CNN

With ICE using Medicaid data, hospitals and states are in a bind over warning immigrant patients

The Trump administration’s move to give deportation officials access to Medicaid data is putting hospitals and states in a bind as they weigh whether to alert immigrant patients that their personal ...
The New York Times

Students Are Skipping the Hardest Part of Growing Up

Mr. Shirky, a vice provost at New York University, has been helping faculty members and students adapt to digital tools since 2015. Back in 2023, when ChatGPT was still new, a professor friend had a ...
Harvard Business Review

How Gen Z Uses Gen AI—and Why It Worries Them

As go the young, so goes society. Young adults were early adopters of cell phones, social media, and the internet. Now all of these technologies are universal. So how are members of Gen Z using ...
PBS

Bans on using SNAP funds for soda, candy and other foods take effect in some states Jan. 1

Starting Thursday, Americans in five states who get government help paying for groceries will see new restrictions on soda, candy and other foods they can buy with those benefits. Indiana, Iowa, ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Aspire 13 Makes Python a First-Class Workload with .NET and JavaScript

Microsoft has added official Python support to Aspire 13, expanding the platform beyond .NET and JavaScript for building and running distributed apps. Documented today in a Microsoft DevBlogs post, ...
Radio World

FCC Reveals New Deadlines With Databases Returning

The Federal Communications Commission is ready to reactivate the online databases radio and TV stations need to make the critical filings that were missed during the 43-day government shutdown. The ...
Today

People Can Text with Jesus on A Controversial New App. How Does It Work?

A new wave of apps is attempting to create a hotline to heaven for users who are interested in strengthening their religious faith. The app Text With Jesus uses artificial intelligence and chatbots to ...
NPR

1 in 5 high schoolers has had a romantic AI relationship or knows someone who has

New survey data finds that nearly 1 in 5 high schoolers say they or someone they know has had a romantic relationship with artificial intelligence. And 42% of students surveyed say they or someone ...
Education Week

Rising Use of AI in Schools Comes With Big Downsides for Students

Teachers’ and students’ use of artificial intelligence in K-12 classrooms is increasing at a rapid pace, prompting serious concerns about the potentially negative effects on students, a new report ...
InfoWorld

Using Microsoft’s Data API builder for Azure databases

Microsoft’s declarative REST and GraphQL API design tool supports MySQL and Postgres as well as Azure databases and works anywhere you can run a Docker container. Microsoft Azure is now so big it’s ...
Wired

What Is a Passkey?

Passkeys offer a way of confirming you are who you say you are without remembering a long, complicated password, and in a manner that's resistant to common attacks on passwords like phishing and ...