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Schools across America are rethinking their relationship with screens, as parents, teachers, and administrators push back against devices that were once seen as the future of learning. The debate is no longer about access — it's about whether constant connectivity is quietly undermining attention, social development, and the basic act of being present in a classroom.
Shifting to the intersection of faith and technology, Pope Leo the Fourteenth has issued an encyclical on artificial intelligence, and the tech community is paying attention. Simon Willison's notes on the document highlight a thoughtful moral framework around AI's impact on human dignity and labor — a reminder that the biggest questions about these systems aren't always coming from Silicon Valley.
And in a quieter corner of the developer world, there's a new desktop sandbox tool designed to let engineers safely run AI agents and MCP servers in an isolated environment. It's early-stage and lightly noticed so far, but the underlying problem it addresses — how do you test autonomous agents without letting them run loose — is one the industry hasn't cleanly solved yet.
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