On Episode 222, we unpack a busy week in school tech: a nationwide Google outage that disrupted Chromebook logins, new Sophos data showing improving ransomware recovery and falling ransom payments, and CETA’s annual report putting AI at the top of state priorities.

The conversation dives into the controversial campus drone pilot approved in Florida (non‑lethal pepper‑ball drones and on‑demand airborne security) and the AI Whack‑A‑Mole challenge as AI features appear inside search engines and become hard to block.

We also discuss promising advances in live, voice‑to‑voice translation for K12 meetings and classrooms.

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00:00:00-Intro

00:09:46-Swag Store Update

00:12:59-Cybersecurity Trends

00:20:30-Killer Drones in Schools

00:30:53-AI Search

00:41:10-Real-Time Language Interpretation

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