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An upcoming RHSU Edu‑Scholar Public Influence Rankings release and an accompanying explanation argue that higher education undervalues practical policy influence relative to grants and traditional...

Security experts are urging large organizations to adopt passkeys as a stronger, user-friendly alternative to reused passwords. Passkeys tie authentication to a user’s device and remove...

The rapid surge in corporate AI investment has raised concerns about overbuilding infrastructure, a dynamic with direct implications for universities that invest in compute, partnerships and AI...

Community opposition to large, water‑ and power‑hungry data centers has intensified, blocking or delaying dozens of proposals and forcing developers to navigate new zoning and permitting...

Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan said the firm hired 2,000 recent graduates from roughly 200,000 applications and warned that many Gen Z applicants are anxious about AI and the job market....

The AI-driven rally pushed major indexes higher while prompting strategists and portfolio managers to flag overinvestment risks. Nvidia, Microsoft, Alphabet and Broadcom accounted for a large...

Policy thinkers and industry figures pushed back against framing AI as a zero-sum race after recent U.S. actions on chip exports to China. The Trump administration’s move to permit exports of...

Sweden’s long-running digital-access policies and startup ecosystem have produced an outsized share of AI 'unicorns' per capita, according to founders and analysts. The article traces the...

Local opposition and tighter municipal review processes have blocked or delayed a wave of proposed data centers, threatening supply chains for AI compute and cloud capacity. Data Center Watch and...

Cybersecurity experts and major tech firms are promoting passkeys as a more secure, user‑friendly alternative to traditional passwords, urging institutions to accelerate adoption. The article...

JLL’s Workforce Preference Barometer finds that the locus of employer–employee conflict has shifted from 'where' to 'when'—workers increasingly demand control over schedules rather than just...

JLL’s profile of the "empowered non‑complier" identifies a cohort of high-skill employees who selectively ignore mandated in‑office days. These workers—often managers in tech roles aged about...

Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan said the bank hired 2,000 recent graduates from 200,000 applicants and that many new entrants to the workforce are anxious about AI and the job market. Moynihan...

Education leaders outlined 11 recurring problems school and district leaders are prioritizing in 2026, including equity, student engagement, chronic absenteeism, multilingual learners and staff...

Students at St. John’s College organized a week‑long 'tech fast' that replaced phone-based communication with chalkboard notices and analog practices, offering a live test of low‑tech pedagogy on...

A university concluded that a faculty member’s online post, which the professor defended as satire, met the institution’s threshold for "disruption," prompting criticism from free‑speech advocates...

Virginia’s outgoing Republican officials asked a federal judge to block the state’s Dream Act, eliminating in‑state tuition eligibility for undocumented students and aligning state policy with the...

Higher education IT and research leaders are being reminded that AI projects fail not because of models but because underlying institutional data is fragmented, inconsistent and poorly governed....

Security commentators are urging organizations to replace password-based authentication with passkeys—device‑bound credentials backed by major vendors—to reduce phishing and credential reuse...

Leading commentators argue the international AI debate is miscast as a zero‑sum race and warn that export‑control and rivalry narratives could harm academic collaboration and research ecosystems....