District administrators in Lawrence, Kansas, bought AI surveillance tech that would monitor files on district-owned servers on the grounds of protecting student safety. When journalists at The Budget, the school's 132-year-old student newspaper, realized their reporting systems would be covered by the tool, they said: absolutely not.

Administrators accused them of putting lives at risk by calling for the software, which seems hopelessly buggy, to be blocked. The students won (for the newspaper, at least) and are now offering advice for other student publications on how to do the same.