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How to Inspire K-12 Students to Study in Computing Disciplines in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Byte-A-Dynamo Workshops

computer.org Vanessa Castro 2025-09-30 23:15:55

Software engineering shouldn’t be gatekept to people who can afford an expensive degree. Recently, one group has been working hard to expand artificial intelligence (AI) and computer science teaching to students (ages 10-16) from low-income families in Maryland who have no or minimal computing backgrounds. Computing isn’t just for the elite; it’s for anyone with curiosity and creativity. But resources and training aren’t always widely accessible. That’s why a series of free workshops was introd

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From burner phones to decks of cards: NYC teens adjusting to the smartphone ban

news.ycombinator.com Https 2025-10-01 08:39:43

New York City students are one week into the statewide phone ban. Gothamist reporters checked in with teens across the district to see how they are adapting. Here's how they are handling their disconnected days. Lower-tech life Polaroids, walkie-talkies and decks of cards: New York City teens said these are some of the hot items circulating in schools now that the statewide smartphone ban is in effect. Alia Soliman, a senior at Bronx Science, said cards “are making a big comeback.” She said kids

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Children hacking their own schools for 'fun', watchdog warns

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-10-02 16:59:34

Children hacking their own schools for 'fun', watchdog warns "What starts out as a dare, a challenge, a bit of fun in a school setting can ultimately lead to children taking part in damaging attacks on organisations or critical infrastructure," said Heather Toomey, Principal Cyber Specialist at the ICO. It is warning teachers that they are failing to understand and recognise what it calls the "insider threat" pupils pose. School children and college students are carrying out hacks and accessi

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US High school students' scores fall in reading and math

news.ycombinator.com Ma Is An Associated Press National Writer Who Covers Education. 2025-10-04 14:45:46

WASHINGTON (AP) — A decade-long slide in high schoolers’ reading and math performance persisted during the COVID-19 pandemic, with 12th graders’ scores dropping to their lowest level in more than 20 years, according to results released Tuesday from an exam known as the nation’s report card. Eighth-grade students also lost significant ground in science skills, according to the results from the National Assessment of Education Progress. The assessments were the first since the pandemic for eight

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US HS students lose ground in math and reading, continuing yearslong decline

news.ycombinator.com Ma Is An Associated Press National Writer Who Covers Education. 2025-10-06 16:45:46

WASHINGTON (AP) — A decade-long slide in high schoolers’ reading and math performance persisted during the COVID-19 pandemic, with 12th graders’ scores dropping to their lowest level in more than 20 years, according to results released Tuesday from an exam known as the nation’s report card. Eighth-grade students also lost significant ground in science skills, according to the results from the National Assessment of Education Progress. The assessments were the first since the pandemic for eight

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‘Free Speech’ University in Austin Makes Freshmen Read Palantir CEO’s Deep Thoughts

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-10-08 08:30:04

In 2021, “intellectual dark web” OG and Israeli-government stan Bari Weiss announced the launch of her own university. In case you don’t remember, the “intellectual dark web” was a term coined by one of its own proponents (Eric Weinstein) and used to market a breed of new pundits and influencers, like Joe Rogan, who sprang up during the first Trump administration. These pundits dared to share provocative perspectives that, according to them, no one else had the courage to voice—stuff like multic

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How Yichao “Peak” Ji became a global AI app hitmaker

technologyreview.com Caiwei Chen 2025-10-09 16:30:00

At first sight, Manus works like most chatbots: Users can ask it questions in a chat window. However, besides providing answers, it can also carry out tasks (for example, finding an apartment that meets specified criteria within a certain budget). It does this by breaking tasks down into steps, then using a cloud-based virtual machine equipped with a browser and other tools to execute them—perusing websites, filling in forms, and so on. Ji is the technical core of the team. Now based in Singapo

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Score Insane Student Deals on Laptops and Gaming Consoles at AliExpress

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-10 07:15:00

With prices rising for just about everything these days, back-to-school shopping might feel a little more stressful than usual. Thankfully you can find incredible deals on all the tech you need at AliExpress, the global marketplace. AliExpress uses direct sourcing in order to offer eye-popping prices on laptops, headphones, gaming devices and everything you'll need to crush it at school (and after school) this year. And through August 28, you can unlock extra savings on their already low prices

