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Millions of students every day turn to AI chatbots for help with schoolwork, emotional support and personal advice — often unaware of where their conversations and other personal information end up. How that data is used — and schools’ role in protecting it — is a growing concern for educators, parents and kids as artificial intelligence becomes a ubiquitous part of the school day, embedded in many of the classroom tools students are required to use. As the school year started, the country’s two largest school districts, New York City and Los Angeles, announced they were putting the brakes on…

When the body goes to war on itself, it wreaks havoc.The immune system is one of our most powerful defenses, protecting us from infections, cancer, and other threats. But it’s a double-edged sword. Sometimes all that firepower is turned against healthy tissue. The resulting autoimmune diseases can be devastating. Take multiple sclerosis, an insidious disease that gradually eats away at the insulating coating around delicate nerve fibers, scrambling the electrical signals that control our bodies. The disease often strikes in young or middle adulthood, and there’s no cure.Now a new clinical trial turns the immune system’s arsenal against the cells…

It seems unlikely that Apple stores will have iPhone Duo units for you to handle before pre-orders start in mid-October – but you don’t have to wait that long to spin around a virtual Duo, thanks to our partners at Binkies3D. The cool thing about this 3D model is that you can open and close the phone – just hit the button under the zoom button. This way you can see what the phone looks like in both states. You can also tap on the color names to view both paint jobs. Apple iPhone Duo 3D model We also have…

For years, my Raspberry Pi was the default answer whenever I needed a tiny, low-power computer. It ran web services, network utilities, and automation scripts without turning my desk into a space heater. Then I looked at an old Android phone gathering dust and realized it already had everything I kept adding to the Pi. The phone had a capable processor, enough RAM, flash storage, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, a touchscreen, cameras, and its own battery backup. It was a complete computer sitting unused because its screen was cracked. For the modest services I was running on my Pi, though, that screen…

Whole-home Wi-Fi 7 can be an expensive upgrade, but with Amazon launching its Early Prime Day deals, I spotted the TP-Link Deco 7 Pro BE10000 three-pack whole home mesh system.• Best for: Anyone who wants fast whole-home Wi-Fi 7 coverage for a larger property, with plenty of capacity for connected devices and wired networking.• The deal: The TP-Link Deco 7 Pro Mesh System is $397 (was $470) at Amazon.• Why it matters: You get three Deco BE63 units covering up to 7,600 sq. ft. and supporting more than 200 devices. Each unit has four 2.5Gbps WAN/LAN ports, with tri-band Wi-Fi…

Texas utility CenterPoint Energy confirmed on Monday that a threat actor has obtained customers’ personal information. The disclosure comes just days after a hacker claimed to have stolen millions of records. CenterPoint Energy is a Houston-based public utility that delivers electricity and natural gas to roughly 7 million customers across Indiana, Minnesota, Ohio, and Texas. The company told the SEC that it has launched an investigation after becoming aware of someone claiming to have obtained customer information. “While the investigation remains ongoing, the Company has determined that an unauthorized third party obtained personal information relating to a portion of the…

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Don’t ask an AI chatbot how many letter e’s there are in the word “seventeen.” Or do, actually, if you want to see how dodgy the tech remains. In a clip that’s gone viral in AI circles, the content creator who goes by “Husk” asks ChatGPT’s Voice mode to answer this simple counting question. Not only does the confident-sounding AI get it wrong — insisting there’re only three e’s instead of four — it doubles down so vehemently that it effectively tries to…

Why you can trust TechRadar We spend hours testing every product or service we review, so you can be sure you’re buying the best. Find out more about how we test. With Reacher season 4 still streaming on Prime Video as of writing, fans are divided on whether its pivot to a political espionage plot has worked. But there is one detail that unites them: the show was better with Neagley (Maria Sten) in it.After three seasons of dedicated service to Reacher (Alan Ritchson), Neagley is now a spinoff all her own. Taking on the lead role, she’s working as…

Samsung quietly launched the Galaxy A18 in Europe – we found press releases for France, Norway and Sweden. This is a 4G phone and there is no A18 5G variant just yet. This phone is a fairly minor upgrade over the Galaxy A17 4G. The biggest change is that Samsung dropped the Helio G99 chipset in favor of the Exynos 1610. You haven’t heard of the Exynos 1610? Well, we hadn’t either and Samsung is not forthcoming with the details. Samsung Galaxy A18 4G Anyway, the new model boasts an IP64 rating, meaning that…

Hackers compromised the official HBO Max account on Reddit and used it in a malvertising campaign leading to a ClickFix landing page. During a 48-hour window, the attackers pushed 108 malicious advertisements across five lure groups as part of the campaign, tracked as PasteSwitch. Using the verified u/hbomax account, the threat actors targeted both macOS and Windows users and aggressively promoted a native macOS application for HBO Max, which does not exist. Clicking the malicious ads led users to hbomaxx[.]us, a page mimicking the official HBO Max site that also contained a download button. “The download button opened a ClickFix…