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A House Homeland Security subcommittee said Friday it will hold the first congressional hearing on the global CrowdStrike outage later this month.

Why it matters: The hearing will be a bellwether for how much trust CrowdStrike has lost both in Washington and among its own customers.

Policymakers are preparing for two very different outcomes if former President Donald Trump wins a second term: A world where he overhauls the U.S. approach to defending against nation-state hacks — and another where he leaves everything exactly as it is.

Why it matters: The Republican presidential candidate has yet to present a detailed plan for how he'd approach key cyber issues like securing utilities or combatting Russian ransomware.

A Chinese influence operation of inauthentic social media accounts to spread anti-Western sentiment is using fake accounts posing as American citizens ahead of the 2024 election, a report released Tuesday found.

The big picture: Americans have been inundated by media manipulated by China, Russia and Iran in recent years attempting to deepen stateside divisions as the election approaches.

Nvidia the company sits at the heart of an AI revolution with the potential to transform or even destroy life as we know it. Nvidia the stock, meanwhile, has become a meme around which the get-rich-quick dreams of degenerate gamblers are increasingly coalescing.

Why it matters: No other stock offers Nvidia's combination of immediate name recognition, enormous volatility, unrivaled liquidity, and, of course, meme value.

As kids of all ages head back to school, educators are still struggling to spot students who are letting chatbots write their reports for them.

The big picture: Commercial AI text detection tools — even those claiming high accuracy — still have some big flaws.

Brazil's Supreme Court on Monday upheld a decision to ban Elon Musk's X nationwide, after the platform formerly known as Twitter refused to comply with orders by the country's top judge.

Why it matters: The unanimous ruling by the five justices comes as Musk accuses Brazil's top judge of acting as a "dictator" for suspending X in Latin America's largest nation over misinformation concerns and for failing to appoint a legal representative for the social media platform in the country.

Whether they're appearing on Capitol Hill or showing us how to make "magic candles," teachers on TikTok and Instagram are reaching students well beyond their classrooms — and we're all learning.

The big picture: About one-third of Gen Zers regularly scroll TikTok for news — that's up 255% since 2020, Axios' Kerry Flynn reports.

Axios Local's social team scoured their feeds to highlight a few teacher influencers who are educating and inspiring: