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Denmark is taking a direct approach to AI-assisted cheating in schools, now requiring students to defend their written work through oral examinations. The logic is straightforward: a language model can write an essay, but it cannot sit across from a professor and answer questions about it. It is a human solution to a very human problem.
On the security front, hackers have breached TrueConf, the video conferencing platform, and quietly embedded backdoors into the software's official client installers. That means users who downloaded what appeared to be a legitimate update may have handed attackers a door into their systems. It is a reminder that even trusted software channels can become weapons.
And looking further afield, quite literally, NASA's first self-driving vehicle on Mars has exceeded expectations in two thousand twenty six, navigating the Martian surface with a level of autonomy that scientists say dramatically expands how much ground future missions can cover. Less waiting on instructions from Earth means more science, and that is a trade-off worth celebrating.
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