How Would You Handle Students Cheating?
I gave my students a take home exam over spring break. (This is normal where I teach) One of the questions was particulary difficult. It came down to a factor of three in the solution. That factor inexplicably appeared with no justification on many of their exams. I intend to have the students I suspect of cheating come to my...
‘I am so scared of them now’: Burned from overspending, some ‘buy now, pay later’ users warn others away (www.nbcnews.com)
After racking up thousands of dollars in debt, some borrowers are deleting the apps from their phones to avoid getting prodded to spend more....
Windows AI PC manufacturers must add a Copilot key, says Microsoft (www.xda-developers.com)
Putin dismissed US warnings about a potential terror incident as 'blackmail' just 3 days before concert hall attack (www.businessinsider.com)
Gunmen stormed a concert hall in Moscow on Friday, killing at least 60 people and injuring more than 100....
I apologise if this is already common knowledge, but I just found out you can have multiple layers of LUKS encryption on a drive! (lemmy.ml)
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Putin claims landslide in Russian election and scorns US democracy (www.bbc.com)
What's your favourite colour? [Non-political version] (lemmus.org)
Boeing: How much trouble is the company in? (www.bbc.co.uk)
“It’s as if I’m watching a troubled child” is how Captain Dennis Tajer describes flying a Boeing 737 Max....
oc based on a true story (lemmy.world)
‘Deluded’ Hamas made a ‘catastrophic miscalculation’, say Palestinian analysts (www.thejc.com)
Putin warns the West: Russia is ready for nuclear war (www.reuters.com)
President Vladimir Putin warned the West on Wednesday that Russia was technically ready for nuclear war and that if the U.S. sent troops to Ukraine it would be considered a significant escalation of the war....
A 62-Year-Old German Man Got 217 Covid Shots—and Was Totally Fine (www.wired.com)
I aspire to be this guy.
Nikki Haley to end presidential campaign, ceding GOP nomination to Trump (www.nbcnews.com)
A lot of people thought she was going to go all the way to the RNC, but I didn’t think she would last that long....
Linux for desktop market share surpasses 4% for the first time, says Statcounter (www.neowin.net)
Statcounter, a website that tracks the market share of web browsers, operating systems, and search engines, is reporting that Linux on the desktop has over 4% market share for the very first time (Statcounter records ChromeOS as a separate operating system despite being based on Linux). Statcounter doesn’t provide any...
The New York Times should not be considered a reliable source of journalism.
The New York Times is one of the newspapers of record for the United States. However, it’s history of running stories with poor sourcing, insufficient evidence, and finding journalists with conflicts of interest undermines it’s credibility when reporting on international issues and matters of foreign policy....
Eeewww! (lemmy.world)
Israeli Forces Fire at Gazans Waiting for Food Aid, Killing at Least 100, Injuring Over 760 Others (www.democracynow.org)
The growing controversy over Israel’s Eurovision song entry (www.semafor.com)
They couldn’t resist breaking the rules lmao, but face no consequences, besides being mad about it...
San Jose bakery loses thousands of dollars after Tesla reportedly cancels large order (www.nbcbayarea.com)
Two days after taking a job for Tesla, owner of The Giving Pies got a simple text message canceling the order...
Tech Job Interviews Are Out of Control (www.wired.com)
That graphic sums up my entire educational experience. archive.is/hvZ5q
Just how the f*CK did Nintendo developed tears of the kingdom?
There are so many things being tracked all the time in the game for puzzles and the power arm. Yet despites literally tracking sunshadows for some puzzle completion for example it runs almost smoothly with (in my 170h) no crashes. On a 6 yo portable console??...
Firewall (lemmy.world)
Bluesky is finally open to everyone. But will anyone come? We ask its CEO. (www.businessinsider.nl)
Graber is “optimistic about human potential, even though I’m realistic about human nature.” When Bluesky launched last year, it filled a gap that was desperately needed by people who were looking for alternatives to X, as it seemed like the ship formerly known as Twitter was possibly sinking. (Against all odds, it hasn’t...