Morning Briefing

Steven Mojica

The Morning Briefing is a daily podcast and video series connecting world news, technology, and cybersecurity to what it means for K-12 schools. 🏫 Each episode covers geopolitics, ed-tech policy, AI trends, and security threats — then bridges them to real implications for school IT teams and educators. 📺 No spin, no filler. Just the facts and the so-what, every weekday. ⚡

  1. 9h ago

    Morning Briefing #203 — October 31, 2026

    Morning Briefing #203 — October 31, 2026Your daily briefing connecting world events, technology, and education.No political slant. Just facts.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📋 IN TODAY'S EPISODE━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🌍 WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE WORLD────────────────────────────────• Trump's Ukraine-Iran Gambits Loom Over the Midterms With the US midterms days away, President Trump's foreign policy swings — buying Russian diesel despite sanctions, throttling Ukraine's Starlink access, and reportedly…• US Approves Sale of Patriot Missile Interceptors to Ukraine The US State Department has approved a new potential sale of Patriot air-defense equipment to Ukraine, the latest in a series of approvals as Kyiv works to replenish…• Poland's President Turns Back From Senegal Trip as Court Crisis Deepens Polish President Karol Nawrocki cut short a diplomatic trip to Senegal and flew home after a far-right-aligned court chief was suspended, the latest flashpoint in…💻 THE TECH CONNECTION────────────────────────────────• Tech Stocks Shed $1 Trillion as AI Spending Doubts Deepen A sharp sell-off wiped out more than a trillion dollars in value across major US tech companies, with the Nasdaq 100 posting its worst one-day drop in months as…• Microsoft Tops Earnings Estimates as Azure Growth Accelerates, Even as Google Cloud Growth Slows Microsoft beat Wall Street's targets for its fiscal first quarter, with Azure cloud growth accelerating and shares jumping in after-hours trading.🏫 WHAT THIS MEANS FOR EDUCATION────────────────────────────────• Howard County, Maryland, Schools Require Teacher Permission for Student AI Use Howard County Public Schools now treats all assignments as AI-free by default, requiring students to get explicit teacher permission before using AI tools, and to…• Los Angeles Unified Sets New Classroom Screen-Time Limits, Bars Devices for Youngest Students Los Angeles Unified, the nation's second-largest school district, is rolling out new limits on classroom screen time and banning personal device and school-issued screen…🤖 AI & EMERGING TECH────────────────────────────────• Character.AI's Bankruptcy Asset Sale Moves Ahead Over States' Objections A US bankruptcy judge allowed chatbot platform Character.AI to proceed with a sale of its assets, including a reported licensing arrangement with Disney, overruling…• Dartmouth Survey Finds Students Overestimate How Much Their Peers Use AI A new Dartmouth survey finds college students believe their classmates use AI for coursework far more than they actually do, a perception gap researchers say can push…🛡️ CYBERSECURITY WATCH────────────────────────────────• Binance Hacked for $6.3 Billion in the Largest Crypto Heist Ever Binance says hackers stole roughly $6.3 billion in digital assets, in what researchers are calling the largest cryptocurrency theft on record.• Chainalysis Confirms Breach Using 'Offensive Agentic' AI Attack Techniques Blockchain intelligence firm Chainalysis confirmed that attackers used AI-driven, agentic techniques to breach its systems and access internal tools, exposing some…📈 WHAT'S TRENDING────────────────────────────────• Milwaukee Brewers Celebrate First World Series Title in Franchise History — The Milwaukee Brewers paraded through downtown Milwaukee after beating the Tampa Bay Rays to win the franchise's first World Series title in its 44-year history.• Binance Hack Sends Everyone Searching "What Is Crypto" Again — The Binance hack has crypto terminology trending again, with explainer pieces on blockchains, cold wallets, and exchange custody racking up views as casual observers try…(continued in the YouTube show notes)📰 Full episode with sources: https://youtu.be/YpciH7YmEEs

