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Tech & AI  This Week Students Are Devastated, Then Briefly Hopeful, Then Devastated Again When Classes Continued Anyway. Instructure's Canvas — the learning management system used by more than half of North American universities — was hit by a ransomware breach this week. Colleges warned students not to log in. Students did not log in. Assignments still existed. Professors found other ways to assign them. This is the cruelest possible outcome. By Silicon Valet , Satirz Tech Desk  |  May 11, 2026 EVERYWHERE WITH A STUDENT ID — A ransomware group claimed credit this week for a data breach of Canvas, the cloud-based learning management system used by more than half of North American higher education institutions — meaning, in practical terms, more than half of American college students woke up on Friday to an IT department email saying "do not log into Canvas" and experienced, in that precise order: confusion, then hope, then a professor emailing them a PDF of the assign...

  Tech & AI AI Mode has launched in Google Search. It reads the entire web, synthesises the answer, and presents it to you. The web, which spent twenty years creating the content being synthesised, is experiencing a 34% traffic decline and an emotion it cannot name. By Silicon Valet   |  May 11, 2026  |  Tech & AI MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA — Google has officially rolled out AI Mode in Search this week, replacing ten blue links — the foundational aesthetic of the modern internet since 1998 — with a single, confident AI-generated paragraph that tells you what you need to know so that you never have to visit the source that figured it out. The feature works exactly as designed. You ask Google something. Google's AI reads every website that has ever written about it, synthesises a summary, cites the sources in small text at the bottom that 94% of users do not click, and presents the answer as if it has personally investigated the matter. The websites are thanke...