Rising digital threats are exposing stark disparities among school systems, where limited resources hinder recovery efforts and leave the most vulnerable learners facing the greatest consequences. GUEST COLUMN | by Björn Hall When Baltimore County Public Schools got breached in November 2020, the district stayed offline for three days. And while it might not seem […]

With school phone bans of various sorts now underway in 41 states and counting, debates on classroom screen time have shifted focus to the devices ostensibly being used for educational purposes: Chromebooks, iPads, and the like. In response to all the tech backlash, state policymakers are taking swift action, some of which is warranted, but much of which bears signs of legislative haste.

Teachers and administrators express strong opinions about the downsides of tech use in school.

Three Chrome tools, Stickity, Beep, and ScreenPal, turn one-way feedback into real conversations between teachers and students.

The Hechinger Report’s recent webinar on tech uses shows many are looking for curbs on devices.

For the first time in modern history, a generation scores lower than the one that raised it. The reason sits on every school desk in America.

Culatta: Bills forbidding use of technology in the classroom will deny students essential skills and train them for a world that no longer exists

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I’ve been tired of Substack platforming white supremacists, Nazis, neo-confederates, and so many of the worst people on the internet for a long time now.

Cell division is one of the most basic processes in biology, occurring in every living body at all times. This video makes it look almost otherworldly once you actually see it unfold in real time.

DuckDuckGo has always promised complete privacy with its VPN, and an independent cybersecurity company agrees.

Understanding ocean currents is important for work such as weather forecasting, climate research, search-and-rescue operations and oil spill response.The shifting patterns of ocean currents shape our climate and weather. Even today, understanding how ocean currents behave is challenging. But research

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How Reading and Math Trends Shift After State-by-State Digital Adoption

Phone-free schools are gaining momentum as educators examine how smartphones affect learning, student attention, and classroom engagement.

When McPherson Middle School in central Kansas banned cell phones in school four years ago, they didn’t reconsider their school-issued Google Chromebooks that were actively being used in the …

Laura Cress reports: A former Meta employee suspected of downloading around 30,000 private images of Facebook users is being investigated by the Metropolitan Po

A Linux version of Little Snitch, the iconic network monitoring and firewall tool for macOS, has been released. Little Snitch for Linux is written in Rust

Proton bundles its privacy-first tools into Workspace, adding encrypted, no-account video calls to challenge Zoom and Google.

ShinyHunters hacks Infinite Campus serving 11m students - threatens data leak

In a significant update to federal cybersecurity policy, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a new version of its long-standing Domain Name System (DNS) security guidance—marking the first major revision in over a decade. The newly published SP 800-81 Revision 3, t

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Apple released the MacBook Neo this week.

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