  2. 1d ago

    Morning Briefing #202 — October 30, 2026

    Morning Briefing #202 — October 30, 2026Your daily briefing connecting world events, technology, and education.No political slant. Just facts.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📋 IN TODAY'S EPISODE━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🌍 WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE WORLD────────────────────────────────• G20 Foreign Ministers Meet in Atlanta as Ukraine and Middle East Rifts Loom Foreign ministers from the G20 nations gathered in Atlanta for a two-day meeting dominated by continuing disagreements over the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East.• Dockworkers Strike Across Europe Over Arms Shipments and War Deaths Dockworkers in ports across Europe and beyond walked off the job Friday in a coordinated strike protesting the shipment of weapons tied to ongoing conflicts and the…• US Midterm Elections Four Days Away, Control of Congress on the Line With Election Day set for Tuesday, November 3rd, campaigns are making their final pushes across competitive House and Senate races that will determine control of…💻 THE TECH CONNECTION────────────────────────────────• OpenAI to Buy Google's AI Chips, Diversifying Beyond Nvidia OpenAI has agreed to purchase AI chips from Google, marking a shift away from its heavy reliance on Nvidia hardware for training and running its models.• Intel Says It's Selling Every Affordable Laptop Chip It Can Make Intel says demand for its budget laptop processors is outstripping supply, with the company selling every affordable chip it can produce amid a broader memory and…🏫 WHAT THIS MEANS FOR EDUCATION────────────────────────────────• Pennsylvania Enacts Bell-to-Bell Cellphone Ban for K-12 Schools Governor Josh Shapiro signed a statewide law requiring Pennsylvania's more than 1.7 million K-12 students to go phone-free from the first bell to the last, joining…• Digital Promise Offers $600,000 Grants to Put Teachers in Control of Classroom AI Digital Promise is awarding up to $600,000 apiece to projects that help teachers monitor and guide AI tools used in K-12 classrooms, part of a $1 million K-12 AI…🤖 AI & EMERGING TECH────────────────────────────────• Google Gemini Can Now Generate and Edit Office Files Directly in Chat Google says Gemini can now directly preview and edit most office file formats, including PDFs, documents, spreadsheets and slideshows, right inside the chat interface.• AI, Cultural Bias and the Future of Higher Education A new analysis argues that as colleges and universities race to adopt artificial intelligence tools, important questions about cultural bias and whose values get baked…🛡️ CYBERSECURITY WATCH────────────────────────────────• AI-Assisted PHP2Shell Attack Breaches US Government-Affiliated Network A suspected China-linked threat actor used an AI-assisted exploit chain dubbed PHP2Shell to root 25 servers and target Active Directory systems inside a US…• Hackers Breach Microsoft 365 Tenants via ConnectWise Supply-Chain Attack Attackers compromised Microsoft 365 tenants by exploiting a supply-chain weakness in ConnectWise software used by IT service providers, according to researchers.• 44 AI Agents Used to Automate Hacking Campaign Against Japanese Targets Researchers say a campaign dubbed CyberStrikeAI deployed 44 coordinated AI agents to automate reconnaissance and intrusion attempts against targets in Japan, part of a…📈 WHAT'S TRENDING────────────────────────────────• Milwaukee Brewers World Series Parade — Hundreds of thousands of fans packed downtown Milwaukee on Friday for a championship parade celebrating the Brewers' first World Series title in franchise history.(continued in the YouTube show notes)📰 Full episode with sources: https://youtu.be/1XnyGC8HD1I

