@quagga 🫂

New, from me: Canvas Breach Disrupts Schools and 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."

"Canvas parent firm Instructure [NYSE:INST] responded to today's defacement attacks by disabling the platform, which is used by thousands of schools, universities and businesses to manage coursework and assignments, and to communicate with students."

Lots more here:

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/05/canvas-breach-disrupts-schools-colleges-nationwide/

#canvas #breach #shinyhunters #instructure

I have basically mildly positive feelings about Gemini Nano being available in Chrome. I don't use Chrome, but lots of stuff should be done on-device, not off. That's a win.

If "software shouldn't have features i don't like" is the argument you're actually making, that's not really a good argument. Even when the feature is an LLM model.

"Chrome is getting big and bloated and we can do better” is absolutely a good argument you can make.

And then the real kicker: Google pushing the web platform around through dominance is just the real ick here. It's the same sort of thing monopoly power enables. Companies that own verticals in the economy or a product market can dictate rather than negotiate. This is, in general, bad. Google does this, not because the ideas its employees put forward are good, but because they work out to be in Google's interests. And those interests can run counter to the rest of the world.

That's what we have to push back on.

The latest version of #GrapheneOS is blowing me away. Everything I want, including wireless #AndroidAuto works (this is important on motorcycles).

All my tap cards work. Aside from banks but fuck that. Only fools send their payment info to Google.

Good job team!

Cyberattack hits Canvas system used by thousands of schools as finals loom
https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/cyberattack-hits-canvas-system-used-by-thousands-of-schools-as-finals-loom/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into World @world-CTVNews

May the 4th Be With You!

#MayThe4th

The #Fediverse is the real deal.

https://matduggan.com/boy-i-was-wrong-about-the-fediverse/

Spain asks the European Commission to ensure that US sanctions against Francesca Albanese and judges and prosecutors of the International Criminal Court have no effect in the EU

#stopGenocide

https://www.lamoncloa.gob.es/lang/en/presidente/news/Paginas/2026/20260506-eu-blocking-statute.aspx

My friend shot this double rainbow above the Hungarian parliament today. Feels quite prophetic with the anti-LGBT govt defeated 😂

The latest genius Republican move to steal the election: run a #MAGA as a Democratic candidate for Senate in Nebraska! The Dems are actually supporting an independent, which has the Republicans so scared of losing that seat they are pulling this absolutely farcical stunt.

Y'all, they know what their plan is to steal 2026, and they know they are going down in flames.

https://flatwaterfreepress.org/a-trump-voting-nebraska-pastor-is-running-for-senate-as-a-democrat-he-insists-its-in-good-faith/

#Nebraska #Republicans #Democrats

Absolutely brilliant intervention in Paramount Warner deal. @freedom.press@bsky.brid.gy & @rsf.org@bsky.brid.gy taking shareholder action to scrutinize documentation on whether David Ellison plans to degrade journalism at CNN, reviewing his destruction of CBS. www.status.news/p/paramount-...

"We are currently experiencing a disruption to #Canvas [Learning Management System] related to an ongoing security incident affecting the vendor."

DID YOU KNOW THAT IT IS FINALS WEEK?

"Out of an abundance of caution, users should avoid interacting with or clicking on any links, messages, or content that may be posted by threat actors or appear suspicious during this event."

GOLLY Y'ALL FUCKED THIS UP REAL GOOD

"We understand the importance of Canvas to teaching and learning activities and recognize the disruption this may cause."

HO, HO, YOU DIPSHITS UNDERSTAND AND/OR RECOGNIZE NOTHING

I AM OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER BEFORE EVERYTHING HAD BEEN OUTSOURCED AND WE HAD STAFF RIGHT ON CAMPUS ON CALL 24/7 AND WE WERE NOT HELPLESS LIKE NOW BUT YOU WOULD NOT LISTEN RARRRR A;LSKJASDHFWOOWIEH'ASDKLDAFS1234JKLASDF

@Guillotine_Jones I’m an atheist. But I do appreciate your kind sentiment. I’ll settle for a reward of helping all of us escape fascism.

ugh my heart rate is elevated and the pain is so bad, i feel burning aches like everywhere and i have a bad headache. sigh. CBD/G doesn’t do anything either. so. just gonna have to rest and take my gabapentin & hope for the best ig

DOGE’s Termination of Humanities Grants Is Ruled Unconstitutional
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/arts/neh-grants-lawsuit-doge.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Arts @arts-newyorktimes

@jpm

What did the wood fairies told you this does?

Other than. I'm about 3 months behind.

Dal 1945 la Carta delle Nazioni Unite sostituisce la guerra giusta delle Nazioni, dichiarata unilateralmente, con il peacekeeping multinazionale e multilaterale del consiglio di sicurezza ONU che decide per consenso e non a maggioranza, e va preceduto dalla valutazione di “misure non implicanti l'impiego della forza armata” (interruzione delle relazioni diplomatiche, economiche e delle comunicazioni ferroviarie, marittime, aeree, postali, telegrafiche, radio).

https://unipd-centrodirittiumani.it/storage/media/89/fc/90_03_285.pdf

RE: https://universeodon.com/@georgetakei/116535657473578228

i said it in 2020, have to say it again: #MAGA #oligarchy #EpsteinClass #GOP #Republicans are using #vaccines hesitancy, #COVID #flu and now #HantaVirus to wage biological warfare.

stop giving RFK Jr the benefit of the doubt. Trump chose him not to be Secretary of Health buf Secretary of #Eugenics.

RFK’s goal is to kill as many Americans as he can. this isn't speculation. the evidence is there. it is a statement of fact.

HEALTH CARE IS POLITICAL WARFARE
―Audre Lorde

#USpol #healthCare