Jeff Dillon

Sam Altman says four years of college is too long. The math says he is closer than higher ed wants to admit. Sam Altman went to Stanford. He left after two years. He now runs OpenAI. Last month he spoke at an event for tech interns. Someone asked him about college. He said two years was the right amount of time for him, and that the way the world has changed, college should not be as long as it is. He said staying two more years would have given him very little. (TechSpot) He is not the only...

Ten years ago, Google told higher education to go find a new search engine. It is doing it again. In February 2016, Google announced it was discontinuing the Google Search Appliance. No new hardware sales after 2016, support winding down through 2018, and complete discontinuation by 2019. Hundreds of institutions that had built campus search around a rack-mounted box in a data center got about two years to figure out what came next. Google offered no migration path and no replacement product....

In July, security researchers found a serious bug in WordPress. People are calling it WP2Shell. Josh Koenig, co-founder of the WebOps hosting company Pantheon, said it best in a recent interview with EdTech Connect: "This is the most serious WordPress security update ever." He's not exaggerating. On most WordPress sites, this bug lets an attacker take over the whole site without even logging in. No password needed. That's about as bad as a bug can get, and it was sitting inside WordPress...