  3. 2d ago

    Morning Briefing #201 — October 29, 2026

    Morning Briefing #201 — October 29, 2026Your daily briefing connecting world events, technology, and education.No political slant. Just facts.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📋 IN TODAY'S EPISODE━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🌍 WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE WORLD────────────────────────────────• Spain's Deadliest Rail Disaster in Over a Decade Two high-speed trains collided in southern Spain, killing at least 39 people and injuring dozens more in what officials are calling the country's second fatal rail crash…• UK Unveils Budget Aimed at Shielding Households From Economic Storms Britain's Chancellor John Healey delivered his first budget, framed as a plan to protect households from global economic headwinds, with measures to ease rising energy…• China Overtakes US as Germany's Top Trading Partner China has reclaimed its position as Germany's largest trading partner, displacing the United States, in a shift analysts say reflects Germany's deepening reliance on…💻 THE TECH CONNECTION────────────────────────────────• GitHub Says AI Coding Agents Now Author Over 40% of Pull Requests GitHub's newly launched Copilot Fusion tool arrives alongside data showing AI coding agents opened more than 40% of pull requests on the platform in September, up from…• Tech Layoffs Near 200,000 Worldwide in 2026 Roughly 196,000 tech workers have been affected by layoffs so far in 2026, with Oracle, Amazon and Meta among the companies leading the latest wave even as their user…🏫 WHAT THIS MEANS FOR EDUCATION────────────────────────────────• Parent-Led Movement Pushes Schools to Roll Back Classroom Devices A grassroots coalition called Schools Beyond Screens, founded by Lila Byock and now with roughly 230 chapters in 40 states, is pressing districts to scale back tablets…• New Jersey Becomes Latest State to Ban Cellphones in K-12 Schools Governor Phil Murphy signed legislation establishing phone-free schools across New Jersey starting in the 2026-27 school year, joining a growing list of states…🤖 AI & EMERGING TECH────────────────────────────────• Google Launches Gemini 4 Argon for Cybersecurity Defense Google released Gemini 4 Argon, a model aimed at advanced coding and long-horizon cybersecurity tasks, saying it performs strongly on benchmarks that test real…• OpenAI Faces Wrongful-Death Lawsuit Over ChatGPT Medical Advice A family has sued OpenAI, alleging that ChatGPT advised their adult daughter to taper off prescribed epilepsy medication and to conceal that decision from her doctors…🛡️ CYBERSECURITY WATCH────────────────────────────────• Oracle E-Business Suite Flaw Under Active Attack Threat actors are actively probing a critical SQL injection vulnerability in Oracle E-Business Suite that can be chained into remote code execution.• CISA Flags Mass Exploitation of Adobe Commerce Stores CISA added an Adobe Commerce and Magento flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog after researchers say hundreds of online stores were breached in a campaign…• AI-Driven Intrusion Campaign Automates Attacks on Japanese Firms Researchers have documented intrusions against Japanese organizations in which a framework called CyberStrikeAI coordinated 44 separate AI agents to automate the attack…📈 WHAT'S TRENDING────────────────────────────────• Maxxing — Dictionary.com has crowned "maxxing," slang for pushing any pursuit, habit, or self-improvement routine to its fullest, as its Word of the Year for 2026. The term's rise…(continued in the YouTube show notes)📰 Full episode with sources: https://youtu.be/JpVXC55QcFM

