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A Funeral for Academic Freedom at UT: Five Videos from a Day of Grief, Witness, and Resistance, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.
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LinkedIn Scans Every Chrome User's Browser Extensions and Ties the Inventory to Their Professional Identity
Every time a professional opens LinkedIn in a Chrome-based browser today, hidden JavaScript silently probes their device for up to 6,278 installed browser extensions, encrypts the results, and transmits them to LinkedIn's servers — where they are attached to that user's verified name, employer, and c
Lowe’s and Home Depot are sharing customer data with law enforcement – FlowingData
The stores use Flock cameras to collect license plate data from cars entering parking lots. Law enforcement is tapping the data as a source for their growing surveillance systems. Jason Koebler for…
AI models are getting better at replacing cybersecurity pros on certain tasks
UK researchers find LLMs are learning to finish jobs faster and improving all the time
Opinion | Kill Canvas. Now.
Last Thursday, the inevitable happened. In the middle of finals at many colleges, a hacking group called ShinyHunters breached the security of Canvas, a widely used learning-management system (LMS), …
Smashing Security podcast #467: How ShinyHunters hacked the world’s biggest universities
Welcome to the largest educational data breach in history - affecting nearly 9,000 institutions, every Ivy League university, and 30 million students mid-finals. When Canvas's parent company refused to pay and announced they had deployed "security patches" instead, the hackers were less than impresse
An end to the reading wars? More US schools embrace phonics
Move over “Dick and Jane.” A different approach to teaching kids how to read is on the rise.For decades, two schools of thought have clashed on how to best teach children to read, with passionate backers on each side of the so-called reading wars. The battle has reached into homes via commercials for
Instructure reaches 'agreement' with ShinyHunters to stop data leak
Instructure, the edtech giant behind the widely popular Canvas learning management system (LMS), has reached an "agreement" with the ShinyHunters extortion group to prevent the data stolen in a recent breach from being leaked online. [...]
Screen Time Concerns Lead to Backlash Against Edtech Vetting Process
SCHOOL SOFTWARE SCRUTINY: Legislators have pushed back against cellphones in the classroom but are now focused on ensuring school software on devices ...
ShinyHunters: Instructure breach affects 275 million teachers and students | Mashable
ShinyHunters has struck yet again.
Palo Alto Networks firewall zero-day exploited for nearly a month
Palo Alto Networks warned customers that suspected state-sponsored hackers have been exploiting a critical-severity PAN-OS firewall zero-day vulnerability for nearly a month.
The Noise Inside the Quiet
Silence can be painfully loud and leaders who miss it, miss everything. Silence within a team is not a reliable indicator of agreement; more often, it reflects concern about potential consequences and peer judgment, where individuals make a calculated decision that speaking up is not worth the personal or professional risk. Gradually, this evolves into what many refer to as “shrinking.”
Shrinking is seldom an individual trait but a response shaped by team dynamics that, over time, makes staying quiet feel like the only safe choice.
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Personalised phishing attacks likely after global Canvas hack
With data potentially stolen from 200 million users at 9,000 institutions worldwide, staff and students told to be alert for more sophisticated attempts to steal data
School cellphone bans don't immediately improve academics, large study finds
The study compiled data from Yondr, a California startup that makes lockable pouches for schools, businesses and entertainment venues.
Vimeo data breach exposes personal information of 119,000 people
The ShinyHunters extortion gang stole personal information belonging to over 119,000 people after hacking the Vimeo online video platform in April, according to data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned. [...]
This Mini PC Delivers Big Specs in a Small Form Factor | Tom's Guide
PINETAB2 - 10.1" 8GB/128GB ARM based Linux tablet with detachable backlit keyboard - PINE STORE
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Cybersecurity Is an Equity Issue in K-12 Education - EdTech Digest
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 […]
Beware the unintended consequences of school screen time limits
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.
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Instructure discloses second data breach in less than a year
What Educators Really Think About the Overuse of Tech in Schools
Teachers and administrators express strong opinions about the downsides of tech use in school.
Beyond Red Pens: Tailoring Feedback for Diverse Learners
Three Chrome tools, Stickity, Beep, and ScreenPal, turn one-way feedback into real conversations between teachers and students.
Screen time in the early grades: a parent and teacher weigh in
The Hechinger Report’s recent webinar on tech uses shows many are looking for curbs on devices.
The U.S. Spent $30 Billion to Replace Textbooks with Screens. The Result: A First Generation Mentally Weaker than Its Parents
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.
Some States Are Banning Much More Than Phones in Schools. That’s a Huge Mistake – The 74
Culatta: Bills forbidding use of technology in the classroom will deny students essential skills and train them for a world that no longer exists
About the security content of iOS 26.4.2 and iPadOS 26.4.2 - Apple Support
This document describes the security content of iOS 26.4.2 and iPadOS 26.4.2.
Kill Yr Substack | Jason Cosper
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.