HARRISBURG – Rep. Martin Causer (R-Cameron/McKean/Potter) today announced 15 school entities in the region will be receiving more than $1.9 million in School Safety and Mental Health Grants through the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency (PCCD). The funding is designed to help schools strengthen physical security, address safety concerns and provide behavioral health support for...Read More
Editor’s Note: In this thought-provoking talk, developmental psychologist Candice Odgers challenges the widely held belief that smartphones and social media are the primary drivers of the youth mental health crisis. Drawing on 25 years of research, she argues that focusing on bans fails to address the root causes of teen distress and instead lets big tech companies off the...Read More
A 74-year-old Centralia man who was the subject of an Online Predator Prevention investigation has pleaded guilty to one of the four felony charges pending against him in Clinton County Court. George Running admitted in a plea agreement to a Class 4 felony charge of traveling to meet a minor. Three other counts, grooming, indecent...Read More
Dive Brief: The Coalition for Health AI has convened a work group of nearly 100 health system, payer and industry leaders to address cyber risks associated with frontier artificial intelligence models, the nonprofit standards organization announced Wednesday. The group will meet biweekly with the goal of creating and publishing health AI cybersecurity guidance by the...Read More
WITH Bullying No Way Week running from 17 to 21 August, families and schools are being encouraged to take a closer look at how bullying is affecting children, in the playground and online. A new national campaign, Let’s Stop Bullying, has been launched with free resources aimed at helping school-aged children, parents and carers recognise...Read More
I’m what you might call a sweat king. Self-proclaimed, of course. I don’t need to be doing much, and running three times a week through a New York City summer while training for the marathon? You can only imagine. It’s been a pretty gross season for running, too, with temperatures pushing into the upper 80s,...Read More
Threat actors started exploiting an unpatched zero-day vulnerability in GeoServer hours after it was publicly disclosed, attack surface management firm WatchTowr says. The security defect, described as an SQL injection issue that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution (RCE), was disclosed on Wednesday by a security researcher named q1uf3ng. According to the researcher’s...Read More