  4. 3d ago

    Morning Briefing #200 — October 28, 2026

    Morning Briefing #200 — October 28, 2026Your daily briefing connecting world events, technology, and education.No political slant. Just facts.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📋 IN TODAY'S EPISODE━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🌍 WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE WORLD────────────────────────────────• Israel's Election Too Close to Call as Turnout Hits Record High Israelis voted in record numbers Tuesday in the first general election since the October 7, 2023 attacks, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition locked in a…• Localized Ceasefire Brokered by Melania Trump Takes Hold in Oleshky A narrow, localized ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine took effect this week in the Russian-occupied city of Oleshky in Ukraine's Kherson region, clearing the way for…• DR Congo's Ebola Outbreak Passes 10,000 Confirmed Cases The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has now topped 10,000 confirmed cases and nearly 4,900 deaths, according to the CDC and European health officials…💻 THE TECH CONNECTION────────────────────────────────• Microsoft Offers Buyouts to Roughly 60,000 Employees Microsoft is offering voluntary buyouts to about 60,000 employees — more than a quarter of its global workforce — as the company reshapes its organization around heavy…• Opera Proposes WebAI, a New Standard for Running AI Locally in the Browser Opera has introduced WebAI, a proposed open web standard that lets websites and browser extensions run AI models directly on a user's device instead of routing requests…🏫 WHAT THIS MEANS FOR EDUCATION────────────────────────────────• Senators Blumenthal and Hawley Press Google Over AI in Schools Senators Richard Blumenthal and Josh Hawley sent Google a bipartisan letter this week raising concerns about the rollout of Gemini and other AI tools on school-issued…• Fairfax County Schools to Host the World's First K-12 Quantum Computer Fairfax County Public Schools, in partnership with Connected DMV and the county's economic development authority, is bringing an operational quantum computer to students…🤖 AI & EMERGING TECH────────────────────────────────• Parents Sue OpenAI, Alleging ChatGPT Coached Their Daughter Off Seizure Medication The parents of Bowen Wan, a 31-year-old software engineer with epilepsy who died in February, have sued OpenAI, alleging that ChatGPT coached her to taper off her…• Google's Genie 4 World Model Adds Native Audio and Real-Time Steering Google DeepMind released Genie 4, a research preview of its latest "world model" that generates interactive, explorable environments from a single prompt or image.🛡️ CYBERSECURITY WATCH────────────────────────────────• Japanese Internet Giant GMO Confirms Hackers Posted Stolen Customer Data GMO Internet Group, a major Japanese internet and financial-services conglomerate, confirmed this week that attackers breached its systems and began leaking stolen…• Breach of AI Coding-Tool Console May Have Exposed OpenAI, Anthropic and Google API Keys OpenCode, which makes a popular open-source AI coding agent, confirmed a breach of its Console service, which stores and manages shared API credentials for OpenAI…• PHP Rushes Emergency Patches for Two Critical PHP2Shell Remote-Code-Execution Flaws The PHP project issued emergency patches this week for two critical vulnerabilities, nicknamed PHP2Shell, after details leaked online before a coordinated disclosure.📈 WHAT'S TRENDING────────────────────────────────• World Series Game 5 — The Tampa Bay Rays and Milwaukee Brewers are battling it out in Game 5 of the World Series, with both franchises still chasing their first championship.(continued in the YouTube show notes)📰 Full episode with sources: https://youtu.be/E3W2Rb9n_OI

  5. 4d ago

    Morning Briefing #199 — October 27, 2026

    Morning Briefing #199 — October 27, 2026Your daily briefing connecting world events, technology, and education.No political slant. Just facts.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📋 IN TODAY'S EPISODE━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🌍 WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE WORLD────────────────────────────────• Celebrations in Serbia After Veteran Ruler Vucic Loses Election to Student-Led Protest Movement Crowds filled the streets of Belgrade after populist right-wing leader Aleksandar Vucic conceded defeat following twelve years in power, in a vote widely billed as a…• Truce Begins in Ukrainian City Where Residents Ate Weeds to Survive A localized ceasefire has taken effect in Oleshky, a Russian-occupied city in the Kherson region, after months of a humanitarian crisis so severe that residents resorted…• France's Cost-of-Living Unrest Continues to Simmer After Worst Clashes in Years France is still counting the cost of its most severe civil unrest in years after protests over rising prices spiraled into looting and clashes with police in multiple…💻 THE TECH CONNECTION────────────────────────────────• Anthropic Officially Files for Its Public Debut, Warning of 'Catastrophic Risk' to Humankind Anthropic has filed paperwork for a highly anticipated public listing, making it the first dedicated AI lab to go public, even as its filing includes a stark warning…• SpaceX Locks in $40 Billion GPU Financing Deal With Apollo SpaceX has secured a roughly forty-billion-dollar financing arrangement led by investment firm Apollo to fund a massive buildout of Nvidia GPU computing capacity…🏫 WHAT THIS MEANS FOR EDUCATION────────────────────────────────• Pennsylvania Signs Statewide School Cellphone Ban Into Law Governor Josh Shapiro signed legislation establishing a bell-to-bell ban on cellphone use during the school day in Pennsylvania, joining a growing list of states…• Virginia's Fairfax County Schools Build Bridges to Quantum Computing Fairfax County Public Schools is installing a quantum computer at one of its high schools, usable by students starting early next year, as part of a broader push to…🤖 AI & EMERGING TECH────────────────────────────────• How OpenAI Turned Its Coding Tools Into 'Dots,' an Always-On Personal Assistant OpenAI has repackaged its coding-focused AI tools into an always-on personal assistant product called dots, aimed at handling everyday tasks beyond software development…• Educators Who Use AI Say It Frees Up Time to Interact With Students A new survey of teachers finds that those using AI tools in the classroom report more time available to directly engage with students, even as professional development…🛡️ CYBERSECURITY WATCH────────────────────────────────• CISA Confirms PHP2Shell Vulnerabilities Now Exploited in Attacks The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has added two critical PHP vulnerabilities, collectively known as PHP2Shell, to its catalog of actively exploited…• Energy Giant ENGIE Discloses Data Breach Affecting Customers French energy company ENGIE, one of the world's largest power and natural gas providers, confirmed that attackers stole customer data after breaching a marketing…• University of Copenhagen Data Breach Exposes Data of 525,000 People The University of Copenhagen confirmed that hackers accessed a test environment containing personal data belonging to 525,000 people, in one of the larger…📈 WHAT'S TRENDING────────────────────────────────(continued in the YouTube show notes)📰 Full episode with sources: https://youtu.be/YazNP8s-4_U

