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Canvas Breach Disrupts Schools & Colleges Nationwide
An ongoing data extortion attack targeting the widely-used education technology platform Canvas disrupted classes and coursework at school districts and universities across the United States today, after a cybercrime group defaced the service's login page with a ransom demand that threatened to leak data from 275 million students and faculty across nearly 9,000 educational institutions.
Mojo 1.0 Beta
243 points, 164 comments on Hacker News
The cuda-oxide Book
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cuda-oxide: cuda-oxide is an experimental Rust-to-CUDA compiler
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GPT-5.5 Price Increase: What It Costs
Article URL: https://openrouter.ai/announcements/gpt55-cost-analysis Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48057209 Points: 147 # Comments: 38
Copy Fail 2: Electric Boogaloo
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Komai: a fine Matrix chat app you can get to love
Article URL: https://etke.cc/blog/introducing-komai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48056804 Points: 30 # Comments: 11
GNU IFUNC is the real culprit behind CVE-2024-3094
Article URL: https://github.com/robertdfrench/ifuncd-up Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48056749 Points: 34 # Comments: 11
The people preserving the scientific practice of bird banding
7 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
Gambling ads on social media reach more than twice as many men as women: study
Article URL: https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/gambling-ads-on-social-media-reach-more-than-twice-as-many-men-as-women Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48056359 Points: 27 # Comments: 8
Plasticity and language in the anaesthetized human hippocampus
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10448-0 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48056268 Points: 70 # Comments: 26
Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit
Article URL: https://xeiaso.net/blog/2026/abstain-from-install/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48056227 Points: 242 # Comments: 107
Improving token efficiency in GitHub Agentic Workflows
Agentic workflows that run on every pull request can quietly accumulate large API bills. Here's how we instrumented our own production workflows, found the inefficiencies, and built agents to fix them. The post Improving token efficiency in GitHub Agentic Workflows appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Nonprofit hospitals spend billions on consultants with no clear effect
Article URL: https://www.uchicagomedicine.org/forefront/research-and-discoveries-articles/nonprofit-hospitals-spend-billions-on-management-consultants Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48056158 Points: 95 # Comments: 30
Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data
https://thetech.com/2026/05/07/canvas-breach-26 https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/07/hackers-deface-school-logi... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48055913 Points: 365 # Comments: 263
Why Don’t Lowercase Letters Come Right After Uppercase Letters in ASCII?
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Cloudflare lays off 1,100 employees
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Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce
https://blog.cloudflare.com/building-for-the-future/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48054423 Points: 330 # Comments: 205
Two Home Affairs officials suspended after AI 'hallucinations' found
Article URL: https://www.citizen.co.za/news/home-affairs-officials-suspended-ai-hallucinations/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48053842 Points: 63 # Comments: 17
Mozilla says 271 vulnerabilities found by Mythos and "almost no false positives"
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/05/mozilla-says-271-vulnerabilities-found-by-mythos-have-almost-no-false-positives/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48053816 Points: 39 # Comments: 9
Creating for a niche
Article URL: https://www.davesnider.com/posts/working-in-a-niche Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48053770 Points: 11 # Comments: 0
Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE
Article URL: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/05/07/8 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48053623 Points: 240 # Comments: 105
Affordances of a screenless writing interface
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Colored Shadow Penumbra
Article URL: https://chosker.github.io/blog/colored-shadow-penumbra Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48053435 Points: 25 # Comments: 10
Agent pull requests are everywhere. Here’s how to review them.
A practical guide to reviewing agent-generated pull requests: what to look for, where issues hide, and how to catch technical debt before it ships. The post Agent pull requests are everywhere. Here’s how to review them. appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
A lost ancient script reveals how writing as we know it began
22 points, 3 comments on Hacker News
Ivanti EPMM CVE-2026-6973 RCE Under Active Exploitation Grants Admin-Level Access
Ivanti is warning that a new security flaw impacting Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) has been explored in limited attacks in the wild. The high-severity vulnerability, CVE-2026-6973 (CVSS score: 7.2), is a case of improper input validation affecting EPMM before versions 12.6.1.1, 12.7.0.1, and 12.8.0.1. It allows "a remotely authenticated user with administrative access to achieve remote code
Natural Language Autoencoders: Turning Claude's Thoughts into Text
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/research/natural-language-autoencoders Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48052537 Points: 135 # Comments: 41
PCPJack Credential Stealer Exploits 5 CVEs to Spread Worm-Like Across Cloud Systems
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new credential theft framework dubbed PCPJack that targets exposed cloud infrastructure and ousts any artifacts linked to TeamPCP from the environments. "The toolset harvests credentials from cloud, container, developer, productivity, and financial services, then exfiltrates the data through attacker-controlled infrastructure while attempting
Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard
Article URL: https://www.elciudadano.com/en/brazils-pix-payment-system-faces-pressure-from-visa-and-mastercard/04/04/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48052371 Points: 118 # Comments: 77
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