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'You deserved more': Instructure CEO apologizes following Canvas hack, admits company paid hackers to get stolen data back

Instructure CEO confirmed the company paid ShinyHunters to delete the stolen files.

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Rekor Systems Q1 Earnings Call Highlights

Rekor Systems (NASDAQ:REKR) said its first-quarter results reflected early benefits from a broad cost-reduction effort, while management pointed to stronger margins, higher recurring revenue and a path toward improved EBITDA performance later in 2026. Chief Executive Officer Robert Berman told inve

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Can plants hear? Latest research offers new insights

Researchers at MIT have suggested that rice seeds can hear the sound of rain, according to a new study. MIT calls it “the first direct evidence that plant seeds and seedlings can sense sounds in nature”. Perhaps surprisingly, the effects reported in this new study are not as radical as…

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MIT researchers revive 40-year-old triangular zipper concept now made possible by 3D printing, creates shape-shifting robots and deployable structures — 3D-printed 'Y-Zipper' turns floppy tentacles into rigid beams in seconds

MIT researchers have developed a 3D-printed three-sided zipper that rapidly transforms floppy structures into rigid beams, robotic limbs, and deployable frameworks using triangular geometry.

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I knew my writing students were using AI. Their confessions led to a powerful teaching moment

The problem wasn’t just the perfectly polished, yet mediocre prose. It’s what’s lost when we surrender the struggle to translate thought into words

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Top universities among victims named in Canvas data breach - MIT, Oxford and more all hit

ShinyHunters is increasing the heat on Instructure by listing all of the potential victims of the Canvas breach.

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How an exoplanet odd couple survived by traveling in from the cold together

By probing the atmosphere of a mini-Neptune exoplanet, the James Webb Space Telescope has found that it formed much farther from its star than it is today, possibly explaining the origin of many other mini-Neptunes in the process.

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3D-printed Y-zipper turns from flexible to hard in less time than it takes to zip your fly

Researchers took a 40-year-old design and applied some software and 3D printing to bring the Y-zipper to life

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'How else are people going to learn to do the job': MIT AI expert warns against automating Gen Z entry-level jobs

AI might be better than your entry-level workers for productivity today, but it could spell disaster for future employment.

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Meet Apurva Shrivastava: Indian-origin engineer who turned a ‘missed call’ idea into $1 billion AI startup

In the high-stakes world of Silicon Valley, where billions are poured into chatbots and generative art, Apurva Shrivastava and Tyson Chen decided to look where few tech founders go: the local HVAC company. That decision has officially paid off. Their startup, 'Avoca', has reached a $1 billion valuation following a…

The Times of India

MIT AI expert warns automating Gen Z entry-level jobs could backfire—and cost companies their future workforce

CEOs who cut entry-level jobs risk long-term fallout, warns MIT’s Andrew McAfee—as IBM and Salesforce double down on Gen Z talent.

Fortune

Man who killed Brown students, MIT professor targeted symbolic victims tied to grievances, FBI says

Federal investigators say the man who carried out a mass shooting at Brown University and later killed a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor did not act randomly, but targeted places and people that held symbolic meaning tied to his perceived failures

The Independent UK

Autonomous Driving Tech Is Power-Hungry. Can Modern EVs Really Handle It?

The math works out for fleets, for now. But if you want personal autonomy, expect to burn up a lot of battery.

InsideEVs

How a chance encounter in Texas sparked a $1 billion Kleiner Perkins-backed AI startup

Avoca, founded by two MIT grads, brings Silicon Valley tech to trades like plumbing, roofing, and HVAC.

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Missing Scientists Mystery Hits Deadline Day as FBI and Four Agencies Must Brief Congress Today

The House Oversight Committee's 27 April deadline forces the FBI, NASA, the Energy Department, and the Pentagon to brief Congress on missing scientists. The Pentagon already states no active probes exist.

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Forget your Apple Watch: 'self-powering', health-sensing fabrics that draw energy from our bodies are being worked on as the next evolution of wearables

New ’smart textiles’ could become the future of wearables for exercise and clinical health monitoring.

The Independent UK

12 US scientists have gone missing or died. The mystery has become the talk - and worry - of Washington

The 12 scientists who have died or gone missing all appeared to have ties to nuclear or space programs and, in some cases, classified projects. Rhian Lubin delves into the cases

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"Push them to the limit": MIT researchers almost double SSD performance 'for free' but only for data centers

MIT software boosts SSD speeds by shifting data between drives in large storage clusters, but it's only for use in data centers.

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Cursor’s 25-year-old CEO is a former Google intern who just inked a $60 billion deal with SpaceX

From Google intern at 18 to a billionaire at 25, Cursor CEO Michael Truell’s rise is one of Silicon Valley’s fastest.

International Business Times

The Real AI Risk Isn't Job Loss — It's Poor Change Management Causing Wasted Investment

95% of internal AI pilot programs fail to boost revenue or productivity. That number comes from MIT research across 150 leadership interviews and 300 public AI deployments. The problem is not the models. It is the integration.

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"The way we move light": Tiny optical chips smaller than a grain of salt could save data centers billions

New beam-steering chip smaller than a grain of salt could cut hardware demands in quantum computing and high-performance data centers.

The Independent UK

Massachusetts is dumping sewage into waterways. Grassroots organizations are fighting back

Environmental organizations in Massachusetts are urging water officials to keep sewage out of waterways in several Boston-area communities by committing to a more modern sewer system with separate pipes for waste and storm runoff

International Business Times UK

The 'Sinister' Pattern: How 'Too Coincidental' Deaths of 11 Nuclear Scientists Triggered a Multi-Agency House Probe

House Oversight Chair James Comer has launched a probe into the mysterious deaths and disappearances of 11 US scientists linked to classified nuclear and space research.

Fortune

Thousands of CEOs admit AI had no impact on employment or productivity—and it has economists resurrecting a paradox from 40 years ago

In the 1980s, economist Robert Solow made an observation that reminded economists of today’s AI boom: “You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.”

At last! Blood sugar measurements could be coming to your Apple Watch

Light just got used to measure blood glucose, for real.

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