Mind the talent gap: Infosec vacancies abound, but hiring is flat
ISC2 argues security training needs to steer toward what hiring managers want
Security11 Sep 2024 | 8
Education
Brit teachers are getting AI sidekicks to help with marking and lesson plans
Updated Isn't the education system in enough trouble already?
AI + ML29 Aug 2024 | 34
This uni thought it would be a good idea to do a phishing test with a fake Ebola scare
Needless to say, it backfired in a big way
CSO22 Aug 2024 | 118
Attacker steals personal data of 200K+ people with links to Arizona tech school
Nearly 50 different data points were accessed by cybercrim
Cyber-crime12 Aug 2024 | 7
MDM vendor Mobile Guardian attacked, leading to remote wiping of 13,000 devices
Singapore Ministry of Education orders software removed after string of snafus
Security06 Aug 2024 | 9
An attorney says she saw her library reading habits reflected in mobile ads. That's not supposed to happen
Feature Follow us down this deep rabbit hole of privacy policy after privacy policy
Personal Tech18 May 2024 | 140
NARROWER TOPICS
Cops cuff man for allegedly framing colleague with AI-generated hate speech clip
Athletics boss accused of deep-faking Baltimore school principal
Cyber-crime25 Apr 2024 | 18
Netherlands arm of KPMG fined $25M for cheating in exams
Staff followed US lead and shared answers after move to online testing
Legal11 Apr 2024 | 19
Fresh version of Windows user-friendly Zorin OS arrives to tempt the Linux-wary
Adding extra shine to Ubuntu Jammy… with the lightweight edition to follow
OSes15 Mar 2024 | 109
VMware by Broadcom promises more, cheaper, training, starting around May
Exclusive But for now, smaller customers have been cut off from on-demand training content
Channel11 Mar 2024 | 8
Researcher claims Harvard nixed social media research after getting Zuck bucks
University says ties to Meta execs and a $500 million donation played no role
Personal Tech04 Dec 2023 | 10
Duke Uni libraries decamp from 37Signals' Basecamp over CTO's blogs
We're canceling our subscriptions, say librarians citing co-founder's views
SaaS01 Dec 2023 | 43
Ex-school IT admin binned student, staff accounts and trashed phone system
After getting the tintack, IRL BOFH went rogue
Public Sector01 Dec 2023 | 56
Zuckerberg accused of OK'ing Insta plastic surgery filters despite fears of harm to kids
'Meta knows what it is doing is bad for children ... it is now there in black and white'
Bootnotes29 Nov 2023 | 15
No more staff budget for UK civil service, but worry not – here's an incubator for AI
Today's story was brought to you by the words politician and silly
AI + ML22 Nov 2023 | 62
Pope tempted by Python! Signs off on coding scheme for kids
In the name of the firewall, the server, and the home page default, amen
Bootnotes28 Oct 2023 | 41
Microsoft creates a new kind of credential: the 'Applied Skill'
Poll Shorter and more specific than certifications, but still tied to Microsoft products. Would you do one?
On-Prem26 Oct 2023 | 13
Big Tech offers free training courses on India's new digital skills platform
Mobile-first service aims to bring e-learning to the masses, covering tech and plenty more
Software15 Sep 2023 | 1
This profiler chatbot promises to help speed up your Python – we can believe it
Interview Scalene, Scalene, Scalene, Scalene, I'm beggin' of you please improve my code
Software30 Aug 2023 | 12
University cuts itself off from internet after mystery security snafu
Updated Halls of learning are stuck offline, but go Wolverines!
CSO29 Aug 2023 | 21
Bomb scare causes mass evacuation at DEF CON
DEF CON Summer Camp is over and what has been done? Have aspirations shriveled in the Sun?
Black Hat and DEF CON14 Aug 2023 | 6
Cyber-extortionists pillage Colorado education dept
Hey, breacher, leave those kids alone
Cyber-crime08 Aug 2023 | 7
4 in 5 Chromebooks sold to US students in Q2 as demand rises
Education buyers ignore campaign group's intense criticism of device's lifespan, 'expect expiration dates for milk, not tech'
Personal Tech08 Aug 2023 | 41
IBM kills its Education Cloud after just two-and-a-bit years
Boffins given five months to migrate, with vanilla DaaS suggested as the alternative
PaaS + IaaS04 Jul 2023 | 7
Professor freezes student grades after ChatGPT claimed AI wrote their papers
Future robots don't need to be killers, they can just turn us against ourselves
AI + ML17 May 2023 | 107
Plagiarism-sniffing Turnitin tries to find AI writing by students – with mixed grades
Updated Claims 98% confidence, tests suggest a human touch will beat the teachers
AI + ML05 Apr 2023 | 42
School principal resigns after writing $100,000 check to Elon Musk impersonator
In Brief ALSO: DJI forgets the 'B' in 'BCC,' and this week's critical known exploits
Security03 Apr 2023 | 90
Switchzilla revisits training and cert tools with looming debut of 'Cisco U.'
