Microsoft pushes $4B at AI education for the masses
Hey, teacher, leave those kids to AI
AI + ML09 Jul 2025 | 13
Education
Brain activity much lower when using AI chatbots, MIT boffins find
EEG and recall tests suggest people who use ChatGPT to write essays aren't learning much
AI + ML18 Jun 2025 | 58
UK students flock to AI to help them cheat
No need to plagiarize if you can have AI do it for you
AI + ML16 Jun 2025 | 113
As AI gallops through the federal workforce, lawmakers once again call for expanded training
The last effort never went anywhere
Public Sector09 Jun 2025 | 6
American science put on starvation diet
National Science Foundation FY 2026 budget cut by more than 60%
Science30 May 2025 | 81
Ransomware attack on MATLAB dev MathWorks – licensing center still locked down
Commercial customers, STEM students all feeling the pain after mega outage of engineering data-analysis tool
Cyber-crime27 May 2025 | 23
NARROWER TOPICS
Scottish council admits ransomware crooks stole school data
Parents and teachers have personal info, ID documents leaked online, but exam season mostly unaffected
Cyber-crime22 May 2025 | 36
NSF director memo to staff: Don't worry about those job cuts, at least for now
Court orders halt to layoffs – as folks steering American innovation wonder how long injunction will last
Science14 May 2025 | 8
PowerSchool paid thieves to delete stolen student, teacher data. Looks like crooks lied
Now individual school districts extorted by fiends
CSO08 May 2025 | 33
As ChatGPT scores B- in engineering, professors scramble to update courses
Now that AI is invading classrooms and homework assignment, students need to learn reasoning more than ever
AI Software Development Week23 Apr 2025 | 120
Tech suppliers await final grade as Trump prepares to flunk Department of Education
Vendors with millions in federal contracts are watching nervously
Public Sector27 Mar 2025 | 32
Revenge of the nerds: Teachers, professors sue to undo Trump science funding cuts
Who needs studies into diseases, virus infections, US mortality rates ... right?
Science25 Mar 2025 | 117
Attackers swipe data of 500k+ people from Pennsylvania teachers union
SSNs, payment details, and health info too
Cyber-crime19 Mar 2025 | 3
Cybersecurity not the hiring-'em-like-hotcakes role it once was
Analysis Ghost positions, HR AI no help – biz should talk to infosec staff and create 'realistic' job outline, say experts
CSO03 Mar 2025 | 15
Tech jobs are now white-collar trades that need apprentices, not a career crawl
APRICOT With a generation of networking engineers set to retire, is this how to give their successors a faster start?
Networks27 Feb 2025 | 76
PowerSchool theft latest: Decades of Canadian student records, data from 40-plus US states feared stolen
Updated Lawsuits pile up after database accessed by miscreants
Cyber-crime22 Jan 2025 | 31
Ransomware attack forces Brit high school to shut doors
Students have work to complete at home in the meantime
Cyber-crime20 Jan 2025 | 103
Database tables of student, teacher info stolen from PowerSchool in cyberattack
Class act: Cloud biz only serves 60M-plus folks globally, no biggie
Cyber-crime09 Jan 2025 | 23
No, Broadcom did not just end VMware's flagship VCDX certification program
Sure, it sent an email and FAQ saying it had – but that was a mistake, you see
Virtualization28 Nov 2024 | 9
Academic papers yanked after authors found to have used unlicensed software
Updated Dam, the consequences
Software14 Nov 2024 | 80
Arecibo telescope might have failed because of weak sockets
Electromagnetic radiation contributed to that zincing feeling: analysts
Science06 Nov 2024 | 68
Parents take school to court after student punished for using AI
Claims their child will 'suffer irreparable harm' if the record stays
AI + ML16 Oct 2024 | 178
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
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
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
Biting the hand that feeds IT