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The best VPNs for school in 2025: Expert tested and reviewed

zdnet.com Charlie Osborne 2025-10-11 16:00:22

As you go back to using school or campus Wi-Fi, always remember the disappointments with these networks. You can't reliably used them to access sites like Netflix, Spotify, or YouTube. They say it's so that to conserve bandwidth, minimize study distractions, or for whatever reason. Sometimes you can't even download educational material from legit sites. More often, students use VPNs to survive the boredom -- and you can too. A virtual private network (VPN) enables you to circumvent school or co

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Texas sues PowerSchool over breach exposing 62M students, 880k Texans

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-12 16:01:31

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against education software company PowerSchool, which suffered a massive data breach in December that exposed the personal information of 62 million students, including over 880,000 Texans. PowerSchool is a cloud-based software solutions provider for K-12 schools and districts, with more than 18,000 customers and supporting over 60 million students worldwide. In January, the education software giant disclosed that its PowerSource customer s

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Tech Utopians Are Using a Chinese-Built ‘Ghost City’ to Trial Their Network State Fantasies

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-10-17 04:30:10

For the better part of a decade, tech investor Balaji Srinivasan has been calling for Silicon Valley to “secede” from the rest of the United States. The free-market tech guru doesn’t just want space from regulators and government officials; he literally wants the industry’s coders and bigwigs to split off and crowdfund their own separate country. Over the years, Srinivasan has articulated his own political philosophy, which he calls “the network state” movement—an anarcho-capitalist school of t

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The Government Is Preparing to Take Away Your SSRIs

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-13 22:09:21

Image by Chip Somodevilla / Getty / Futurism Mental Health Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the well-heeled crackpot helming our nation's healthcare system, holds all kinds of screwball beliefs about pharmaceuticals — but his bizarre and incoherent opposition to depression-treating selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) is perhaps the most indefensible. Since at least 2023, when Kennedy first launched his long-shot presidential campaign, the conspiracy theorist has insisted there is some sort

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Why Romania excels in international Olympiads

news.ycombinator.com Jordan Lasker 2025-10-20 16:09:43

Olympiads are international student intellectual competitions in which students from across the world go toe-to-toe answering questions in mathematics, physics, informatics, chemistry, and more. The best performers tend to be from countries like China, the United States, India, and Japan. But, somehow, the southeastern European country of Romania also frequently tops the list. Since 2020, Romania’s performance in the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) has been nothing short of amazing. I

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Watch Our Livestream Replay: Back to School in the Age of AI

wired.com Scott Gilbertson 2025-10-23 12:28:46

Everyone has a stake in how tech is shaping education today. From the tech moguls and venture capitalists who are starting “microschools” and building ed-tech tools to policymakers who are writing bills to safeguard kids online and teachers who are getting creative about using AI for school. WIRED explored all this and more in our recent back-to-school digital edition, which was the topic of our subscriber-only livestream on Thursday, August 28, 2025. Hosted by WIRED's features director, Reyhan

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The Unforgotten

news.ycombinator.com Tom Junod 2025-10-20 13:22:52

Open Extended Reactions THEY WERE BOTH SO YOUNG. One would be entering his old age now, with most of a long life behind him. The other would just be entering his senior year in high school, working to fulfill a life of great promise. A vast gulf of time separates them. But nobody knows them now except by memory, so time is also what ties them together. And it is time that tells their story. They were both so young, are both so young still. In the early days of football, President Theodore

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South Korea bans smartphones in all middle and elementary school classrooms

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-26 15:37:42

South Korean lawmakers have banned smartphones and other smart devices in elementary and middle school classrooms, The New York Times reports. The law goes into effect in 2026. The legislation only outlaws these devices during class hours and there are no stipulations regarding punishment for violators. The law does, however, give principals and teachers the power to stop students from carrying or using a phone on school grounds. Additionally, students are able to use smart devices during emerg

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Study: Sex Education in the U.S. Is a Complete Joke

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-10-28 08:40:16

New research appears to confirm what’s apparent to most anyone who’s taken sex ed in school: it’s largely terrible. Scientists at Boston University led the study, which examined state laws and regulations governing sexual education in public schools. They found that a majority of states mandate schools to teach flawed and ineffective abstinence-based programs, while only some truly require schools to provide medically accurate information. The findings suggest that kids, by and large, aren’t ge

