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
Education
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
NARROWER TOPICS
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 | 88
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 | 104
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 | 13
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
Technology does widen the education divide. But not always in the way you expect
Register Debate The pandemic has turned children away from tech, says early-years teacher Maria
SaaS15 Sep 2021 | 29
Technology has the potential to close the education divide. Key word: Potential
Register Debate Quieter kids can speak up in chat, students can record lessons to watch again, and more, says professor
SaaS14 Sep 2021 | 38
Tech widens the educational divide. And I should know – I'm a teacher in a pandemic
Register Debate Teaching online is like talking to a brick wall
SaaS13 Sep 2021 | 105
Using 'AI-based software like Proctorio and ProctorU' to monitor online exams is a really bad idea, says uni panel
Updated Academics find algorithmic surveillance just isn't worth it
AI + ML20 Aug 2021 | 44
Exoskeleton startup wants to slap robot arms on schoolkids
For educational purposes, of course
Personal Tech01 Jul 2021 | 16
Massive tech-for-British-schoolkids cash pot up for grabs as UK education buyers prep £140m agreement
It is Thursday and it's framework-tastic
Channel03 Jun 2021 | 11
Stack Overflow acquired for $1.8bn by Prosus (no, me neither)
Q&A community ponders life as an enterprise education resource
Devops02 Jun 2021 | 44
All that Lego has a purpose: Researchers find that spatial memory improves kids' mathematical powers
Textbooks aren't everything
Science21 May 2021 | 27
Lambda School, a coding bootcamp that takes a cut of your next tech salary, now takes a 30% cut in staff
Plus: Workers axed at '$4bn' Patreon, techies walk away from Basecamp
Devops30 Apr 2021 | 22
British IT teacher gets three-year ban after boozing with students at strip club during school trip to Costa Rica
Watchdog deemed Richard Glenn's conduct 'unacceptable'
Bootnotes23 Apr 2021 | 59
Customs raid rumbles black market for primary school e-learning materials in fiercely competitive Hong Kong
Kids have missed almost an entire year of education due to coronavirus so parents have sought help online
Legal16 Apr 2021 | 6
And that's yet another UK education body under attack from ransomware: Servers, email, phones yanked offline
The Harris Federation learns infosec lessons the hard way
Security30 Mar 2021 | 25
The kids aren't all right: Fall in GCSE compsci students is bad news for employers and Britain's future growth plans
Student numbers have plunged 40% since 2015
Applications23 Mar 2021 | 109
Showering malware-laced laptops on UK schools is the wrong way to teach them about cybersecurity
Column The Department for Education needs to learn its lesson too
Security25 Jan 2021 | 79
The price is right? Capita confirms Education Software back in talks with new bidder
Must have lowered the asking price to one that isn't higher than entire group's market cap
Software27 Nov 2020 | 10
Capita still wants to offload education software unit, sale talks ongoing
Perhaps if you didn't price it higher than the market cap of the entire Group, you'd have sold it before now
Software10 Nov 2020 | 6
Report: UK colleges face testing times with ageing kit, iffy connectivity, and some IT staff supporting 1k+ users
Cloud-first but no 'resilient internet connection'? Oh dear
Security26 Oct 2020 | 14
Hong Kong wants to teach kids more STEM – once it's defined what that is
Stop us if you've heard this one before: Territory wants to snip subjects to squeeze in coding, but knows its teachers aren't up to the job
Software24 Sep 2020 | 14
UK govt reboots A Level exam results after computer-driven fiasco: Now teacher-predicted grades will be used after all
F**k the algorithm, indeed
Software17 Aug 2020 | 135
Modular edutech PC crew opens fresh Kano beans with expanded kit and accessories
Brit firm inks deal with Best Buy in US as it eyes government tenders abroad
Personal Tech14 Jul 2020 | 6