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When Leah Harris started her freshman year at San Diego State University, she was surprised to see how many students used artificial intelligence in their schoolwork.

“Everyone I know uses it,” she said. “I’d get in trouble in high school for that.”

New data show how widespread the use of AI is on California’s college campuses — and how mixed students’ feelings are about it.

More than 94,000 students, faculty and staff across the California State University (CSU) system filled out a survey about AI last fall. Other local universities, including UC San Diego and City, Mesa and Miramar Colleges, also participated.

Nearly 90% of student respondents at San Diego-based schools said they use ChatGPT. At the same time, 8 in 10 said they worry about AI negatively affecting creativity, privacy, the environment and job security.

Most San Diego students agreed AI will become an essential part of most professions. But just one in three respondents said their professors teach them how to use AI effectively.

https://www.calstate.edu/impact-of-the-csu/technology/ai-empowered-csu/Documents/csu-ahead-of-the-curve.pdf

https://www.calstate.edu/csu-system/news/Pages/CSU-AI-Powered-Initiative.aspx

The rate of inflation rose to 3.3 percent year-on-year in March 2026, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). By comparison, this same consumer price index (CPI) was 2.4 percent year-on-year a month earlier.

Gasoline prices surged by 21.2 percent between February and March 2026 -- the largest monthly increase since the government began publishing a related index in 1967, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) said.

Another report:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cde56g80xp5o

California ISO's draft recommends 38 upgrades and about $7B to bring offshore wind and out‑of‑state power onto the grid; public comment runs through April 29, 2026.

https://www.caiso.com/notices/2025-2026-transmission-planning-process-draft-transmission-plan-posting-date-changed-to-4-7-26-meeting-rescheduled-to-4-15-26

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/04/09/california-grid-manager-foresees-7b-in-upgrades-in-next-decade

District leaders have advertised a fix to the plumbing of the School of Creative and Performing Arts in three successive bond measures dating back to 2012. Still, the school is facing leaks and water shutoffs and a fix is years away.

April 10, 2026, by Jakob McWhinney

Hello,

I recently enrolled into sdsu’s MBA program and I was wondering if the 43,000 cost of attendance was accurate, I was able to get a good amount of aid to shave off 29,000 for the first year. Would it be hard to find a room for 800 - 900?

Los Angeles-based retail and office developer Primestor has bought the 32-acre mall for $86 million. 

The company, which specializes in serving majority-Latino communities, has been making cosmetic changes and conducting market research. 

Now, the company is finalizing plans for a major overhaul, said mall marketing manager Patricia Sobue. 

A major feature of the new design will be a full-service grocery store that will help fill a need on Chula Vista’s west side, where grocery offerings are sparse.

At the site of the former Sears, construction crews are building roughly 700 new medium-density homes for sale, some priced below $600,000 to attract entry-level homebuyers.

April 9, 2026, by Jim Hinch

A research team has, for the first time in the world, elucidated the microscopic mechanism by which quantum order is lost and collapses in "open quantum environments" existing in nature. Since perfectly isolated quantum systems cannot exist in reality, this study is expected to provide a decisive breakthrough in bridging the gap between ideal quantum theory and quantum technologies that must operate in real-world environments. The study is published in the journal Advanced Science. The study was led by Professor JaeDong Lee of the Department of Physics and Chemistry at DGIST.

Publication details

Gimin Bae et al, Superradiance and Broadband Emission Driving Fast Electron Dephasing in Open Quantum Systems, Advanced Science (2026). DOI: 10.1002/advs.202522729

Byrd was the last member of the 2023 Final 4 team who was still at SDSU. I once met him on campus.

San Diego State transfer guard Miles Byrd announced his commitment to Providence on Thursday, choosing the Friars over Kentucky Basketball and several other high-major programs.

Byrd heads across the country to join the Friars under their new coach, Bryan Hodgson, who was hired from the University of South Florida after Kim English was fired following a 15-18 season that included a 7-13 finish in the Big East.

April 9, 2026

https://www.on3.com/news/san-diego-state-transfer-guard-miles-byrd-commits-to-providence

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Let’s take a trip down memory lane, all the way back to March 11 at Snapdragon Stadium.

It was the 16th minute of the Concacaf Champions Cup game between San Diego FC and back-to-back Liga MX champion Toluca FC. San Diego already trailed 1-0 and was down a man after a red card to forward Marcus Ingvartsen.

San Diego FC answered with a valiant and unforgettable effort to win 3-2, stoking aspirations for a magical run in the prestigious tournament that could even propel the club to another postseason push for the MLS Cup.

Since then, the team has given up 12 goals in four matches without a win.

The streak started with a heartbreaking 3-3 road draw on March 14 thanks to a hat-trick and last-minute goal by FC Dallas forward Petar Musa.

That was followed by a 4-0 blowout loss to Toluca four days later as Los Diablos Rojos dominated the entire second half – and eliminated SDFC from the Champions Cup.

After a 2-2 draw on March 27 against Salt Lake, the team fell 3-0 to San Jose on Saturday. It’s understandable if that defeat left even the most ardent supporters, some of whom made the trip to PayPal Park, wondering if SDFC can regain the fire that made it a contender for the title in its rookie season last year.

