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There's a problem with Turnitin: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c920v288gjd7o

https://getartcraft.com/apps Looks remarkably like Adobe. Desktop and online.

This is a new feature. Controls are distinct from Classic Siri and Apple Intelligence: https://www.macworld.com/article/2986799/ios-27-features-compatiblity-siri-ai-updates.html

Probably not what you want to hear: https://www.theedadvocate.org/the-ai-detection-debacle-why-uk-universities-are-ditching-flawed-tools/ My niece had problems with some school work she handed in and was falsely accused of having produced it using AI.

Have you properly risked assessed IpadOS 27 regarding use of pupil data as LLM training data or ensured that everyone opts/is oped out? https://forums.appleinsider.com/discussion/245656/if-you-let-it-apple-intelligence-will-train-itself-on-your-data-in-ios-27

Those of us old enough to have been working in tech in the last century can probably recall when it paid, plus bonuses and perks very very well. (I'm older that 6foot2).

Are proxy-based appliances an old-school approach? "It depends" on your precise requirements. Do filtering agents have significant overhead on user devices? Not in the grand scheme of things. Overall device performance and network/internet speed are far more significant. Can filtering agents be bypassed easily if a user has local administrator rights on the device? " It depends", but generally yes. Why would anyone have or need Local Admin Rights? If using a DNS-only solution for Bring Your Own Device, is there any good mitigation to prevent filtering bypass? Restricting port 53 helps, but DNS over HTTPS (DoH) adoption is climbing. A DNS only solution can never be KCSIE or Filtering and Monitoring Standards compliant. DNS over HTTPS should in any case be blocked in school. Are you planning filtering "school devices" on site or everywhere? Its always worth asking for product trials and to ask suppliers for references to schools that have a close a setup and requirement to your own if they can, and to check they really can do what the marketing says they can.

So haw many of you have bits of the TT network embeded in your ISP contract? Hoping your backup connectivity plans are all up to date and tested! https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/national-security-concerns-broadband-giant-talktalk-administration-5HjdhyZ_2/ Looks like a bit of a sh**show all round now that the Wholesale business rescue has collapsed.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/sep/25/talktalk-administration-deal-sell-consumer-arm Hopefully, administration.

Probably wouldn’t be smart enough to handle “proper cheese” either.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/owners-mourn-spoiled-food-after-firmware-update-bricks-samsung-smart-fridges/

We bought 1860litres on the 28th Aug at 84.5p. Looking at Boilerjuice, the price does seem to be in a downward direction again.

I don’t know Securly, but for iPads (iOS), if you can append “-ai” to the Google search query, it should remove the AI summary from the search results. (Easy with Netsweeper). For Windows devices, the same can be achieved by appending “&udm=14” .

So how many schools are still using free or other non-enterprise versions or have not enabled ZDR policies on the enterprise version? https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-use-ai-with-your-privacy-intact/ “When you start typing into one of the big three AI chatbots—ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini—it’s safest to start with a baseline expectation of approximately zero real privacy from anyone who is determined to access your conversation records and has a legal path to obtaining them. That includes the owner of the service, advertisers or other companies they partner with, contractors who help fine-tune the systems, law enforcement agencies, or even someone who manages to subpoena the records as part of a civil lawsuit. The simplest, strong exception to that rule is a contract between you—or more likely, your employer—and an AI provider that legally prevents them from retaining those records, a provision that’s come to be known as zero data retention, or ZDR. OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google all offer ZDR policies for their enterprise versions, which when enabled generally require that they immediately delete records of users’ interactions with a chatbot as soon as they’re processed. Even these ZDR policies, which are only available for paid enterprise and developer accounts rather than for average users, have significant exceptions. Anthropic, for instance, doesn’t offer ZDR for its most sophisticated “Mythos-class” models like Fable 5.1, due to what it describes as the potential for misuse like scamming or hacking and even “autonomous misbehavior,” such as AI agents independently hacking targets to carry out their unwitting users’ requests, as has occurred in several high-profile AI-driven breaches. OpenAI also announced last month that its ZDR implementations will analyze user activity prior to deletion—on the customer’s systems rather than its own, it says—and, if it detects abuse, flag it for the customer organization. OpenAI says its system, known as Private Safety Processing, will even alert OpenAI’s staff if it detects abuse in some cases, though without revealing the content of the conversation to them. Google, too, warns that it logs some Gemini prompts for abuse monitoring even with ZDR enabled, but without the user’s Google ID or IP address included—though that “sanitized” data can in some cases still pinpoint a particular person when the request itself includes identifiable information.”

I have had success with Option 2 in this link in the past. Specifically the fix commands. https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Desktop-Hardware-and-Upgrade-Questions/Error-code-0xc0000098/td-p/9430066

I took it as "Building Schools for the Future?

TBH, many of our teachers are unable/unwilling(?) to use the tools they are provided with to see if their class are using their devices for learning, configuring luxury cars or any other distraction. The bottom line is "cold hard cash", or lack of.

"Shadow IT" is well and truly in ascendance again!

I wouldn't accept anything like this into "production" without: a) Adequate documentation. b) Some definition of accountability around the app and its data governance. c) Some GDPR sign off (if appropriate). d) Evidence it has been "properly tested". I hope somebody costed this/had a budget before they started.

We also discuss issues and events related to filtering and monitoring that occurred during the year since the last review as part of this year's review. We found some proper fails this year. Ignoring other details, one was a member of staff letting some pupils user their staff account as the pupils were blocked from a couple of sites they wanted to play on. This sort of thing doesn't just fall out of standard reports/alerts, though was discovered through analysing log data so that somebody could visit the room. We find Manga and Anime continue to be challenging to filter without over-blocking.

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/claude-chats-publicly-

Whilst I completely agree, my DSL doesn't have the technical wherewithall to do this, moreso when they are teaching, in meetings with agencies etc

I confess I'm actually "shocked", if after all this time, there are schools are not running decryption (or something equivalent), and frankly, knowing (unfortunately), what is hosted on some domains probably considered essential that cannot be identified without decryption, I'm chilled to the core. Although knowing what is being searched for including deliberate typos, random space, slang and other techniques is a safeguarding issue, the priority is surely regularly taking a deep dive into "what was and can be found", but shouldn’t be, and nearly as important, "what's blocked and shouldn't be".

Personally, I don't think that showing that some specific url subdomains are blocked does anything but lull a false sense of security. That is all the test tool does. At least one school ISP blocks the urls anyway, so you will always pass regardless of whether you filtering is actually up to scratch or not anyway. EG if testfiltering.pornhub.com is blocked, The tool will tell you you have porn filtering in place regardless of whether you actually do, or not. https://testfiltering.com/faq/ See "Information for filter providers" The best you can hope for by running the tool is to show whether your filtering is likely switched on or not. I note it has been upgraded a little since I last looked at it.

https://nysfocus.com/2026/07/14/new-york-humanoid-robot-teacher-salamanca-school-district Further comment from the author: