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Marketplace All-in-One - Fewer students are enrolling in computer science classes and majors

According to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, the number of students enrolling in computer and information science decreased this past fall from the year before. That's at both the graduate and undergraduate level and the first drop since 2020. Meanwhile, the Computing Research Association says there's been a decline in a number of computing-related majors. Marketplace’s Stephanie Hughes spoke with Kari George, Senior Research Associate at the CRA's Center for Evaluating the Research Pipeline to learn more.

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WSJ What’s News - Chip Crisis Sends Consumer Tech Prices Soaring

A.M. Edition for Feb. 17. A growing shortage of memory-chips is squeezing the makers of phones, laptops and games consoles, sending prices skyrocketing. WSJ’s Tim Martin explains how non-AI buyers are having to choose between raising prices, trimming margins, or reducing device memory. Plus the U.S. government is emerging from the holiday weekend partially shutdown. And we look at why this winter is worse and weirder than usual. Luke Vargas hosts.


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The Daily - After Venezuela, Is Cuba Next?

For more than six decades, the United States has tried to topple the regime in Cuba. After ousting President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela, who was one of Cuba’s closest allies, the Trump administration is closer than ever to forcing radical change on the island.

The New York Times reporters Frances Robles and Michael Crowley discuss how the latest escalation is pushing Cuba to the brink, and whether this time the United States will get what it wants. 

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  • Frances Robles, an international correspondent covering Latin America and the Caribbean for The New York Times.
  • Michael Crowley, a reporter covering the State Department and U.S. foreign policy for The New York Times.

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Start Here - Don’t Touch: Judge Slams WH Over History Exhibit

A federal judge orders the White House to restore a slavery exhibit at Independence National  Historic Park in Philadelphia. A father goes on trial in Georgia after allegedly gifting his son an assault-style rifle used in a mass shooting. And President Trump presses for voting reform that would create national voter ID laws. 

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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 2.17.26

Alabama

  • Congressman Barry Moore on Democrats refusing to support the SAVE Act
  • Two GOP candidates are removed from primary ballot by ALGOP leaders
  • A bill is filed to protect first responders on the scene performing duties
  • AL House to vote on two bills to reduce cost for pre-screening of cancer
  • Developer of Solar Farm project in Baldwin county wants to dialogue with residents

National

  • Trump says Marco Rubio is in talks with Cuba, as its socialism fails miserably
  • President Trump says those who abducted Nancy Guthrie will face the death penalty if she is not returned alive
  • Mike Lee of UT says the SAVE Act can be passed without nuking filibuster
  • WV senate passes bill to prohibit abortion drug mailed to anyone in state
  • NM legislature passes bill to investigate Jeffrey Epstein's Zorro Ranch
  • more Fallout from the Epstein documents released by DOJ
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What A Day - The MAGA Health Movement

It's been about a year since President Donald Trump signed an executive order, "Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission." Since then, MAHA has brought together a lot of strange bedfellows, ranging from people who want Americans to eat less sugar to others who want to ban the polio vaccine. Which begs the question — what, exactly, is the Make America Healthy Again movement… and is any of it actually making America healthier? To find out, we spoke to Rina Raphael. She's a journalist focused on wellness culture and the author of The Gospel of Wellness: Gyms, Gurus, Goop, and the False Promise of Self-Care.

And in headlines, U.S. and Iranian representatives are set to meet today in Switzerland, funding for the Department of Homeland Security expired over the weekend, and former President Barack Obama feeds our inner conspiracy theorist by talking about aliens on a podcast.

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WSJ Tech News Briefing - AI Boom Creates Blind Spot in Big Tech Accounting

AI experimentation in the workplace is now showing tangible effects, from productivity gains to layoffs. Erik Brynjolfsson, a professor at Stanford's Institute for Human-Centered AI and cofounder of Workhelix, recently spoke with the WSJ Leadership Institute's Wendy Bounds at the WSJ Technology Council Summit. They discussed AI's influence on the labor market. Plus, WSJ Heard on the Street columnist Jonathan Weil says the AI boom is making it more challenging to analyze tech companies’ earnings due to unclear depreciation expenses. Julie Chang hosts.


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The Indicator from Planet Money - How Iran’s flagging economy inflamed its protests

According to activists, Iran has killed over 7,000 people as part of a crackdown on protesters. Why did protests engulf Iran in the first place? A big contributor: Its flagging economy, which has been in a tailspin for years. It’s a tinderbox.

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Iran, protests, and sanctions
The Lost Plane

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NPR's Book of the Day - ‘Crux’ is a novel about rock climbing, but risk exists far beyond the mountain’s edge

Rock climbing is a great sport for thrill-seekers. In Gabriel Tallent’s Crux, main characters Dan and Tamma fit the bill perfectly. At just 17 years old, they bond over the side of a mountain where one miscalculated inch of movement could mean life or death. However, risk doesn’t disappear once they make it safely to flat ground. For Dan and Tamma, risk exists in growing up, and growing out of their physical and emotional comfort zones. In today’s episode, Tallent joins NPR’s Juana Summers to discuss his newest novel and how rock climbing can widen more than one type of human perspective.


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The Best One Yet - 🚁 “Unmanned everything” — Olympics drone’s highlight. Stocks’ Grim Reaper. Save the Allbirds. +Ski Job Bonus

Gold medal for NBC Olympics? Goes to the drones… which is low-key dominated by China.

Tech stocks are 6% off their all-time-highs… but the rest of the world is lapping us.

Allbirds is closing all their stores… we think they should embrace the ugly.

The new way to get ahead at work? Ski black diamonds…


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