ai and ml College prof hides prompt to catch AI cheaters, finds human nature is pretty much as we thought
AI and ML Brown says AI make student brain no work good, teacher should help use it better Take-home midterm row sharpens fears that the tools are dulling minds and easing cheating
PUBLIC SECTOR Northern Ireland tries (again) to expel Capita from schools IT contract New procurement could be worth £851M after previous Fujitsu award was scrapped
PUBLIC SECTOR India blocks Telegram ahead of scandal-hit medical school entrance exam 2.3 million people sit test chasing 100,000 places, and country already canceled it once this year
Cyber-crime Malware scare keeps schoolkids home for a second day Great Marlow restricts network access while it investigates suspected infection
Cyber-crime Ransomware sends Illinois high school on an early summer vacation Meanwhile, 13 schools in Wales affected by separate attack
Security Hackers ate my homework: Educational SaaS Canvas down after cyberattack ShinyHunters takes the credit and gives developer an F for security
AI + ML GitHub infuriates students by removing some models from free Copilot plan Coding education may become a bit more challenging, but the economics lesson is free
Security Building the UK’s next generation of cyber talent Reflecting on the relaunch of the UK Cyber Team and introducing the next phase of leadership
AI + ML Anthropic wants comp-sci students to vibe code their way through college By partnering with CodePath, AI biz aims to modernize how people learn to program
Off-Prem Pakistan to test students for real-world skills before they graduate from IT degrees Government decides theoretical knowledge vs. experience debate is worth settling
Cyber-crime Warwickshire school to reopen after cyberattack crippled IT Kids return to classrooms after safety infrastructure knocked out
Cyber-crime Students bag extended Christmas break after cyber hit on school IT Phones, email, and core systems knocked out at Higham Lane in Nuneaton
AI + ML Purdue makes 'AI working competency' a graduation requirement GPT-before-GPA plan has faculty and students scratching their heads
Public Sector England keeping pen and paper exams despite limited digital expansion Regulator proposes strict limits on screen-based testing, cites infrastructure concerns and lack of evidence for benefits
Cyber-crime FTC schools edtech outfit after intruder walked off with 10M student records Regulator says Illuminate ignored years of warnings, stored kids' data in plain text, and kept districts in the dark
Networks Networking students need an explanation of the internet that can fit in their heads Networks have changed profoundly, except for the parts that haven’t
SaaS Microsoft 'illegally' tracked students via 365 Education, says data watchdog Redmond argued schools, education authorities are responsible for GDPR
AI + ML This is your brain on bots: AI interaction may hurt students more than it helps More kids see AI as a friend or romantic interest, but few teachers know how to deal with the fallout, study finds
Cybersecurity Month Schools are swotting up on security yet still flunk recovery when cyberattacks strike Coursework 'gone forever' as 10% report critical damage
Cyber-crime Callous crims break into preschool network, publish toddlers' data Images of toddlers and home addresses leaked in reprehensible landmark attack
Offbeat 1,200 undergrads hung out to dry after jailbreak attack on laundry machines Dorm management refuses to cover costs after payment system borked
Cyber-crime Hack to school: Parents told to keep their little script kiddies in line UK data watchdog says students behind most education cyberattacks
Security Flu jab email mishap exposes hundreds of students' personal data One parent expressed concern for their child's safety
Public Sector UK schools give system supplier Bromcom an F for Azure uptime Management software stumbles at start of term, leaving staff unable to track attendance or reach parents
Cyber-crime Knock-on effects of software dev break-in hit schools trust Affinity Learning Partnership warns staff after Intradev breach
OSes Microsoft gives in to Chromebook bullies and drops Windows 11 SE Budget educational computing is now Google's game to lose
AI + ML 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 + ML UK students flock to AI to help them cheat No need to plagiarize if you can have AI do it for you
Public Sector As AI gallops through the federal workforce, lawmakers once again call for expanded training The last effort never went anywhere
Science American science put on starvation diet National Science Foundation FY 2026 budget cut by more than 60%
Cyber-crime 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-crime Scottish council admits ransomware crooks stole school data Parents and teachers have personal info, ID documents leaked online, but exam season mostly unaffected
Science 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
CSO PowerSchool paid thieves to delete stolen student, teacher data. Looks like crooks lied Now individual school districts extorted by fiends
AI Software Development Week 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
Public Sector Tech suppliers await final grade as Trump prepares to flunk Department of Education Vendors with millions in federal contracts are watching nervously
Science Revenge of the nerds: Teachers, professors sue to undo Trump science funding cuts Who needs studies into diseases, virus infections, US mortality rates ... right?