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Instagram’s new feature helps college students connect with others on campus

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-10-29 03:00:00

Instagram is introducing a new feature aimed at helping college students connect with people on campus, the company announced on Tuesday. The launch comes a week after TikTok rolled out a nearly identical feature. The new option allows students in the U.S. to add their college or university to their profile banner and browse a list of students at their school. Students will see an ‘Add School’ option on their profile, which they can click to complete a verification process through the student

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16 Best Back-to-School Deals for 2025

wired.com Louryn Strampe 2025-10-30 23:25:45

It's “back to school” season for some and “been back in school” season for others, but regardless of your specific situation, now is the time of year when retailers are discounting all the school essentials. We've hunted down discounts on the best back-to-school gear our reviewers have hand-tested, from laptops and mattress toppers to bags and chairs. Be sure to check out our related guides, including the Best Back-to-School Laptop Deals, the Best Dorm Gear, and the Best Kids Backpacks. You mig

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Florida Schools Deploying Armed Drones to Battle School Shooters

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-31 19:15:27

There's no need to fear, for emergency drone swarms are here. To combat school shootings, three districts in Florida are set to trial a drone response system that's designed to subdue an assailant and buy time before law enforcement can arrive at the scene, Newsweek reports. It sounds like something you'd see in a satirical ad in a "Robocop" movie, but no — it's real. The drones can spring into operation within five seconds of a silent alarm being activated, and confront the shooter within fif

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Everything is correlated (2014–23)

news.ycombinator.com Hodges 2025-11-01 23:05:53

“Why summaries of research on psychological theories are often uninterpretable”, Meehl (also discussed in Cohen’s paper “The Earth is Round (p < 0.05)”): Problem 6. Crud factor: In the social sciences and arguably in the biological sciences, “everything correlates to some extent with everything else.” This truism, which I have found no competent psychologist disputes given 5 minutes reflection, does not apply to pure experimental studies in which attributes that the subjects bring with them are

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Everything Is Correlated

news.ycombinator.com Hodges 2025-11-03 04:05:53

“Why summaries of research on psychological theories are often uninterpretable”, Meehl (also discussed in Cohen’s paper “The Earth is Round (p < 0.05)”): Problem 6. Crud factor: In the social sciences and arguably in the biological sciences, “everything correlates to some extent with everything else.” This truism, which I have found no competent psychologist disputes given 5 minutes reflection, does not apply to pure experimental studies in which attributes that the subjects bring with them are

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TikTok’s latest feature lets college students find and connect with classmates

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-11-11 03:00:00

In a move reminiscent of Facebook’s early days, TikTok is launching a new feature that allows college students to find and connect with others on their campus. The feature, called Campus Verification, lets users add their college campus to their TikTok profile and browse through a list of students at their school. To access the feature, users need to navigate to their profile and tap the “Add school” button. From there, they need to enter their school name and then select their graduation year.

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Best Lunch Boxes and Backpacks for the 2025 School Year

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-14 03:00:00

Back-to-school is just around the corner, and with the start of the new school year right around the corner, you may be looking for the perfect backpack and lunch box for your kids. As kids start a new grade, these items can inspire excitement and even motivation. Picking out a backpack and lunch box used to be simple. These days, the options (and price points) seem to be limitless. The good news is that at least lunch boxes have gotten a major upgrade in recent years -- they can actually keep

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How Microschools Became the Latest Tech Mogul Obsession

wired.com Julia Black 2025-11-14 12:00:00

Elon Musk had a question: “Does anybody have any experience with first principles analysis?” He was speaking to a room full of kids, many of whom knew Musk as the CEO of companies that made rockets and cool-looking cars—and as the founder of Ad Astra, the microschool they attended in his Bel Air mansion, per a video posted by the YouTube channel Newsthink. To five of them, he was simply “Dad.” Generation iPad Young people entering classrooms this fall need a totally different tool set than the

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BBC Micro, ancestor to ARM

news.ycombinator.com Chris Garrett 2025-11-13 17:08:44

ARM-based chips are found in nearly 60 percent of the world’s mobile devices Introducing the “Beeb” – the inventors of the ARM architecture used these machines to simulate and develop chip designs. Those chips are now in every home and business. This particular machine is my BBC Master, plus 5 1/4″ floppy disk drive, and three-button mouse. Isn’t she a beauty? Like many microcomputers of the 1980s, the BBC Micro ran on a 6502 series microchip. Unlike most of the competition, however, the BBC

