As Bridget Phillipson seeks to increase testing in schools (again) with a new reading test for 13 year olds, as a way of combatting the problems in literacy among school children, which is clearly a serious issue, I'm reminded of the phrase:
'You don't fatten a pig by weighing it'
What is needed is more investment in schools & staff to enhance the environment in which children learn & to help them discover the joy of learning... more testing just sucks the joy out or education!
@pluralistic Is it possible to enshittify what was already shit to begin with?
https://www.wired.com/story/can-ai-escape-enshittification-trap/
Wonder who this mystery OEM is. I'm cautiously optimistic about migrating away from Pixel and Google as a whole, but not if it means moving to another tech giant.
https://www.androidauthority.com/graphene-os-major-android-oem-partnership-3606853/
Wow, a lot happened in the cybersecurity world over the weekend, so check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you might have missed, including
--The White House fired 176 CISA employees on Friday, with more layoffs feared,
--Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters leaked 5m Qantas, 23m Vietnam Air customers' records,
--Spanish cops dismantle GXC Team,
--Dutch gov't warns of China's Nexperia security risks,
--Breach of crypto betting platform Shuffle exposes user data,
--FCC chair says sites have removed barred Chinese electronics,
--N. Korean scammers now posing as architects,
--Korean government launches KT Telecom probe related to breach,
--OTA updates leave Jeeps bricked,
--CEO of UniCredit bank was targeted with Graphite spyware,
--NIH uses sensitive medical equipment from Chinese company with espionage track record,
--Trump withdraws nomination of Gen. William Hartman,
--Criminals are scamming driver's license seekers,
--World's biggest botnet is drawing power from telco-hosted IoT devices,
--Apple ups bug payouts for spyware to $2m,
--Hackers stole data from UK top screen industry union Bectu,
--Hackers stole massive amounts of data from Banco Hipotecario del Uruguay,
--A cyber incident hit Sugar Land, TX,
--Michigan City, IN hit by a ransomware attack,
--Resistant AI raised $25m in Series B,
--1Password sells $75m stake to Utah Jazz owners,
--Google's OSV database fixes undercount,
--AI might kill us with pathogens
https://www.metacurity.com/the-white-house-fired-176-cisa-employees-on-friday-with-more-layoffs-feared/
Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters leaked 5m Qantas, 23m Vietnam Air customers' records, Spanish cops dismantle GXC Team, Dutch gov't warns of China's Nexperia security risks, Breach of crypto betting platform Shuffle exposes user data, FCC chair says sites have removed barred Chinese electronics, much more
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