Some training in refreshed certification platform to be free, including short how-to vids
Networks13 Mar 2023 | 7
Chromebook SH1MMER exploit promises admin jailbreak
Schools' laptops are out if this one gets around, tho beware bricking
Security30 Jan 2023 | 15
China stops recognizing online study, orders kids back to foreign unis
Asia In Brief PLUS: NTT’s haptics advance; Australia cracks down on influencers; Korean Uni websites hit by Chinese protestors; and more
On-Prem30 Jan 2023 | 6
Poor Meta. Technical debt and user training made its exabyte-scale data migration tricky
Welcome to the real world, kids. And for the rest of us, a future at which Meta is gulp! – better at large-scale analytics
Databases27 Jan 2023 | 11
CISA sends schools back to the classroom on security
Oy, teacher, protect those kids online
Government Tech Week25 Jan 2023 | 1
ChatGPT talks its way through Wharton MBA, medical exams
This perhaps says more about the tests than the artificial intelligence on display
AI + ML24 Jan 2023 | 40
University of Texas latest US school to ban TikTok
Great, now staff and students can stop scrolling and get back to work
Security19 Jan 2023 | 27
Lockheed Martin's Army cyber training platform goes civilian
Army civilian employees, that is, but aerospace biz says it could be used in the private sector, too
Security29 Nov 2022 | 1
Amazon quits India's frenzied edtech market
Plenty of top tech CEOs graduated from the country's unis, which are seen as a ticket to prosperity
Personal Tech25 Nov 2022 | 1
AI programming assistants mean rethinking computer science education
Analysis Boffins say educators need to deal with opportunities and risks of GitHub Copilot and pals
AI + ML20 Oct 2022 | 27
Collapsed Arecibo telescope to be replaced by school
Space scientists lament loss, say it won't be the same without actual working instruments
Science17 Oct 2022 | 40
US school year opens with reading, writing, and ransomware
FBI warns that Vice Society threat group is ramping up attacks on the education sector
Cyber-crime07 Sep 2022 | 8
US plans to open up government-funded science research papers to all
Remembering Aaron Swartz
Science25 Aug 2022 | 16
Philippines orders fraud probe after paying MacBook prices for slow Celeron laptops
Education Department planned to buy 70,000 laptops, blew its budget and bought just 40,000
Personal Tech16 Aug 2022 | 61
Education officials urged to curb student snoopware
Or just see it as preparing them for the future
Applications04 Aug 2022 | 7
Engineers on the brink of extinction threaten entire tech ecosystems
Opinion Resting on its laurels is costing the industry its hardies
Systems18 Jul 2022 | 260
Big Tech bosses call for computer science to be taught in all US schools
If we're gonna have robot overlords, might as well learn why they crash
Software13 Jul 2022 | 51
More and more CS students are interested in AI – and there aren't enough lecturers
Brain drain of researchers flocking to industry is not the real problem here, report suggests
AI + ML07 Jul 2022 | 18
Is computer vision the cure for school shootings? Likely not
Comment Gun-detecting AI outfits want to help while root causes need tackling
AI + ML28 Jun 2022 | 100
Indian developer educator Scaler moves to America with $11k online courses
MOOC dropouts, boot camp avoiders, and college-averse students sought
Software09 Jun 2022 | 5
Taser maker offers electric-shock drones to stop school shootings
For $50,000 annually plus building work, budget-strapped teachers can (maybe) zap gunmen, for the kids
Personal Tech03 Jun 2022 | 192
Stolen university credentials up for sale by Russian crooks, FBI warns
Forget dark-web souks, thousands of these are already being traded on public bazaars
Cyber-crime27 May 2022 | 3
FTC signals crackdown on ed-tech harvesting kid's data
Trade watchdog, and President, reminds that COPPA can ban ya
Personal Tech20 May 2022 | 9
UK competition watchdog probes school software contract revisions
Former Capita-owned ESS' minimum 3-year deals put under spotlight by CMA
Software27 Apr 2022 | 13
IT outage at Scotland's Heriot-Watt University enters second week
Multiple systems remain down as spokesperson confirms 'security incident' was cyber attack
Security24 Mar 2022 | 40
Intel details $100m plan to boost US chip-making skills
Bold moves to create a 'semi' literate pool of factory workers
On-Prem17 Mar 2022 |
Boys outnumber girls 6 to 1 in UK compsci classes
Despite girls outperforming boys when they choose the subject
Software16 Mar 2022 | 159
Users sound off as new Google Workspace for Education storage limits near
But should free tier users in universities not invest in their own IT infrastructure?
Storage10 Feb 2022 | 73
Employers in denial over success of digital skills training, say exasperated staffers
Large disparities in views from bosses vs workers on 'talent transformation initiatives,' says survey
Off-Prem25 Jan 2022 | 26
UK Department for Education to schools: Maybe delay signing that 3-year licensing deal for MIS with Education Software Solutions
ESS boss says 'longer agreement terms... increasingly standard' in the sector
Software19 Nov 2021 | 24
Education Software Solutions tells school customers: We are moving to 3-year licensing contracts and so are you
Updated Some punters not happy with former Capita-owned biz, now under control of Montagu Private Equity
Applications16 Nov 2021 | 28
Sheffield Uni cooks up classic IT disaster in £30m student project: Shifting scope, leadership changes, sunk cost fallacy
And in the end, policy tweaks made most of it unnecessary
Databases16 Nov 2021 | 106
Mobile mobile museum looks to chart the history of portable phones
25-year-strong collection of 2,000 handsets covers 1984 to the present day
Personal Tech22 Sep 2021 | 14
Still divided on whether teachers, parents or politicians are to blame
Register Debate Can we close the education divide? Maybe, but not by stuffing it with computers and smart boards
SaaS17 Sep 2021 | 15
Technology doesn’t widen the education divide. People do that
Register Debate And no, we don’t want a generation of early-years coders
SaaS16 Sep 2021 | 53
Biting the hand that feeds IT