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BBC Micro, the ancestor to ARM

news.ycombinator.com Chris Garrett 2025-11-13 23:08:44

ARM-based chips are found in nearly 60 percent of the world’s mobile devices Introducing the “Beeb” – the inventors of the ARM architecture used these machines to simulate and develop chip designs. Those chips are now in every home and business. This particular machine is my BBC Master, plus 5 1/4″ floppy disk drive, and three-button mouse. Isn’t she a beauty? Like many microcomputers of the 1980s, the BBC Micro ran on a 6502 series microchip. Unlike most of the competition, however, the BBC

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BBC Micro: The Ancestor to a Device You Are Guaranteed to Own

news.ycombinator.com Chris Garrett 2025-11-14 05:08:44

ARM-based chips are found in nearly 60 percent of the world’s mobile devices Introducing the “Beeb” – the inventors of the ARM architecture used these machines to simulate and develop chip designs. Those chips are now in every home and business. This particular machine is my BBC Master, plus 5 1/4″ floppy disk drive, and three-button mouse. Isn’t she a beauty? Like many microcomputers of the 1980s, the BBC Micro ran on a 6502 series microchip. Unlike most of the competition, however, the BBC

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19 Best Back-to-School Deals for 2025

wired.com Louryn Strampe 2025-11-13 21:02:00

It's “back to school” season for some and “been back in school” season for others, but regardless of your specific situation, now is the time of year when retailers are discounting all the school essentials. We've hunted down discounts on the best back-to-school gear our reviewers have hand-tested, from laptops and mattress toppers to bags and chairs. Be sure to check out our related guides, including the Best Back-to-School Laptop Deals, the Best Dorm Gear, and the Best Kids Backpacks. Top Ba

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Neighbors Uncover Something Incredibly Sketchy at Mark Zuckerberg's Compound

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-13 21:52:04

"The Zuckerbergs have become cartoon villains." Privatest School Pissed off neighbors of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg uncovered that he and his wife, Priscilla Chan, were running a school that violated city code at their Palo Alto compound in California, The New York Times reports. It's a shocking revelation that couldn't have come at a worse time for the couple and Meta. Zuckerberg and Chan are under fire for closing two schools for low-income families and for Zuckerberg's Meta allowing its AI c

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Latest Tech News

How to Inspire K-12 Students to Study in Computing Disciplines in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Byte-A-Dynamo Workshops

From burner phones to decks of cards: NYC teens adjusting to the smartphone ban

Children hacking their own schools for 'fun', watchdog warns

US High school students' scores fall in reading and math

US HS students lose ground in math and reading, continuing yearslong decline

‘Free Speech’ University in Austin Makes Freshmen Read Palantir CEO’s Deep Thoughts

How Yichao “Peak” Ji became a global AI app hitmaker

Score Insane Student Deals on Laptops and Gaming Consoles at AliExpress

The best VPNs for school in 2025: Expert tested and reviewed

Texas sues PowerSchool over breach exposing 62M students, 880k Texans

Tech Utopians Are Using a Chinese-Built ‘Ghost City’ to Trial Their Network State Fantasies

The Government Is Preparing to Take Away Your SSRIs

Why Romania excels in international Olympiads

Watch Our Livestream Replay: Back to School in the Age of AI

The Unforgotten

South Korea bans smartphones in all middle and elementary school classrooms

Study: Sex Education in the U.S. Is a Complete Joke

Instagram’s new feature helps college students connect with others on campus

16 Best Back-to-School Deals for 2025

Florida Schools Deploying Armed Drones to Battle School Shooters

Everything is correlated (2014–23)

Everything Is Correlated

TikTok’s latest feature lets college students find and connect with classmates

Best Lunch Boxes and Backpacks for the 2025 School Year

How Microschools Became the Latest Tech Mogul Obsession

BBC Micro, ancestor to ARM

BBC Micro, the ancestor to ARM

BBC Micro: The Ancestor to a Device You Are Guaranteed to Own

19 Best Back-to-School Deals for 2025

Neighbors Uncover Something Incredibly Sketchy at Mark Zuckerberg's Compound

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