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Hello World

Rethinking Security from the Ground Up

Professor Rikke Bjerg Jensen explores how social context shapes security

March 29, 2025 08:00 ET

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Artificial Intelligence

AI Can Rip You Off. Here's How California Lawmakers Want to Stop Price Discrimination

AI can help businesses charge you more based on how it evaluates your personal history and desires. California lawmakers want to end that price discrimination

March 13, 2025 08:30 ET

Illustration of an outline of CA showing a golden microchip pattern, set against a background of pixelated blocks that show the text to Assembly Bill 1018

Artificial Intelligence

California Is Considering 30 New AI Regulations. Trump Wants None

President Trump is taking a very different approach to AI than the Biden administration, and it could affect how California regulates artificial intelligence

March 13, 2025 08:30 ET

A poster hung up on the wall of a high school classroom with information on how students can use ChatGPT, an AI platform, for schoolwork. The poster is titled: "Can I use ChatGPT?" next to a thinking emoji. English teacher Jen Roberts can be seen in the foreground of the frame.

Hello World

A High School Student Explains How Educators Can Adapt to AI

We need more live student assessment, more emphasis on critical thinking—and less homework, William Liang writes

March 8, 2025 08:00 ET

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Machine Learning

AI Chatbots Can Cushion the High School Counselor Shortage — But Are They Bad for Students?

The more students turn to chatbots, the fewer chances they have to develop real-life relationships that can lead to jobs and later success

March 4, 2025 08:33 ET

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News

Crackdown on Power-Guzzling Data Centers May Soon Come Online in California

A spate of new bills in California and other states would protect consumers from electricity rate hikes that subsidize data centers

February 21, 2025 16:15 ET

Dating App Cover-Up: How Tinder, Hinge, and Their Corporate Owner Keep Rape Under Wraps

The company behind more than a dozen dating apps, Match Group, has known for years about the abusive users on its platforms, but chooses to leave millions of people in the dark

February 13, 2025 05:00 ET

Artificial Intelligence

California Is Investigating OpenAI’s Conversion To a For-Profit Company

The state’s attorney general asked the company how it plans to transfer assets out of its charitable nonprofit

January 23, 2025 08:30 ET

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Artificial Intelligence

Fearing AI Will Take Their Jobs, Workers Plan a Long Battle Against Tech

At a landmark gathering in California, workers discussed defenses against artificial intelligence and surveillance technology

January 16, 2025 09:15 ET

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Digital Book Banning

Online Censorship In Schools Is ‘More Pervasive' Than Expected, New Data Shows

Nationally representative survey data from The Center for Democracy & Technology finds schools subjectively and broadly block students from information online

January 16, 2025 08:30 ET