Live updates: DHS officials address Congress as travel delays worsen |
As travel disruptions deepen and senators race to clinch a proposal to end the Homeland Security shutdown, House lawmakers are holding a hearing to discuss the impacts of the funding lapse. Acting TSA administrator Ha Nguyen McNeill said multiple airports are experiencing greater than 40% callout rates. "At this point, we have to look at all options on the table. We don’t have the luxury of picking and choosing how we maintain our operations," McNeill said. "And that does require us to, at some point, make very difficult choices as to which airports we might try to keep open and which ones we might have to shut down as our callout rates increase." Read more.
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Perfect homework, blank stares: Why colleges are turning to oral exams to combat AI |
College instructors across the U.S. are noticing troubling new trends as generative artificial intelligence becomes more sophisticated. Take-home essays and other written assignments are coming back perfect. But when students are asked to explain their work, they can’t. The long-term impact of AI use on critical thinking remains to be seen, but educators worry students increasingly see the hard work of thinking as optional. Read more.
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