US National Security Advisor to the 2023 White House Cyber Security Conference, Anne Neuberger, has said that the White House doesn’t have the authority to require minimum school cybersecurity protocols. “Even now many school districts don’t have basic prevention protocols in place,” she added. An analysis by cyber security firm Emsisoft estimates that 45 school districts were attacked in 2022.
New York City public schools preemptively closed on Tuesday and planned to hold classes remotely. Boston Mayor Michelle Wu declared a snow emergency and ordered municipal buildings and public schools closed on Tuesday and instituting a parking ban on major roads. A nor’easter is expected to hit Mid-Atlantic and New England with high winds, coastal flooding, and up to a foot of snow.
Harvard University President Claudine Gay has resigned over plagiarism allegations. Gay, who became the first African-American and second woman to lead the Ivy League school in 2012, had faced accusations of plagiarizing parts of her published works and appearing before Congress last month. Gay had become the first person of colour and the second woman to lead Harvard when she joined the faculty.
The US Department of Education has notified Kurt Panton that under President Joe Biden’s ‘Big Loan repayment plan’, he now qualifies to have his remaining $18,000 in loans forgiven, 20 years since his first payment. Panton, who’s been repaying his student loans consistently for 19 years, said he didn’t think the government would issue such an email. “That’s disappointing,” he added.
Harvard University President Claudine Gay has said that calls for violence or genocide against the Jewish community, or any religious or ethnic group are vile. “They have no place at Harvard,” she added. The comment came after Gay was criticised by 74 members of Congress over her remarks at a House of Representatives committee hearing on anti-Semitism on college campuses.
The US Department of Education has listed ‘Students for Justice in Palestine’, a loosely connected network of organisations and schools under investigation over alleged incidents of antisemitism and Islamophobia. The department released a list of K-12 and Higher Education institutions under investigation over alleged incidents of antisemitism and Islamophobia. The civil rights office is investigating possible violations of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
US’ Arizona State University (ASU) is using ‘RAG’, an AI platform, to train its speech-recognition system to provide users with the source of its answers. ‘RAG’ is being used by GSV Ventures, an investment firm in educational technology companies in New York City. Merlyn Mind’s open-source Corpus-qa LLM is initially trained on a big body of text not related to education specifically.
The New York University President said that their student affairs division reached out to all students from the impacted areas with offers of support and help. “We don’t know all the students…so we’re working on it,” he added. This comes amid protests at campuses across the US against the Israel-Hamas conflict. Hundreds of students have been protesting at colleges and universities in the US.
The US IRS has announced new tax credit rules which allow dealers to reduce the price of a electric vehicle (EV) by as much as $7,500 at the point of purchase. Buyers will have to confirm they fall within the income limit outlined in the tax credit rules before taking the rebate. Dealers will receive repayment for the rebate within 72 hours.
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