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Thousands of students and teachers across the United States lost access to their coursework Thursday after hackers known as ShinyHunters breached Instructure, forcing the company to shut down its widely used Canvas platform. It's a stark reminder that ransomware has found a new and particularly disruptive target in education technology, where downtime isn't just an inconvenience — it's a crisis.
On a lighter but no less consequential note, AMD CTO Mark Papermaster sat down at the HumanX conference to talk through how his company is thinking about the full spectrum of AI workloads, from the heavy lifting of model training to the nimbler demands of real-time inference. What made the conversation interesting was the paradox at its center — AI agents are consuming enormous amounts of compute while simultaneously helping AMD design the next generation of chips faster.
And in the crypto space, markets pulled back after United States forces struck Iranian targets, with bitcoin slipping from eighty-one thousand five hundred dollars to around seventy-nine thousand. Meanwhile, futures markets recorded their sixty-seventh consecutive day of negative funding rates — the longest such streak in a decade, according to K thirty-three Research. Geopolitics, it turns out, still moves markets faster than any algorithm.
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