DuckDuckGo VPN Audit Shows It Doesn't Track Your Activity
DuckDuckGo has always promised complete privacy with its VPN, and an independent cybersecurity company agrees.
Scientists Use AI to Map Ocean Currents in Incredible Detail
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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(1) When Correlation Repeats Across 50 States: The NAEP Evidence Behind My Senate Testimony
How Reading and Math Trends Shift After State-by-State Digital Adoption
What Are We Actually Fixing When We Ban Devices?
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: A Growing Education Movement | edCircuit
Phone-free schools are gaining momentum as educators examine how smartphones affect learning, student attention, and classroom engagement.
Schools across America are quietly admitting that screens in classrooms made students worse off and are reversing years of tech-first policies
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 …
Ex-Meta worker investigated for downloading 30,000 private Facebook photos - DataBreaches.Net
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
Little Snitch, the macOS network tool, is now available on Linux
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 Meet is here to save your video calls from Big Tech's AI - Android Authority
Proton bundles its privacy-first tools into Workspace, adding encrypted, no-account video calls to challenge Zoom and Google.
ShinyHunters hacks school software firm Infinite Campus | Cybernews
ShinyHunters hacks Infinite Campus serving 11m students - threatens data leak
FCC Halts Imports of New Foreign Routers Over Security Threats - Council News
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NIST Overhauls DNS Security Guidance After 12 Years, Reflecting a Transformed Threat Landscape
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
Between the Proposal and the Protest
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Apple’s MacBook Neo Just Disrupted the Chromebook Era. Now Schools Have to Answer a Hard Question
Apple released the MacBook Neo this week.
War Never Built Anything
The gas chamber, the colonial whip, the ethnic cleansing. When the alternative is extermination, armed resistance is a moral imperative, not an instrument of progress.
I tested Omega Linux to see if it can revitalize an old PC, and it made Ubuntu distributions look bad
If you're looking for a distribution for an aging machine, consider walking through the Arch with Omega.Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google.ZDNET's key takeawaysOmega Linux is a …
Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester
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.
Check out "Nearby Glasses"
This app searches for smart glasses nearby and notifies you of their presence.
Sick of Microsoft and Google? This new European office suite is a private, open-source alternative
Built on open-source software, this European cloud office suite aims to keep your data out of Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace.Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google.ZDNET's key …
Office EU - Europe's Open-Source Productivity Suite
Welcome to Office EU, the open-source productivity platform for all who value a free, transparent and sovereign working environment.
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Learn To Think On Paper : Writing by Hand Slows Thinking for Clearer Ideas and Longer Recall
Writing by hand offers a unique way to engage your mind, fostering creativity and clarity in ways that digital methods often cannot. As Koi explains, thinking on paper allows you to explore ideas …
This high-severity Chrome Gemini vulnerability lets malicious extensions spy on your PC | ZDNET
A bug in Google Chrome's Gemini AI feature could expose your data or allow attackers to monitor you. Here's how to stay protected.
Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras | TechCrunch
While some cities are moving to end their contracts with Flock over its links to ICE, others are taking matters into their own hands.
Is Flock Mass Surveillance? Here's What 30 Courts Decided
Flock ALPRs do not and cannot track vehicles, much less individual people. ALPRs take a point-in-time image of the rear of vehicles on public roadways. They are incapable of tracking the whole of anyone’s movements, a determination that has been consistently made by Courts across the country.
Samsung finally lets you pick your AI assistant on Galaxy phones - Digital Trends
Samsung is adding Perplexity as a second system-level AI agent on Galaxy phones with a dedicated "Hey Plex" wake word and side button control.
How Inquiry-Based Freewriting Can Deepen Student Writing | Cult of Pedagogy
Adding freewriting to a unit can build students' writing confidence and make their writing more authentic, fluent, and complex.
Full article: What Explains the Relations Between Reading Comprehension and Written Composition? Findings from a Longitudinal Study
This study investigated the relation between reading comprehension and written composition in Grade 2, as well as how language and literacy skills explain this connection. Additionally, it explored...