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.

This is part of PEN America’s ongoing “Snapshots of Censorship” project. Read more and share your story here.Earlier this year, I was told by university administrators at Texas A&M to remove a reading from Plato’s Symposium from my introduction to philosophy course. The reason? Because the reading di

An April 9, 2026, memo from Texas Tech University system chancellor Brandon Creighton imposed extraordinary censorship about gender-related issues on campus. It may be the worst restriction on …

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

Educational failure doesn’t begin with technology, but with pedagogy. Devices don’t teach. Teachers do. The quality of instruction is the filter through which every tool either sharpens learning or exposes what was never there to begin with.

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

Gretna East High School junior Nicholas Mitchell filed an appeal yesterday with the Gretna Public Schools Board of Education, asking them to reverse the recent censorship of an editorial cartoon and to establish a district policy that lets student editors determine the content of school-sponsored student media without prior review.

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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Shuttering a women’s studies program, overhauling a gender studies program and cancelling courses focused on race and gender is an attack on all feminist movements and women everywhere.

Privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media.

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