Instructure confirmed paying ShinyHunters to delete stolen data and halt extortion Agreement included digital “shred logs” and covered all impacted customers Amount paid undisclosed; law enforcement warns ransom payments fund crime and don’t guarantee safety Instructure has confirmed it paid ShinyHunters their ransomware demand in exchange for deleting the data and not targeting its customers…

Spotify has launched its new Your Party of the Year(s) mobile experience to celebrate its 20th anniversary It shows you data from across your entire Spotify journey, starting from the first day you joined This includes your most-streamed artist, the total number of streamed songs, and more A few weeks back Spotify commemorated its 20th…

Across the globe, the rapid deployment of AI infrastructure is running up against physical limits. Rather than technology, AI data centers currently face constraints caused by access to power, water for cooling, and delays in receiving building permit approvals that in some cases now stretch for seven years. Sean McDevitt Social Links Navigation Partner at…

As vehicles become increasingly software-defined, many OEMs default to open-source solutions for their embedded software stacks. Open source promises flexibility, rapid prototyping, and cost efficiency. But in the context of always-on, safety-critical software-defined vehicle (SDV) platforms, these perceived benefits often come with significant risks. Bernd Niedermeier Social Links Navigation Leads Automotive Market Development at Tuxera….

If you’re an APAC resident and you’ve found Google services intermittently glitchy all afternoon, it isn’t just you — thousands of users have flocked to outage-tracking sites like Downdetector and IsDown.app to report problems with the search giant, starting around 5:30am BST / 12:30am EDT / 2:30pm AEST on May 12. Downdetector received as many…

Anthropic is looking at whether decades of dystopian science fiction may be influencing how AI models behave The debate has sparked backlash and jokes online Researchers say the issue highlights how LLMs absorb recurring fears and behavioral patterns For years, science fiction has warned humanity about artificial intelligence going off the rails. Killer computers, manipulative…

Chinese scientists developed a water battery capable of surviving 120,000 charging cycles reliably Neutral electrolytes prevented corrosion that usually destroys aqueous batteries over time The battery reportedly lasts centuries under normal grid storage operating conditions Scientists from the City University of Hong Kong and Southern University of Science and Technology have developed a new type…

Attackers typosquatted an OpenAI repo on HuggingFace, distributing an infostealer disguised as a “privacy filter” model The malware disabled SSL checks, escalated privileges, and deployed the sefirah payload to steal credentials, crypto wallets, and system data The fake repo hit 244K downloads and briefly topped HuggingFace rankings before removal, with other linked malicious repos also…

Looking for a different day? A new Quordle puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing ‘today’s game’ while others are playing ‘yesterday’s’. If you’re looking for Monday’s puzzle instead then click here: Quordle hints and answers for Monday, May 11 (game #1568). Quordle…

Looking for a different day? A new NYT Connections puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing ‘today’s game’ while others are playing ‘yesterday’s’. If you’re looking for Monday’s puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Monday, May 11 (game…