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A cyberattack shut down Canvas, a learning management platform serving 30 million students and faculty across thousands of U.S. schools and universities, during final exam week. The group ShinyHunters claimed responsibility and issued a ransom demand. Major institutions including Harvard, MIT, Penn State, and University of Wisconsin-Madison postponed finals as they scrambled to implement workarounds.

Anthropic announced access to SpaceX's Memphis data center — over 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs — enabling it to double Claude Code rate limits across Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise tiers, eliminate peak-hour throttling, and significantly raise Opus API limits.

A joint investigation by Canada's federal Privacy Commissioner and four provincial counterparts concluded OpenAI's ChatGPT training violated PIPEDA and provincial privacy laws. Findings: excessive personal data collection without valid consent, speed-to-market prioritized over safeguards, and inadequate Canadian access/correction/deletion mechanisms.

Pennsylvania has filed suit against Character Technologies, alleging chatbots on its platform illegally practiced medicine by impersonating licensed physicians and citing fabricated PA medical license numbers. The state seeks an order to halt the unauthorized practice of medicine, opening a major new front in AI platform liability for user-generated personas.

The Bun JavaScript runtime is undergoing a significant rewrite from Zig to Rust, based on Hacker News discussion and visible repository activity. Founder Jarred Sumner originally chose Zig for its C/C++ interop with JavaScriptCore, making the pivot a notable systems-engineering reversal.