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Tech-Neill-ogy #119 - 30 November 2025

Tech-Neill-ogy #119 - 30 November 2025

Your Weekly Guide to Leveraging Technology in College Counseling

Jeffrey Neill
December 01, 2025

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Welcome to Tech-Neill-ogy #119!

Happy December! I hope the month goes smoothly for all of you as we await the ED releases. For now, just a quick note: the webinar I am scheduled to give with Cyndy McDonald on Student AI fluency has been moved to Tuesday at 4pm Brazil-time. Register below!

In any case, enjoy the rest of the newsletter!

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Perplexity's Comet AI browser may have some concerning security flaws which could let hacker hijack your device

SquareX says it found a 'hidden API' in the Comet browser. [I felt compelled to share after last week’s prompt share! Thanks for sharing, Michelle Silbernagel!]

www.techradar.com/pro/security/perplexitys-comet-ai-browser-may-have-some-concerning-security-flaws-which-could-let-hacker-hijack-your-device

Are We Teaching Children the Wrong Lessons About AI?

We keep warning children not to misuse AI. But in doing so, we might be teaching misuse itself. A 15-year-old reminded me how easily that happens.

www.linkedin.com/posts/koprowska_are-we-teaching-children-the-wrong-lessons-activity-7396162375931834368-fGsq

Podcast: Colby College Goes All In on AI

Inside Higher Ed’s Voices of Student Success discusses new tools to evaluate and compare various LLMs for higher education learning and research.

www.insidehighered.com/news/student-success/college-experience/2025/11/14/podcast-colby-college-goes-all-ai

An Economist Asked, How Much Should We Spend to Avoid the A.I. Apocalypse?

The question “at first struck me as too open-ended to be usefully addressed by standard economics,” said Charles Jones of Stanford. He took a shot anyway.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/business/dealbook/charles-jones-ai-apocalypse.html

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Learn how to unlock AI’s full potential with expert tips on crafting perfect prompts using a five-layer context engineering framework.

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https://www.edficacy.co/ - Tell them Jeff sent you!

Here’s a simple one I’ve used a few times lately, particularly with some university application guides (South Korea, Japan) with tremendous success.

I have a long PDF on [insert topic]. Extract only the most important information, create a summary, and convert it into a simple action plan I can execute or delegate.

Please, if you have any great prompts or ideas, please share! Send me a note at [email protected].