“No silver linings,” said head coach Mikey Varas. “We started the game really poorly with individual errors that lead to goals conceded and a red card.” 

While it may be easy to criticize the goalkeeping over the past few weeks, a more objective analysis shows that it is the backline and midfield that are most to blame for the team’s current predicament.

It’s next to impossible for even the best goalkeepers to consistently stop near point-blank shots or penalty kicks, especially when teammates create free counterattacks for the opponents thanks to unforced turnovers.

“Too many guys not executing the way they should be executing and too many young guys who are playing a little bit naive right now. We have to improve from that,” Varas added. 

Despite it still being early in the season, the upcoming home game on Saturday against a Minnesota United side coming off a hard-fought road win against the LA Galaxy almost feels like a must-win.

The club also could use some momentum as it goes on a mini two-match road trip through Salt Lake City and Houston starting April 18, before returning to Snapdragon Stadium on April 25 to face the Portland Timbers.

April 8, 2026, by Hector Trujillo

Established in 1951, and renamed in 2023 to honor its Greenlandic heritage, Pituffik serves as the US military’s northernmost base at a strategic location at the top of the world.

April 8, 2026

https://sandiego.hylandcloud.com/211agendaonlinecouncil/Documents/ViewDocument/O-2026-28%20COR.%20COPY%202.pdf.pdf?meetingId=6930&documentType=Agenda&itemId=257589&publishId=1081164&isSection=false

(17 pages)

The Rowhammer technique, a hardware vulnerability known for more than a decade, works by repeatedly accessing — or “hammering” — a specific row of DRAM memory cells. This rapid activity can generate electrical interference that causes bit flips in neighboring memory regions.

Over the years, researchers have shown that Rowhammer attacks can be exploited to enable privilege escalation, unauthorized data access, data corruption, and breaches of memory isolation in virtualized environments.

Until recently, however, such attacks had been limited to CPUs and traditional CPU-based memory. With GPUs playing an increasingly critical role in AI and machine learning workloads, a team from the University of Toronto successfully demonstrated a Rowhammer-style attack targeting the memory of an Nvidia GPU. 

They showed how the attack, dubbed GPUHammer, can induce bit flips that significantly degrade the accuracy of deep neural network (DNN) models, including ImageNet-trained models used for visual object recognition. 

The researchers behind GPUHammer, assisted by several others, have now demonstrated that GPU Rowhammer attacks can be used for more than just disruption.

Their new attack, named GPUBreach, shows that attackers can induce GDDR6 bit flips that corrupt GPU page tables, enabling arbitrary read-write access to memory. 

In combination with new memory-safety bugs in Nvidia drivers, the researchers showed that GPUBreach can be used for CPU-side privilege escalation, ultimately achieving root shell privileges and full system compromise.

The attack can pose a significant threat to cloud environments, where multiple users share the same physical GPU. 

Reported in April 2026

I think this needs more attention.

Some SDSU classes don’t allow even ONE excused absence for being sick, and it’s creating a situation where students feel forced to show up anyway just to protect their grade.

At this point, it’s not just unfair, it’s creating a real public health risk on campus.

When students are penalized for staying home, they are effectively pushed to attend class while sick. That leads to more people getting exposed, more students getting sick, and the cycle continuing.

This isn’t hypothetical. Before Spring break, I got sick after a classmate came to class with a cold because they were afraid of losing attendance points.

What makes this worse is that SDSU Student Health Services explicitly says they do NOT provide medical excuses for short-term illness, and that professors decide how absences are handled.

So students are stuck in a system where:

• You can’t realistically get documentation for a short illness
• But you may still be penalized if you miss

That contradiction leaves students with one real option: show up sick.

Not every illness requires a doctor visit. Sometimes you wake up with a migraine, you’re throwing up, you have a cold that could even be COVID, or you just feel awful for a day, and the responsible thing to do is to stay home.

But current policies don’t support that. Instead, they create conditions where illness spreads more easily across campus.

We’re adults, and we’re paying to be here. We should be able to make responsible decisions about our health without being penalized for it.

I’m considering reaching out to SDSU administration about this, but I want to know if this is just a me thing or if others are experiencing it too.

A policy that punishes students for staying home sick is a policy that spreads illness.

If this has happened in your classes, can you share your experience?

Quantum mechanics tells us that a particle can never be perfectly still. But how precisely can it be oriented? A research team at the University of Vienna, together with colleagues at TU Wien and Ulm University, has now cooled the rotational motion of a levitated silica nanorotor all the way to its quantum ground state—in two orientational degrees of freedom.

Reporting in Nature Physics, they show how optical cooling confines the nanoparticle's orientation to within the bounds of quantum zero-point fluctuations, the unavoidable orientational uncertainty imposed by Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. Such quantum-limited alignment is an important milestone towards rotational matter-wave interferometry and ultra-sensitive quantum torque sensing.

Cooling to the quantum ground state had already been achieved for levitated nanoparticles before, for instance by the team of Uroš Delić and Markus Aspelmeyer at the University of Vienna. Cooling the rotational motion has proven more challenging and has so far only been achieved in one dimension by the team of Lukas Novotny at the ETH Zürich.

Publication details

Stephan Troyer et al, Quantum ground-state cooling of two librational modes of a nanorotor, Nature Physics (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s41567-026-03219-1