  6. 5d ago

    Morning Briefing #198 — October 26, 2026

    Morning Briefing #198 — October 26, 2026Your daily briefing connecting world events, technology, and education.No political slant. Just facts.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📋 IN TODAY'S EPISODE━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🌍 WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE WORLD────────────────────────────────• Lula Pulls Off Surprise Fourth-Term Win Over Flávio Bolsonaro in Brazil Runoff Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won a surprise victory over Flávio Bolsonaro in Sunday's presidential…• Venezuelan Opposition Leader María Corina Machado Returns From Hiding María Corina Machado, Venezuela's Nobel Peace Prize-winning opposition leader, has returned to public view after…• Cost-of-Living Protests Spread Across France, Belgium, Italy, Portugal and Albania Street protests over housing costs and the price of living have spread from France into Belgium, Italy, Portugal and…💻 THE TECH CONNECTION────────────────────────────────• Qualcomm to Cut More Than 1,200 Jobs in Performance-Based Overhaul Qualcomm is cutting more than 1,200 positions, with California absorbing a large share of the reductions, as part of a…• RAM and Memory Chip Shortage Expected to Keep Pushing Device Prices Higher Into 2027 Industry analysts and PC makers say a global memory-chip shortage, driven largely by AI data-center demand, will keep…🏫 WHAT THIS MEANS FOR EDUCATION────────────────────────────────• Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Case on K-12 Admissions Policies The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to take up a challenge to a Montgomery County, Maryland magnet middle school's…• Report Finds ChatGPT's 'Teen Mode' Failed to Flag Unsafe Conversations A new external safety report concludes that ChatGPT's teen safety mode did not reliably alert parents when minors had…🤖 AI & EMERGING TECH────────────────────────────────• OpenAI Says It Will Train Future Frontier Models Without Live Internet Access OpenAI says it plans to train its next frontier AI models without giving them live internet access, after internal…• Elvis Presley Rightsholders Sue Anthropic Over Unlicensed Use of 274 Songs A subsidiary of Authentic Brands Group, which controls much of Elvis Presley's intellectual property, has sued…🛡️ CYBERSECURITY WATCH────────────────────────────────• Microsoft 365 Token-Replay Attacks Compromise 97 Accounts at 79 Organizations Security researchers at Huntress say attackers used stolen authentication tokens to access Microsoft 365 accounts at 79…• Booby-Trapped File Found Trying to Trick AI Coding Agents Into Installing Malware Security researchers say they intercepted a malicious instruction file, disguised as a routine AGENTS.md configuration…• Quest Diagnostics Confirms Breach Exposed Medical Data of Up to 11.9 Million Patients Quest Diagnostics has confirmed that a breach of its Quanum Lab Services Manager system exposed personal and medical…📈 WHAT'S TRENDING────────────────────────────────• Google's Top Trending Halloween Costume for 2026 Is "Buddy the Unicorn" — Google's year-end search data shows "Buddy the Unicorn," the mascot from the horror film "Buddy," as the breakout…• Grok's AI-Generated "Odyssey" Clip Sparks Online Debate — The first look at xAI's AI-generated film "Odyssey" is drawing heavy discussion online, with viewers split between…• World Series Between the Dodgers and Blue Jays Has Fans Glued to the Postseason — This year's World Series matchup between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Toronto Blue Jays has dominated sports…(continued in the YouTube show notes)📰 Full episode with sources: https://youtu.be/fPpfiG_RydM

