Shorties: Links to All Things Interesting Breaking News Hot updates! Cool updates! Sometimes, maybe even slightly-warm updates. Core C++ 2025 – Schedule Published The Core C++ 2025 conference will be held on October 19 in Tel Aviv, with a full day of technical sessions across four parallel tracks, including topics in real-time and embedded systems. www.corecpp.org Event Schedule Core C++ 2025 Breaking News Dijkstra Algorithm is (Somewhat) Defeated For decades, Dijkstra algorithm for finding the shortest paths was a fundamental “Textbook” algorithm. A team of researchers from China have recently presented a new algorithm, that may, in some situation, have a smaller complexity. www.eu.36kr.com Tsinghua Professors Break 40-Year Bottleneck of Dijkstra's Algorithm, Overturn Textbook, Win Best Paper at STOC Tsinghua University’s Duan Ran-led team’s new shortest path algorithm breaks sorting bottleneck, wins Best Paper Award at STOC. Breaking News Search the Web from Excel Copilot now allows creating Excel tables based on Web search directly from within the application. www.techcommunity.microsoft.com Search and import data with Copilot in Excel Copilot in Microsoft Excel can reference Word, PowerPoint, and PDF documents, as well as other Excel files, to pull and analyze internal, web, or other data. Breaking News