In an Aug. 20 Dear Colleague Letter from Kirsten Baesler, assistant secretary of the United States Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, ED outlines new guidance to frame the national conversation around the educational value of technology in schools.
CrowdStrike's latest Threat Hunting Report traces a multiyear shift from conventional intrusions toward attacks that exploit trusted identities, cloud services, AI systems, and software dependencies.
Purpose-built AI systems can analyze patterns in student performance, identify specific skill gaps, and connect those gaps directly to instructional recommendations. Done well, this doesn't remove the teacher from the equation. It sharpens the teacher's ability to act.
Microsoft is speeding up its quantum-safe security timeline, noting that advances in quantum computing and new federal requirements have pushed post-quantum cryptography from a future planning issue into an immediate engineering priority.