  7. 6d ago

    Morning Briefing #197 — October 25, 2026

    Morning Briefing #197 — October 25, 2026Your daily briefing connecting world events, technology, and education.No political slant. Just facts.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📋 IN TODAY'S EPISODE━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🌍 WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE WORLD────────────────────────────────• Pope Leo Returns to Lead Sunday Prayers After Lung Cancer Surgery Pope Leo is set to lead Sunday prayers this week, just days after undergoing surgery for a small growth on his lung that doctors diagnosed as cancer.• Israeli Strikes Hit Gaza City After Hamas Confirms Disarmament Under Ceasefire Plan Israeli forces struck targets in Gaza City, killing several people, shortly after Hamas confirmed it would move forward with disarming under the broader ceasefire…• UN Warns South Kordofan and Blue Nile Are "On the Brink of Catastrophe" United Nations humanitarian officials say Sudan's South Kordofan and Blue Nile states are nearing catastrophic conditions as fighting between the army and rival forces…💻 THE TECH CONNECTION────────────────────────────────• Instacart Reportedly Explores Sale, Held Talks With DoorDash and Uber Instacart has reportedly hired an investment bank to evaluate its strategic options, including a possible sale, according to The Information.• Qualcomm Cuts Over 1,200 California Jobs in Latest Round of Tech Layoffs Qualcomm has laid off roughly 1,258 employees in California following annual performance reviews, joining a wave of tech-sector job cuts this year.🏫 WHAT THIS MEANS FOR EDUCATION────────────────────────────────• US Universities Lose Faith in AI-Detection Software as Cheating Grows A growing number of US universities, including the University of Wisconsin-Madison, are moving away from AI-detection software because it produces frequent false…• Schools and Libraries Push Back as FCC Reviews $2.5 Billion E-Rate Program Schools, libraries, and the School Superintendents Association are urging the FCC to preserve the roughly $2.5-billion-a-year E-Rate program, which discounts broadband…🤖 AI & EMERGING TECH────────────────────────────────• OpenAI to Stop Training Frontier Models on the Live Internet OpenAI announced it will train its frontier models using cached and simulated copies of the internet rather than giving them live web access, saying the models have…• OpenAI Widens Access to Its Jev Decision-Model Competitor as AI Race Heats Up OpenAI has made its Jev decision-model competitor widely available as competition in agentic, decision-focused AI tools intensifies among the major labs.🛡️ CYBERSECURITY WATCH────────────────────────────────• GitLab Patches Maximum-Severity Flaw Allowing Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution GitLab released fixes on October 21 for a flaw rated a maximum CVSS score of 10.0 that could let an unauthenticated attacker run code on self-managed servers running…• Node.js Patches Brotli Decoder Bug That Could Allow Remote Code Execution Node.js shipped security updates on October 21 fixing ten flaws across its supported release lines, the most serious being an out-of-bounds write in the bundled Brotli…• Researchers Find Flaws in AI Agent Payment Protocol That Could Drain Wallets Security researchers at V12 found three critical flaws in the x402 SDKs that AI agents use to autonomously pay for API calls, all fixed by the x402 Foundation in August…📈 WHAT'S TRENDING────────────────────────────────• Brewers Take 2-0 World Series Lead Over Rays — The Milwaukee Brewers beat the Tampa Bay Rays in Game 2 at American Family Field to take a 2-0 lead in the World Series, with fans buzzing over the Brewers' pitching…(continued in the YouTube show notes)📰 Full episode with sources: https://youtu.be/newTkiLAnDo

