The Chronicle of Higher Education

My Students Can’t Read

S ix weeks into the term, I assigned my rhetoric and writing students a 20-page article. It was the same length I had assigned for five years and the same length I had read without complaint as an ...
Bleeping Computer

Microsoft says some users can't install Office on Windows 365 devices

Microsoft says some customers are experiencing issues downloading and installing Office on their Windows 365 devices. Windows 365 is a cloud-based service that runs on Azure Virtual Desktop and allows ...
The Conversation

Iran can’t ‘win’ this war. But it can force a US retreat using these 4 insurgency tactics

A Thai‑flagged cargo ship burns after being hit by Iranian missiles in the Strait of Hormuz on March 11. Royal Thai Navy/AP Iran knows it is militarily much weaker than the United States. The US ...
Wired

You Can Now Install—and Update—Microsoft Store Apps Using the Command Line

I can't stand opening the Microsoft Store. It's slow to load, confusing to browse, and full of ads for things I don't care about. Luckily, thanks to a new feature, I don't have to open the Microsoft ...
PBS

WATCH: 'You can't have guns. You can't walk in with guns,' Trump says of Alex Pretti killing

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he did not think Alex Pretti, the second U.S. citizen to be killed by federal forces in Minnesota this month, was acting as an assassin. "You can't have guns.
Wall Street Journal

AI Can’t Touch These Skilled Trade Jobs. If Only Enough Humans Would Fill Them.

LATHAM, N.Y.—Master engravers have etched the custom designs and lettering on Crane Stationery since the days of Paul Revere—who, according to company lore, was one of its first customers. Today, with ...
SlashGear

4 Simple Questions ChatGPT Still Can't Answer

ChatGPT will always provide an answer to whatever question you ask it. You can put in the most garbled helping of word salad, and OpenAI's chatbot will come up with a well-meaning response. It just ...
Wall Street Journal

Ph.D.s Can’t Find Work as Boston’s Biotech Engine Sputters

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Jeremy Liew, 31 years old, moved to Boston from New Jersey in 2018 to study for a Ph.D. in chemistry and, he hoped, a career in the city’s bustling biotech industry. But after earning ...
PC World

Can’t enter a password on Windows 11? Here’s the culprit and a workaround

If you’re currently having trouble logging in to Windows 11 with your password, it’s not your fault. Microsoft has confirmed that the KB5064081 update from August 2025 may cause Windows 11 to hide the ...
The Atlantic

‘A Recipe for Idiocracy’

For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards ...
The New Yorker

Some People Can’t See Mental Images. The Consequences Are Profound

When Nick Watkins was a child, he pasted articles about space exploration into scrapbooks and drew annotated diagrams of rockets. He knew this because, years later, he still had the scrapbooks, and ...