IT Trends :: Thursday, October 5, 2006

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Newsweek to Team Up with Kaplan to Offer Online MBA

“Traditional” colleges and universities felt a little frisson last week when this news came out at the same time as Ph'enix University bought the naming rights to a football stadium. Kaplan says the program will give students an education that uses breaking business news to illuminate the issues and theories that are part of the traditional MBA coursework. Newsweek reporters and editors will also talk with students about events making economic and corporate news…

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CU-Boulder Residence Halls To Offer Free Digital Music Service to Residents

The University of Colorado at Boulder began offering one of the nation’s largest music subscription services to all residents of its campus residence halls, family housing, and the Bear Creek Apartments at no charge. The whole idea is not “news” much anymore, but this is the largest Ctrax deal yet, serving up 2.2 million tunes free to anyone who lives in any kind of campus housing…

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    New Nonprofit to Work Toward Safer, Truthful AI

    Turing Award-winning AI researcher Yoshua Bengio has launched LawZero, a new nonprofit aimed at developing AI systems that prioritize safety and truthfulness over autonomy.

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    Hacktivism Is a Growing Threat to Higher Education

    In recent years, colleges and universities have faced an evolving array of cybersecurity challenges. But one threat is showing signs of becoming both more frequent and more politically charged: hacktivism.