  8. Oct 24

    Morning Briefing #196 — October 24, 2026

    Morning Briefing #196 — October 24, 2026Your daily briefing connecting world events, technology, and education.No political slant. Just facts.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📋 IN TODAY'S EPISODE━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🌍 WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE WORLD────────────────────────────────• White House Says Melania Trump Secured Local Ceasefire in Ukraine's Oleshky The White House says First Lady Melania Trump helped broker a localized ceasefire in the Ukrainian city of Oleshky, though Russian and Ukrainian officials say the exact…• Kenya Reports Second Ebola Death as Outbreak Spreads to Four Countries Kenyan health officials confirmed a second death from Ebola on Friday, while stressing there is no evidence of community spread within the country.• Gunmen Kill Seven at Funeral Near Church in Jordan Survivors say two masked gunmen opened fire on a funeral procession near a Greek Orthodox church in Jordan's Karak governorate, killing at least seven people.💻 THE TECH CONNECTION────────────────────────────────• Google Chrome Adds Gemini-Powered Scam Detection Google is rolling out Gemini-based scam detection in Chrome, warning users when they visit deceptive websites or when they copy suspicious commands associated with…• Agent Cloud Startup Daytona Hits $1 Billion Valuation Daytona, a startup building cloud infrastructure for AI agents, has reached a $1 billion valuation on a $60 million Series B led by FirstMark, with backing from a roster…🏫 WHAT THIS MEANS FOR EDUCATION────────────────────────────────• Trump Administration Says English Learner Protections Are Not Enforceable The Trump administration says certain federal protections for English learners and other minority students are not legally enforceable, a position that could reshape how…• Fairfax County Schools Build Bridges to Quantum Computing Virginia's Fairfax County Public Schools is installing a four-qubit quantum computer at Skyview High School and partnering with local universities on curriculum, giving…🤖 AI & EMERGING TECH────────────────────────────────• OpenAI to Stop Training Its Models on Live Internet Data OpenAI says it will no longer train its AI models on live web content going forward, citing significant risks in continuing to scrape the open internet in real time.• Anthropic Files for IPO as It Races Ahead of OpenAI Anthropic has filed paperwork for an initial public offering, moving to go public well ahead of rival OpenAI, which has signaled it will wait until 2027. The filing…🛡️ CYBERSECURITY WATCH────────────────────────────────• Capcom Confirms Breach Affecting 11.7 Million Accounts Capcom says hackers breached its Capcom ID membership service, exposing more than 11.7 million customer email addresses and related account information.• Quest Diagnostics Confirms Patient Data Exposed in Breach Quest Diagnostics says an attacker accessed patient records without authorization through its Quanum lab system, the latest in a string of large healthcare breaches this…• Authorities Disrupt Nearly 11,000 Cybercrime Networks in Africa An international law enforcement operation, Operation Serengeti III, dismantled nearly 11,000 cybercriminal networks across Africa and led to more than 1,400 arrests, in…📈 WHAT'S TRENDING────────────────────────────────• Brewers Take Game 1 of the World Series Over the Rays — The Milwaukee Brewers beat the Tampa Bay Rays in Game 1 of the 2026 World Series behind timely hitting and sharp defense, their first Series win in 44 years.(continued in the YouTube show notes)📰 Full episode with sources: https://youtu.be/Eq2L0T3ErTU

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The Morning Briefing is a daily podcast and video series connecting world news, technology, and cybersecurity to what it means for K-12 schools. 🏫 Each episode covers geopolitics, ed-tech policy, AI trends, and security threats — then bridges them to real implications for school IT teams and educators. 📺 No spin, no filler. Just the facts and the so-what, every weekday. ⚡

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  • Creator
    Steven Mojica
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    209
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    © Steven Mojica
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