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Submission + - Canvas hacked and down (bleepingcomputer.com)

tphb writes: In the middle of final's season, Instructure Canvas, the widely used learning management system for thousands of schools and universities such as Harvard, Colorado, and Georgia tech has been hacked and is currently down. Per a report from Bleeping Computer, the company reported a breach on May 1. Today, school landing pages were replaced by a message from the hacking consortium ShinyHunters claiming that they would release the data by May 12th unless a ransom is paid. Shortly thereafter all school landing sites went offline for "maintenance".

Comment Interesting, but not much of a threat (Score 1, Insightful) 96

It is an interesting paper and it is clever. But the threat of someone knowing my vehicle tire pressure (and thereby inferring weight) etc. is not something I'd worry about. After all, one could discretely check the tire pressure of my parked car without me knowing. And from the tread pattern, could tell a lot about driving habits. And if they wanted to track my vehicle around town, they can look at the license plate.

In other words, this can already be easily ascertained. But still cool paper. I don't think auto manufacturers will be moving to encrypted tire sensors anytime soon.

Comment That's not the Efficient Market Theory (Score 5, Insightful) 57

EMT does not mean the market is always "rational". It states, roughly, that there is no consistently risk-adjusted _profitable_ way to predict market movements. Within EMT, there are strong forms (never possible) and weak forms (possible with insider information).

But this weeks movements in the stock market in no way disproves market efficiency or the wisdom of passive/index investing. To the contrary, I haven't seen any geniuses pop up saying "I told you last week that this was going to happen, and I made a ton of money shorting NVDA".

Comment First AI Now This (Score 1) 177

They added AI to their Logi Tune software not long ago. After some backlash, they made it able to be disabled, and not run in the background all the time. But subscription mice are the second step in the wrong direction. I've used Logitech mice since 1991, but I think I'll be looking somewhere else next time.

Comment Great: it doesn't work, so add AI (Score 4, Informative) 104

The problem with Microsoft search isn't a lack of AI. The problem is it doesn't work. It does not effectively search your hard disk, instead trying to pull in stupid web results that are irrelevant.

Everything (voidtools.com) fixes what's broken in Windows search and is fast, lightweight, and simple. And doesn't need "AI"

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