For May, Patch Tuesday means 139 updates — but no zero-days

Microsoft delivered fixes for issues affecting everything from Windows to Office, .NET, and SQL Server, and several patches ...
The Guardian

I knew my writing students were using AI. Their confessions led to a powerful teaching moment

The problem wasn’t just the perfectly polished, yet mediocre prose. It’s what’s lost when we surrender the struggle to translate thought into words I have been teaching fiction writing at MIT since ...
JournalofAccountancy

Use Excel to automate financial statement analysis

Q. I often perform horizontal, vertical, and trend analysis for clients. Each time revised financial statements arrive, I find myself recreating formulas, rechecking ranges, and confirming that ...
Sun Sentinel

New Florida law aims to strengthen cursive writing in schools. Here’s what students must learn.

A new Florida law aims to strengthen the teaching of cursive writing in public schools. The new cursive requirements are part of a sweeping education bill that was recently signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis ...
The New York Times

How A.I. Killed Student Writing (and Revived It)

High school and college teachers are watching students write, in the classroom, in order to protect against the incursion of artificial intelligence. Credit...Video by Lauren Lancaster For The New ...
ZDNet

Microsoft just added AI agents to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint - how to use them

I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen Best laptop cooling pads Best flip ...
Inside Higher Ed

Curation, Taste and the Writing Classroom

Last fall I delivered a keynote address at a one-day conference about teaching writing in the age of AI at Iona University. As part of the conference, there were also additional talks by Iona faculty ...
Mashable

Here’s a smarter way to use Word, Excel, and other Office favorites — now for $150 off

The following content is brought to you by Mashable partners. If you buy a product featured here, we may earn an affiliate commission or other compensation. Microsoft Office apps get an AI upgrade ...
EdSurge

I Tell My Students Writing Is Hard. I Still Ask Them to Do It Anyway.

My life has changed so much since my time as a Voices of Change fellow during the 2023 school year. As I wrote in my final essay of the fellowship, the beautiful, imperfect school I loved and helped ...
Wired

Meet the Tech Reporters Using AI to Help Write and Edit Their Stories

When technology reporter Alex Heath has a scoop, he sits down at his computer and speaks into a microphone. He’s not talking to a human colleague—Heath went independent on Substack last year—he’s ...
New York Magazine

The People Falsely Accused of Using AI

When Jared Hewitt’s co-worker claimed last winter that Hewitt used AI to write an incident report, she did it publicly. “And I work at a day care, so she was berating me in front of children,” he says ...