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 ...
Dark Reading

Attackers Use AI to Automate EDR Evasion Testing

Sophos X-Ops analysts published research this week concerning an unidentified threat actor using AI technology to develop endpoint detection and response (EDR) evasion tactics through the lens of what ...
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 ...
NBC News

Blood test added to colorectal cancer screening options by cancer group

For the first time, a blood test has been added to the list of the American Cancer Society’s recommended screenings for colorectal cancer. It’s not meant to replace colonoscopies, aiming instead at ...
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 ...
Time

‘Learning Recession’: Why Student Test Scores Have Seen a Decade-Long Decline Across the U.S.

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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.
Semiconductor Engineering

Smart Test Collides With The Data Chain

The promise of smart test is a data-chain problem before it is an algorithm problem. A device can pass every checkpoint and still carry a latent defect the test record never captured. As test grows ...