AI-generated lesson plans fall short on inspiring students and promoting critical thinking

Overall, we found the AI-generated lesson plans to be decidedly boring, traditional and uninspiring. If civics teachers used these AI-generated lesson plans as is, students would miss out on active, ...

Crossing guards face life-threatening dangers on the job

An investigation by The Associated Press and Cox Media Group Television Stations found that school crossing guards face dangerous conditions, with many injured or killed on the job. What’s ...
Opinion

‘I feel like a spy.’ In Mike Miles’ HISD, teachers and students say reading books is a secret plot

First HISD took the libraries. Now teachers say the district’s curriculum leaves no room for storybooks and some are secretly reading to students anyway.

A 'seating chart' for atoms helps locate their positions in materials

The DIGIT imaging tool could enable the design of quantum devices and shed light on atomic-scale processes in cells and tissues.
The Hacker News

Experts Reports Sharp Increase in Automated Botnet Attacks Targeting PHP Servers and IoT Devices

Botnets exploit PHP flaws and cloud misconfigurations, launching 20 Tbps DDoS and large-scale credential attacks.
IndieWire

2025 Student Academy Awards Winners Are Announced in New York City

The Academy brought its Student Academy Awards back across the pond this year to honor several student filmmakers whose work is now eligible to compete for the 98th Oscars. The Academy of Motion ...
Tech Xplore

Tracking the neural activity of undergrads reveals how the human brain learns to code

Computer programming powers modern society and enabled the AI revolution, but little is known about how our brains learn this ...
Futurism

College Student Died Locked Inside a Cybertruck on Fire, Family Now Suing Tesla

The family of a California college student who perished last year inside a Cybertruck that crashed and burst into flames is now suing Tesla for flawed doors they claim kept their daughter locked ...

Why you should think twice before using shorthand like ‘thx’ and ‘k’ in your texts

But our findings suggest that the mere inclusion of abbreviations, although seemingly benign, start feeling like a brush-off. In other words, whenever a texter chops words down to their bare ...
KHOU 11

Homeless man kidnapped Houston high school student after injecting him with unknown substance, court docs say

HOUSTON — A homeless man with a long criminal history is in custody after a scary incident near a north Houston School. According to court documents, Ted Fleming abducted a student after injecting him ...
Association for Psychological Science

Science Startup Uses Simple Approach to Reduce Student Absenteeism

As of September 2025, EveryDay Labs has grown to employ 30 full-time employees and 10 part-time employees. They deliver ...
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'Significant' threat to US networks after hackers stole F5 source code, CISA warns

CISA warns FCEB agencies to patch F5 products after a nation-state breach Attackers stole BIG-IP source code and vulnerability data, risking zero-day discovery and exploitation F5 released updates; no ...