A growing number of American states are introducing or implementing bans on cellphone use in schools, with seven already having statewide policies in place. The bans are primarily driven by concerns over youth mental health and academic performance, and have received bipartisan support. However, there are issues related to enforcement, accommodating exceptions, and equity. Moreover, the effectiveness of the bans remains a subject of limited research.

Ivanti VPN customers targeted via unrecognized RCE vulnerability (CVE-2025-22457)
A suspected Chinese advanced persistent threat (APT) group exploited CVE-2025-22457, a previously unexploitable buffer overflow bug, to compromise devices running Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) and