Cyber-crime Attackers swipe data of 500k+ people from Pennsylvania teachers union SSNs, payment details, and health info too
CSO Cybersecurity not the hiring-'em-like-hotcakes role it once was Ghost positions, HR AI no help – biz should talk to infosec staff and create 'realistic' job outline, say experts
Networks Tech jobs are now white-collar trades that need apprentices, not a career crawl With a generation of networking engineers set to retire, is this how to give their successors a faster start?
Cyber-crime PowerSchool theft latest: Decades of Canadian student records, data from 40-plus US states feared stolen Lawsuits pile up after database accessed by miscreants
Cyber-crime Ransomware attack forces Brit high school to shut doors Students have work to complete at home in the meantime
Cyber-crime Database tables of student, teacher info stolen from PowerSchool in cyberattack Class act: Cloud biz only serves 60M-plus folks globally, no biggie
Virtualization 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
Software Academic papers yanked after authors found to have used unlicensed software Dam, the consequences
Science Arecibo telescope might have failed because of weak sockets Electromagnetic radiation contributed to that zincing feeling: analysts
AI + ML Parents take school to court after student punished for using AI Claims their child will 'suffer irreparable harm' if the record stays
Security Mind the talent gap: Infosec vacancies abound, but hiring is flat ISC2 argues security training needs to steer toward what hiring managers want
AI + ML Brit teachers are getting AI sidekicks to help with marking and lesson plans Isn't the education system in enough trouble already?
CSO 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
Cyber-crime Attacker steals personal data of 200K+ people with links to Arizona tech school Nearly 50 different data points were accessed by cybercrim
Security MDM vendor Mobile Guardian attacked, leading to remote wiping of 13,000 devices Singapore Ministry of Education orders software removed after string of snafus
Personal Tech An attorney says she saw her library reading habits reflected in mobile ads. That's not supposed to happen Follow us down this deep rabbit hole of privacy policy after privacy policy
Cyber-crime Cops cuff man for allegedly framing colleague with AI-generated hate speech clip Athletics boss accused of deep-faking Baltimore school principal
Legal Netherlands arm of KPMG fined $25M for cheating in exams Staff followed US lead and shared answers after move to online testing
OSes 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
Channel VMware by Broadcom promises more, cheaper, training, starting around May But for now, smaller customers have been cut off from on-demand training content
Personal Tech 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
SaaS Duke Uni libraries decamp from 37Signals' Basecamp over CTO's blogs We're canceling our subscriptions, say librarians citing co-founder's views
Public Sector Ex-school IT admin binned student, staff accounts and trashed phone system After getting the tintack, IRL BOFH went rogue
Bootnotes 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'
AI + ML 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
Bootnotes 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
On-Prem Microsoft creates a new kind of credential: the 'Applied Skill' Shorter and more specific than certifications, but still tied to Microsoft products. Would you do one?
Software 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
Software This profiler chatbot promises to help speed up your Python – we can believe it Scalene, Scalene, Scalene, Scalene, I'm beggin' of you please improve my code
CSO University cuts itself off from internet after mystery security snafu Halls of learning are stuck offline, but go Wolverines!
Black Hat and DEF CON Bomb scare causes mass evacuation at DEF CON Summer Camp is over and what has been done? Have aspirations shriveled in the Sun?
