Collaborate Disseminate
Longtime Slashdot reader theodp writes: Past corporate-sponsored Hour of Code tutorials for the nation’s schoolchildren have blurred the lines between coding lessons and product infomercials. So too is the case again with this year’s newly-announced Ho… Continue reading Is the ‘Hour of Code’ the New 30-Minute Saturday Morning Cartoon Commercial?
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: A federal court yesterday ruled against parents who sued a Massachusetts school district for punishing their son who used an artificial intelligence tool to complete an assignment. Dale and Jennife… Continue reading School Did Nothing Wrong When It Punished Student For Using AI, Court Rules
schwit1 writes: Undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting next fall, thanks to newly expanded financial aid. Eighty percent of American households meet this income threshold.
And for the 50 percen… Continue reading MIT Undergrads With Family Income Below $200K Can Attend Tuition-free In 2025
While master’s degrees are increasingly popular — with 40% of U.S. bachelor’s degree holders now having postgraduate credentials — new research reveals many don’t deliver improved earnings despite soaring costs.
Analysis from the U.S. and UK indica… Continue reading Is Your Master’s Degree Useless?
GitHub is calling on maintainers of open source projects to apply for the newly opened Secure Open Source Fund, to get funding and knowledge to improve the security and sustainability of their software. The program is funded by companies (AmEx Chaingua… Continue reading GitHub Secure Open Source Fund: Project maintainers, apply now!
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Nature: Google Scholar — the largest and most comprehensive scholarly search engine — turns 20 this week. Over its two decades, some researchers say, the tool has become one of the most important in science. B… Continue reading Can Google Scholar Survive the AI Revolution?
Evgenii Ptitsyn is said to have helped operate a ransomware-as-a-service organization that extorted millions from more than 1K victims, including schools and hospitals.
The post Alleged Russian Phobos ransomware administrator extradited to U.S., in custody appeared first on CyberScoop.
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Most companies are starting to figure out how AI will change the way they do business. Chegg is trying to avoid becoming its first major victim. WSJ: The online education company was for many years the go-to source for students who wanted help with the… Continue reading How ChatGPT Brought Down an Online Education Giant
In this Help Net Security interview, Julie Madhusoodanan, Head of CyberSecurity at LinkedIn, discusses how closing the gender gap could enhance cybersecurity’s effectiveness in combating emerging threats. With women still underrepresented in cybersecur… Continue reading The cybersecurity gender gap: How diverse teams improve threat response
The ‘down the rabbit hole’ online-search behaviors of nearly 500,000 people from 50 countries has shed new light on how mood, education level, gender, background and culture influence how we sate our curiosity and seek out new knowledge. So we ask: Are… Continue reading What your Wikipedia browsing style says about you