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9–12 Monday, October 19, 2026

Grade 9-12: Character.AI's bankruptcy, Python 3.15, a 30-minute AI game & school cyberattacks

Data PrivacyProgrammingGame DevelopmentCybersecurity

About This Episode

This week on TechCheck for grades 9–12: Character.AI filed for Chapter 11 to sell its assets, with Disney's $20M stalking-horse bid for a license to some IP and experts asking what happens to users' chats; Python 3.15 shipped with UTF-8 by default, explicit lazy imports, a faster experimental JIT and the whatsnewt text adventure; Yuji Horii built a playable mystery game by instructing AI in about 30 minutes; Check Point's data put education at 6,656 attacks per organization per week as ransomware hit Japan; and Technovation's 2026 champions, led by Kazakhstan's SAMRUQ.AI. CS-, debate- and career-ready. IN THIS EPISODE

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Teach with this episode

A reusable 9–12 worksheet and a copy-your-own Google Form. Same template every week, so students learn the routine once.