Cyber-crime Cyber-extortionists pillage Colorado education dept Hey, breacher, leave those kids alone
Personal Tech 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'
PaaS + IaaS 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
AI + ML 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 + ML Plagiarism-sniffing Turnitin tries to find AI writing by students – with mixed grades Claims 98% confidence, tests suggest a human touch will beat the teachers
Security School principal resigns after writing $100,000 check to Elon Musk impersonator ALSO: DJI forgets the 'B' in 'BCC,' and this week's critical known exploits
Networks 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
Security Chromebook SH1MMER exploit promises admin jailbreak Schools' laptops are out if this one gets around, tho beware bricking
On-Prem China stops recognizing online study, orders kids back to foreign unis PLUS: NTT’s haptics advance; Australia cracks down on influencers; Korean Uni websites hit by Chinese protestors; and more
Databases 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
Government Tech Week CISA sends schools back to the classroom on security Oy, teacher, protect those kids online
AI + ML ChatGPT talks its way through Wharton MBA, medical exams This perhaps says more about the tests than the artificial intelligence on display
Security University of Texas latest US school to ban TikTok Great, now staff and students can stop scrolling and get back to work
Security 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
Personal Tech 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
AI + ML AI programming assistants mean rethinking computer science education Boffins say educators need to deal with opportunities and risks of GitHub Copilot and pals
Science Collapsed Arecibo telescope to be replaced by school Space scientists lament loss, say it won't be the same without actual working instruments
Cyber-crime US school year opens with reading, writing, and ransomware FBI warns that Vice Society threat group is ramping up attacks on the education sector
Science US plans to open up government-funded science research papers to all Remembering Aaron Swartz
Personal Tech 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
Applications Education officials urged to curb student snoopware Or just see it as preparing them for the future
Systems Engineers on the brink of extinction threaten entire tech ecosystems Resting on its laurels is costing the industry its hardies
Software UK Department for Education to schools: Maybe delay signing that 3-year licensing deal for MIS with Education Software Solutions
Applications Education Software Solutions tells school customers: We are moving to 3-year licensing contracts and so are you
Databases Sheffield Uni cooks up classic IT disaster in £30m student project: Shifting scope, leadership changes, sunk cost fallacy
AI + ML Using 'AI-based software like Proctorio and ProctorU' to monitor online exams is a really bad idea, says uni panel
Channel Massive tech-for-British-schoolkids cash pot up for grabs as UK education buyers prep £140m agreement
Science All that Lego has a purpose: Researchers find that spatial memory improves kids' mathematical powers
Devops Lambda School, a coding bootcamp that takes a cut of your next tech salary, now takes a 30% cut in staff
Bootnotes British IT teacher gets three-year ban after boozing with students at strip club during school trip to Costa Rica
Legal Customs raid rumbles black market for primary school e-learning materials in fiercely competitive Hong Kong
Security And that's yet another UK education body under attack from ransomware: Servers, email, phones yanked offline
Applications The kids aren't all right: Fall in GCSE compsci students is bad news for employers and Britain's future growth plans
Security Showering malware-laced laptops on UK schools is the wrong way to teach them about cybersecurity
Security Report: UK colleges face testing times with ageing kit, iffy connectivity, and some IT staff supporting 1k+ users
Software UK govt reboots A Level exam results after computer-driven fiasco: Now teacher-predicted grades will be used after all
Science Y'know how everyone hated it when tuition fees went up? Cutting them now could harm science, say UK Lords
Security What's long, hard, and full of seamen? The US Navy's latest cybersecurity war gaming classes
Security How to make people sit up and use 2-factor auth: Show 'em a vid reusing a toothbrush to scrub a toilet – then compare it to password reuse
Security Perv raided college girls' online accounts for nude snaps – by cracking their security questions
Security College fires IT admin, loses access to Google email, successfully sues IT admin for $250,000
On-Prem US tech college ITT is not pining for the fjords. It is no more. It has gone and met its maker
