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 Personal Tech04 Dec 2023 | 10
Duke Uni libraries decamp from 37Signals' Basecamp over CTO's blogs We're canceling our subscriptions, say librarians citing co-founder's views SaaS01 Dec 2023 | 43
Ex-school IT admin binned student, staff accounts and trashed phone system After getting the tintack, IRL BOFH went rogue Public Sector01 Dec 2023 | 56
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' Bootnotes29 Nov 2023 | 15
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 AI + ML22 Nov 2023 | 62
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 Bootnotes28 Oct 2023 | 41
Microsoft creates a new kind of credential: the 'Applied Skill' Poll Shorter and more specific than certifications, but still tied to Microsoft products. Would you do one? On-Prem26 Oct 2023 | 13
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 Software15 Sep 2023 | 1
This profiler chatbot promises to help speed up your Python – we can believe it Interview Scalene, Scalene, Scalene, Scalene, I'm beggin' of you please improve my code Software30 Aug 2023 | 12
University cuts itself off from internet after mystery security snafu Updated Halls of learning are stuck offline, but go Wolverines! CSO29 Aug 2023 | 21
Bomb scare causes mass evacuation at DEF CON DEF CON Summer Camp is over and what has been done? Have aspirations shriveled in the Sun? Black Hat and DEF CON14 Aug 2023 | 6
Cyber-extortionists pillage Colorado education dept Hey, breacher, leave those kids alone Cyber-crime08 Aug 2023 | 7
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' Personal Tech08 Aug 2023 | 41
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 PaaS + IaaS04 Jul 2023 | 7
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 + ML17 May 2023 | 107
Plagiarism-sniffing Turnitin tries to find AI writing by students – with mixed grades Updated Claims 98% confidence, tests suggest a human touch will beat the teachers AI + ML05 Apr 2023 | 42
School principal resigns after writing $100,000 check to Elon Musk impersonator In Brief ALSO: DJI forgets the 'B' in 'BCC,' and this week's critical known exploits Security03 Apr 2023 | 90
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 Networks13 Mar 2023 | 7
Chromebook SH1MMER exploit promises admin jailbreak Schools' laptops are out if this one gets around, tho beware bricking Security30 Jan 2023 | 14
China stops recognizing online study, orders kids back to foreign unis Asia In Brief PLUS: NTT’s haptics advance; Australia cracks down on influencers; Korean Uni websites hit by Chinese protestors; and more On-Prem30 Jan 2023 | 6
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 Databases27 Jan 2023 | 11
CISA sends schools back to the classroom on security Oy, teacher, protect those kids online Government Tech Week25 Jan 2023 | 1
ChatGPT talks its way through Wharton MBA, medical exams This perhaps says more about the tests than the artificial intelligence on display AI + ML24 Jan 2023 | 40
University of Texas latest US school to ban TikTok Great, now staff and students can stop scrolling and get back to work Security19 Jan 2023 | 27
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 Security29 Nov 2022 | 1
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 Personal Tech25 Nov 2022 | 1
AI programming assistants mean rethinking computer science education Analysis Boffins say educators need to deal with opportunities and risks of GitHub Copilot and pals AI + ML20 Oct 2022 | 27
Collapsed Arecibo telescope to be replaced by school Space scientists lament loss, say it won't be the same without actual working instruments Science17 Oct 2022 | 40
US school year opens with reading, writing, and ransomware FBI warns that Vice Society threat group is ramping up attacks on the education sector Cyber-crime07 Sep 2022 | 8
US plans to open up government-funded science research papers to all Remembering Aaron Swartz Science25 Aug 2022 | 16
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 Personal Tech16 Aug 2022 | 61
Education officials urged to curb student snoopware Or just see it as preparing them for the future Applications04 Aug 2022 | 7
Engineers on the brink of extinction threaten entire tech ecosystems Opinion Resting on its laurels is costing the industry its hardies Systems18 Jul 2022 | 260
Big Tech bosses call for computer science to be taught in all US schools If we're gonna have robot overlords, might as well learn why they crash Software13 Jul 2022 | 51
More and more CS students are interested in AI – and there aren't enough lecturers Brain drain of researchers flocking to industry is not the real problem here, report suggests AI + ML07 Jul 2022 | 18
Is computer vision the cure for school shootings? Likely not Comment Gun-detecting AI outfits want to help while root causes need tackling AI + ML28 Jun 2022 | 100
