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TL;DR: Ivy League schools are spending hundreds of millions on AI but still dealing with mass cheating and cognitive decline in students. Meanwhile Philippine universities are building AI programs with way less resources, and the BPO industry that employs 1.5 million Filipinos is facing automation. Here's what the data looks like.

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Let me start with what's actually happening in the Ivy League right now because the scale is hard to believe.

Yale committed $150 million over 5 years to AI. That's one school. Harvard built an exascale computing cluster with 1,144 GPUs that hits 1.79 exaFLOPS. Dartmouth signed a deal with Anthropic and AWS to become the first Ivy League school to deploy AI across the entire institution. Every student and faculty member gets access. Columbia approved a new MS in Artificial Intelligence. UPenn launched the Ivy League's first AI degree in education. Brown got a $20 million NSF grant for AI mental health research.

Harvard Business School made their AI course mandatory for all 935 first-year MBAs. Yale hired 20+ new AI faculty. Cornell has 39 AI-related courses. Every single Ivy League school now has a dedicated AI initiative, institute, or center.

But money and hardware don't automatically mean they're getting it right.

Princeton just ended their 133-year honor code in May 2026. They're bringing back proctored exams because nearly 30% of seniors admitted to cheating with AI. UPenn's academic integrity violations for unfair advantage went up sevenfold. At King's Business School, 74% of students failed to disclose AI usage despite mandatory policies. A Columbia student said ChatGPT wrote 80% of every essay they submitted.

MIT ran a study on 54 students across five Boston universities using EEG brain monitoring for four months. The students who used AI heavily showed a 47% drop in neural connectivity across memory and reasoning areas. 83% of the ChatGPT group couldn't recall key points from their own essays. None of them could provide accurate quotes from their own work. The cognitive decline persisted even after they stopped using AI.

A survey of 1,057 US faculty found that 90% believe AI will diminish critical thinking, 95% say it will increase student overreliance, and 78% say AI-driven cheating is rising. 68% say their institutions haven't even prepared them to use AI in teaching.

So the schools spending $150 million on AI infrastructure are also dealing with students losing the ability to think independently.

Now the jobs side.

Entry-level software developer employment for ages 22-25 dropped 20% from the late 2022 peak. Indeed job postings for software development fell 53% in the same period. Computer science graduate unemployment is now 7%, which is comparable to anthropology.

Goldman Sachs estimates AI is cutting about 16,000 US jobs per month. Stanford's Digital Economy Lab found a 16% decline in early-career employment across AI-exposed occupations since ChatGPT launched. Job market confidence dropped from 70% of workers in 2022 to 28% now. College-educated workers are now more pessimistic about jobs than people without degrees, which is a reversal of how things have worked for decades.

42% of bachelor's students have reconsidered their major because of AI. 16% already changed it. But 88% still believe their degree will help them get a job, and 93% think they're learning the skills they need.

The degree still pays off economically. The college wage premium is at an all-time high of 68%, about $32,000 more per year than high school grads. The rate of return on a degree is 12.5%, which beats the stock market's 8%. But the specific degree matters way more than it used to.

Now the Philippines.

Philippine universities are working with completely different resource levels than the Ivy League. That's not a fair comparison and it was never going to be. Yale's $150 million AI budget alone probably exceeds the entire Philippine government's AI education spending across all agencies. But what's worth looking at is what's happening despite that gap.

UP has 15 Responsible AI Principles that cover things like cultural sensitivity and environmental impact that Harvard and Yale don't even mention. UP offers the country's first PhD in AI. UP Cebu is planning an online PhD in AI that won't require a master's degree. UP Open University has free MOOCs on AI in education. UP Diliman is working on becoming an ASEAN-level AI research center, with the Philippine Consulate in San Francisco helping connect UP with Silicon Valley.

DepEd moved faster than most US institutions on AI policy. They issued Department Order 003 in February 2026 with comprehensive AI guidelines for all public schools covering 24 million students. That's one of the first nationwide AI education policies in Southeast Asia. The AGAP.AI program with Microsoft targets 1.5 million students, teachers, and parents for AI literacy. Early results from pilot schools in Bais, Dumaguete, and Cabanatuan City look promising.

CHED held their RAISE 2026 summit in Iloilo in February and signed a draft AI policy, but there's still no formal national AI policy for higher education. Each university is making its own rules. Ateneo released a GenAI policy in January 2025 with mandatory disclosure and penalties. DLSU has a GenAI policy starting this academic year. Mapua launched the country's first and only BS in AI Engineering. UST approved a Research Center for AI.

