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Poland's government has approved legislation that would ban smartphones and smartwatches from school classrooms. It's a move that puts Warsaw alongside France and several other nations wrestling with the same question — whether devices that connect children to the world are also pulling them away from learning.
On a darker note, researchers have published findings showing that AI agents can now power adaptive computer worms — malware that reasons, adjusts, and evades detection in real time. This isn't theoretical. The paper, posted to arXiv, suggests that the same autonomous capabilities making AI assistants useful are also making cyberattacks significantly harder to anticipate or contain.
And in cryptocurrency markets, prediction traders are signaling trouble ahead for bitcoin. Current odds put a sixty-six percent chance that bitcoin falls below fifty-five thousand dollars before year-end, with essentially a coin-flip chance of it dropping beneath fifty thousand. That's a notable shift in sentiment for a market that was riding high just months ago.
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