Indian developer educator Scaler moves to America with $11k online courses MOOC dropouts, boot camp avoiders, and college-averse students sought Software09 Jun 2022 | 5
Taser maker offers electric-shock drones to stop school shootings For $50,000 annually plus building work, budget-strapped teachers can (maybe) zap gunmen, for the kids Personal Tech03 Jun 2022 | 192
Stolen university credentials up for sale by Russian crooks, FBI warns Forget dark-web souks, thousands of these are already being traded on public bazaars Cyber-crime27 May 2022 | 3
FTC signals crackdown on ed-tech harvesting kid's data Trade watchdog, and President, reminds that COPPA can ban ya Personal Tech20 May 2022 | 9
UK competition watchdog probes school software contract revisions Former Capita-owned ESS' minimum 3-year deals put under spotlight by CMA Software27 Apr 2022 | 13
IT outage at Scotland's Heriot-Watt University enters second week Multiple systems remain down as spokesperson confirms 'security incident' was cyber attack Security24 Mar 2022 | 40
Intel details $100m plan to boost US chip-making skills Bold moves to create a 'semi' literate pool of factory workers On-Prem17 Mar 2022 |
Boys outnumber girls 6 to 1 in UK compsci classes Despite girls outperforming boys when they choose the subject Software16 Mar 2022 | 159
Users sound off as new Google Workspace for Education storage limits near But should free tier users in universities not invest in their own IT infrastructure? Storage10 Feb 2022 | 73
Employers in denial over success of digital skills training, say exasperated staffers Large disparities in views from bosses vs workers on 'talent transformation initiatives,' says survey Off-Prem25 Jan 2022 | 26
UK Department for Education to schools: Maybe delay signing that 3-year licensing deal for MIS with Education Software Solutions ESS boss says 'longer agreement terms... increasingly standard' in the sector Software19 Nov 2021 | 24
Education Software Solutions tells school customers: We are moving to 3-year licensing contracts and so are you Updated Some punters not happy with former Capita-owned biz, now under control of Montagu Private Equity Applications16 Nov 2021 | 28
Sheffield Uni cooks up classic IT disaster in £30m student project: Shifting scope, leadership changes, sunk cost fallacy And in the end, policy tweaks made most of it unnecessary Databases16 Nov 2021 | 106
Mobile mobile museum looks to chart the history of portable phones 25-year-strong collection of 2,000 handsets covers 1984 to the present day Personal Tech22 Sep 2021 | 14
Still divided on whether teachers, parents or politicians are to blame Register Debate Can we close the education divide? Maybe, but not by stuffing it with computers and smart boards SaaS17 Sep 2021 | 15
Technology doesn’t widen the education divide. People do that Register Debate And no, we don’t want a generation of early-years coders SaaS16 Sep 2021 | 53
Technology does widen the education divide. But not always in the way you expect Register Debate The pandemic has turned children away from tech, says early-years teacher Maria SaaS15 Sep 2021 | 29
Technology has the potential to close the education divide. Key word: Potential Register Debate Quieter kids can speak up in chat, students can record lessons to watch again, and more, says professor SaaS14 Sep 2021 | 38
Tech widens the educational divide. And I should know – I'm a teacher in a pandemic Register Debate Teaching online is like talking to a brick wall SaaS13 Sep 2021 | 105
Using 'AI-based software like Proctorio and ProctorU' to monitor online exams is a really bad idea, says uni panel Updated Academics find algorithmic surveillance just isn't worth it AI + ML20 Aug 2021 | 44
Exoskeleton startup wants to slap robot arms on schoolkids For educational purposes, of course Personal Tech01 Jul 2021 | 16
Massive tech-for-British-schoolkids cash pot up for grabs as UK education buyers prep £140m agreement It is Thursday and it's framework-tastic Channel03 Jun 2021 | 11
Stack Overflow acquired for $1.8bn by Prosus (no, me neither) Q&A community ponders life as an enterprise education resource Devops02 Jun 2021 | 44
All that Lego has a purpose: Researchers find that spatial memory improves kids' mathematical powers Textbooks aren't everything Science21 May 2021 | 27
Lambda School, a coding bootcamp that takes a cut of your next tech salary, now takes a 30% cut in staff Plus: Workers axed at '$4bn' Patreon, techies walk away from Basecamp Devops30 Apr 2021 | 22
British IT teacher gets three-year ban after boozing with students at strip club during school trip to Costa Rica Watchdog deemed Richard Glenn's conduct 'unacceptable' Bootnotes23 Apr 2021 | 59