Filipino AI startups are building things the Ivy League isn't. GradeChum built an AI grading system for handwritten assignments that works in Tagalog, Bisaya, and Ilocano. That matters because most Filipino students in public schools don't write in English. Senti AI was the first Philippine firm with Google Cloud ML Specialization before getting acquired by Kollab. DLSU's Center for Language Technologies is doing Filipino NLP research. Thinking Machines raised 253 million pesos. These are solutions for problems that Silicon Valley isn't working on.

The issue that makes the Philippines different from the US is the BPO question.

The BPO industry employs about 1.5 million Filipinos and makes up 7-8% of GDP. AI voice agents are already handling customer service calls. Major BPO firms are switching from headcount pricing to outcome pricing, which directly incentivizes replacing people with AI. Industry estimates put 1.5 million jobs at risk. Hundreds of thousands of young Filipinos go into BPO work right after college or even during college.

If those entry-level BPO positions shrink, the value proposition of a Philippine college degree faces more pressure. It's the same pattern as US CS grads facing 7% unemployment, except here it's hitting an industry that entire families and regional economies depend on.

One advantage the Philippines has over the US is demographics. The US is hitting an enrollment cliff starting in 2026 with a projected 13% decline through 2041. Over 80 US nonprofit colleges closed or merged in the last 5 years. Over half of US private universities are running operating deficits. The Philippines has a young, growing population. That's a structural advantage if the education system can use it.

Philippine universities don't have Ivy League money. But the policy work is happening, the AI programs are being built, and Filipino startups are solving problems in local languages that no American company is going to solve for us. The challenge is making sure the gap in resources doesn't turn into a gap in outcomes, and figuring out what the BPO transition looks like for the next generation of graduates.

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My family only has a single tv in the household, a 65" LG C2 where we sit about 2 meters away from. we have this setup for 5 years now and we're very happy with it (connected to SVS sub and KEF bookshelf). We felt like we've been missing a lot of not having a TV in the bedroom as we just mostly watch in our phones or ipad. Unfortunately we dont have any space for another tv in there as we are also using it as baby room so my wife suggested buying a projector instead.

Bough a Horizon 20 Pro for ~1700 eur and i feel underwhelmed for the value vs cost. I first projected it to the ceiling and watched a few youtube videos and immediately got dizzy doing that. So now im projecting it to the wall, picture is ~65". I still feel dizzy because of rainbow effect I think. Am I just missing a projector screen? Our bedroom wall is primer white.

I'm thinking of returning it. Will a UST change my opinion about projectors?

update 4:

tested 1500+ torrents, RD is actively expanding their filters in real-time

update 3:

6 patterns that are 100% blocked with zero exceptions:

• [rartv] (26/26), -TORRENTGALAXY (17/17), -GalaxyTV (21/21), -FGT (16/16), -LOL (15/15), -KILLERS/-EPSiLON (22/22)

Near-100%: AMZN+WEBRip (98%), WEBRip+DDP (96%), DIMENSION (95%), BATV/GECKOS (95%), [TGx] (91%), YTS (90%)

update 2:

same anime episode (Ghost Concert EP6, uploaded today on Nyaa):

• [SubsPlease] Ghost Concert - missing Songs - 06 (1080p) -> OK
• GHOST CONCERT missing Songs S01E06 1080p CR WEB-DL -> BLOCKED
• [Trix] Ghost Concert: Missing Songs S01E06 [WEBRip 1080p AV1 Opus] -> BLOCKED

same content. the actual filenames inside the torrent are what gets checked.

same release group (DEMAND), different results depending on the specific torrent:

• 12 Monkeys S01E09 720p BluRay x264-DEMAND -> OK
• Mad Men S07E08 720p BluRay x264-DEMAND -> BLOCKED
• Grimm S04E18 720p BluRay x264-DEMAND -> BLOCKED

tested 700+ torrents across different source types:

