, while the 128 GB version now costs $6,950, nearly 75% above its launch price amid a memory crunch. The same roundup notes Huawei's claim that its homegrown AI chip sales top Nvidia in China, and that the Pi coding agent reversed course to add MCP support via a separate harness layer.", "body_md": "### [AI](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/ai)\n\n- \n#### Nvidia debuts $4,999 DGX Spark with half the RAM and storage, amid memory crunchMeanwhile 128 GB version jumps to $6,950, nearly 75% above its launch price\n- \n#### Pi coding agent pulls a 180 and adds MCP supportTo maintain minimalism, a new harness layer has been folded into a separate component\n- \n#### Stanford prof is beating the drum for a new protocol to replace TCPHoma is a rethink of networks for the AI age\n- \n#### Hot Dog! America's new chatbot is packed with wienersJust ask America.gov and you'll receive a favorite July 4th food.\n- \n#### Huawei boss claims homegrown AI chip sales top Nvidia in ChinaThe chips may not be as advanced, but they won't get banned at a moment's notice, Eric Xu says\n\n### [Infosec](https://beta.theregister.com/security)\n\n- \nSecurity #### Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacksPLUS: US takes down Iranian propaganda sites; Marketing company asks 'Why Do We Have Your Information?' And more!\n- \nSecurity #### Microsoft patches failed to fix on-prem SharePoint, which is now under zero-day attackPLUS: China upgrades smartphone surveillance tools; Ring eases anti-snooping stance; and more\n- \nBlack Hat and DEF CON #### DEF CON Franklin project enlists hackers to harden critical infrastructureVoting village reports have been so successful, says Jeff Moss, that the whole of DEF CON will now be included\n- \nSecurity #### EQT buys majority share in Swiss cybersecurity biz AcronisWent at equivalent of $3.5B+ valuation for entire firm, though portion sold not specified\n- \nMalware Month #### Ten years since the first corp ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen sees no end in sightOn the plus side, infosec's a good bet for a long, stable career\n\n### [FOSS](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/FOSS)\n\n- \n#### Firefox 157: Could bold new look be just what Mozilla needs?*Yet another new version of Firefox, with a significant reskin\n- \n#### KDE turns 30 and someone's brought an AI-native desktop proposalAkademy talk imagines Plasma assembling itself around a personal model of each user\n- \n#### Shopify extends lifeline to Tailwind as vibe coding erodes web dev platform's bottom lineAcquisition gives open source CSS framework 'a stable long-term home'\n- \n#### Switzerland tests a FOSS escape route from Microsoft 365Swiss Army sticks a knife in American cloud apps with its own FOSS push\n- \n#### Feel peak Windows was 7? You might like Kumander LinuxDebian and Xfce – solid, sensible choices – with a pretty skin\n- \n#### Canonical shuttering some of its legacy chat channelsThe Ubuntu Pastebin went in June, IRC gets demoted next", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/excel-canvas-offers-to-turn-your-workbook-into-the-boss-s-next-report", "canonical_source": "https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/10/02/excel-canvas-offers-to-turn-your-workbook-into-the-bosss-next-report/5300812", "published_at": "2026-10-02 12:27:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-02 13:10:05.295868+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-chips", "ai-agents", "agent-protocols", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["Nvidia", "DGX Spark", "Huawei", "Eric Xu", "Pi", "MCP", "The Register"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/excel-canvas-offers-to-turn-your-workbook-into-the-boss-s-next-report", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/excel-canvas-offers-to-turn-your-workbook-into-the-boss-s-next-report.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/excel-canvas-offers-to-turn-your-workbook-into-the-boss-s-next-report.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/excel-canvas-offers-to-turn-your-workbook-into-the-boss-s-next-report.jsonld"}}