New Shai-Hulud attack trojanizes 19 science-focused PyPI packages

Hackers compromised 19 packages on the PyPI, collectively downloaded hundreds of thousands of times, in a new Shai-Hulud ...
National Review

Data Centers Aren’t the Enemy

Canada’s Assisted-Suicide Boom Reveals the Human Costs of Single-Payer Democrats Say They Want Affordable Housing. So Why Are They Killing It? The Democrats’ Patriotism Gap The Supreme Court Should ...
Reuters

International testing agency explores power data passport to sharpen anti-doping efforts

PARIS, May 18 (Reuters) - Cycling's anti-doping authorities are working towards a possible 2028 launch of a "power data passport" that would use riders' performance files to help target testing and ...
No Jitter

The human advantage in collaboration: reading situations, not just data sets

Sometimes (ok, more often than that) I feel like I’m either a broken record or an ostrich with rigor mortis—stuck with my head in the sand about limitations of AI—not its capabilities, but its ...
CBS News

U.S. students' "reading recession" continuing but some places bucking the trend, report shows

Modesto, Calif. — Before every important test, teacher Nancy Barajas dims the lights, turns on a disco ball and blasts music from her playlist. Her sixth graders dance together as a "pre-celebration" ...
Los Angeles Times

The nation’s students are deep in a reading recession. Here’s how L.A. and California fit in

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The nation’s students face a deepening reading crisis, with most states showing minimal progress in recent years, ...
NPR

Kids' test scores began declining way before COVID. These schools are making gains

The pandemic-era backslide in math and reading scores for students across the U.S. was not a sudden catastrophe but the continuation of a brutal, decade-long "learning recession" that began years ...
The New York Times

Why U.S. Test Scores Are in a ‘Generation-Long Decline’

The drops go beyond the pandemic and cut across income, geographic and racial divides, new data shows. By Claire Cain Miller Francesca Paris and Sarah Mervosh Something troubling is happening in U.S.
The New York Times

Look Up Your School District’s Test Scores

American math and reading test scores have fallen in the last decade, according to data released Wednesday by the Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford. Read more about why that’s happening.
Business Insider

Kevin O'Leary defends his Utah data center project: 'Think about the number of jobs'

Many Americans don't like the AI data centers popping up in their communities, though Kevin O'Leary thinks that's because they don't fully understand them. O'Leary, the venture capitalist and "Shark ...
CNBC

Nvidia and PulteGroup are helping this startup put mini data centers on homes

Span, a California-based startup, has developed small, fractional data centers, or "nodes," called XFRA units. The idea is to take advantage of unused electrical capacity on local grids, which the ...
Stars and Stripes

Army rolls out Combat Field Test, new fitness assessment for front-line combat soldiers

Soldiers serving in front-line fighting jobs will soon have to pass two annual Army fitness tests after the service rolled out its new combat-focused physical assessment on Wednesday. The new Combat ...