Source	OK	Blocked	Block Rate
[rartv]	0	26	100%
AMZN WEBRip	1	49	98%
WEBRip + DDP	2	49	96%
YTS	2	17	90%
WEBRip + x264	4	32	89%
[rarbg]	3	10	80%
[eztv]	4	9	69%
AMZN WEBRip (no DDP)	11	21	66%
WEBRip (no AMZN)	10	18	64%
Erai-raws	3	6	67%
BluRay + x264 (no tracker tags)	22	25	53%
WEB-DL	27	13	32%
AMZN WEB-DL	25	12	32%
HDTV	25	12	32%
DVDRip	25	11	31%
WEBRip + H.264	30	8	21%
BluRay + DTS-HD	35	1	3%
REMUX	16	0	0%

update:

Keyword	OK	Blocked	Block Rate
[rartv]	0	16	100%
[rarbg]	0	3	100%
YTS	0	3	100%
[eztv]	0	5	100%
DSNP	0	3	100%
CR (Crunchyroll)	0	5	100%
Erai-raws	0	6	100%
WEBRip	5	51	91%
AMZN	22	40	65%
DVDRip	10	16	62%
x264	73	80	52%
WEB-DL	56	41	42%
HDTV	36	13	27%
BluRay	123	11	8%
DTS-HD	49	3	6%
AVC	73	1	1%
REMUX	28	0	0%
SubsPlease	5	0	0%

Source	OK	Blocked	Block Rate
WEBRip (no AMZN)	10	18	64%
AMZN WEBRip	11	21	66%
AMZN WEB-DL	25	12	32%
WEB-DL (no AMZN)	27	13	32%
HDTV	25	12	32%
DVDRip	25	11	31%
BluRay encode	32	5	14%
REMUX	35	1	3%

ran ~280 torrents against the RD API today to figure out whats going on with all the infringing_file errors. TL;DR: keyword matching on filenames, not actual copyright takedowns.

same episode, different filename, different result

same anime episode (Ghost Concert EP6, uploaded today on Nyaa):

• [SubsPlease] Ghost Concert - missing Songs - 06 (1080p) -> OK
• GHOST CONCERT missing Songs S01E06 1080p CR WEB-DL -> BLOCKED
• [Trix] Ghost Concert: Missing Songs S01E06 [WEBRip 1080p AV1 Opus] -> BLOCKED

same content. only the filename matters.

keywords that get you blocked

fresh torrents from Nyaa (uploaded hours ago):

Keyword	OK	Blocked
WEB-DL	0	8
WEBRip	0	3
CR (Crunchyroll)	0	5
AMZN	0	2
DSNP	0	2
BD / Remux	8	0
SubsPlease	5	0

if your filename has WEB-DL, WEBRip, AMZN, DSNP, or CR in it, blocked. BD Remux and fansub-style names pass fine.

bigger test (280 random torrents)

Source	Blocked
WEBRip	86%
DVDRip	62%
WEB-DL	41%
HDTV	17%
BluRay encode	10%
REMUX	0%

AMZN-tagged content specifically, 75% blocked.

some of the stuff getting blocked

• Late.Spring.1949.REMASTERED.1080p.BluRay.x264-JRP
• Popeye-Rodeo.Romeo.1946.1080p.BluRay.x264-REGRET
• Come.Next.Spring.1956.1080p.AMZN.WEBRip.DDP2.0.x264-SbR
• Carry.On.Spying.1964.1080p.AMZN.WEBRip.DDP2.0.x264-squalor
• Our.Planet.2019.S01E03.Jungles.2160p.NF.WEBRip.DDP5.1.x264-NTb
• GODZILLA The Series (1998-2000) - Complete Animated TV Series - 480p DVDRip x264
• One Piece S01E1161 1080p CR WEB-DL (uploaded today)
• Digimon Beatbreak S01E30 REPACK 1080p CR WEB-DL AAC2.0 H 264-VARYG (uploaded today)

a 1946 Popeye cartoon and a 1949 Ozu film are not getting DMCA'd. RD is just running a regex on filenames.

Working before:

- Full ADB shell over USB and Wi-Fi

- Root access via su (factory included?)

- adb push/pull, scrcpy, adb install are all working for me

- I used wireless ADB daily to sync ebooks and backup the device

After i upgraded:

- ADB detects the device and shows it as a connected device

- Every shell command returns: error: not support command

- adb push, adb pull, adb install, logcat are all blocked

- Even scrcpy can't push its server binary

It looks like the device has a custom restricted ADB daemon that rejects everything. From what I've found online, Viwoods intentionally locked down ADB and reportedly offered a custom tool to some users as a workaround. I've emailed their support at service@viwoods.com hopefully they respond soon.

Has anyone else run into this? Any workarounds? Is there a way to downgrade?