AI·
A Dartmouth AI textbook is tied to final-exam gains of up to 1.30 standard deviations
Phosphor, an interactive textbook that grades practice with Claude, was tied to a 0.71 to 1.30 SD final-exam gain in a Dartmouth statistics course.
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A Brown professor caught 40 of 86 students cheating with AI. Now he wants take-home exams gone.
A Brown economist found AI fraud across a midterm. The scandal exposes how routine AI cheating has become, and why detectors can't reliably catch it.
Security·
ShinyHunters hit Canvas LMS for the second time. 275 million student records, 9,000 schools.
ShinyHunters breached Canvas LMS again, claiming 275 million records from 9,000 schools. Names, emails, student IDs, and private messages exposed.
Hardware·
Texas Instruments shipped the TI-84 Evo. $160, USB-C, 3x faster, still exam-approved.
TI's first big redesign of the TI-84 in over a decade ships April 28 with a 156 MHz Cortex chip, a 50% larger graphing area, and Python on board. Exam boards still approve it.