https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/07/us/canvas-hack-strands-college-students-f...
Canvas which thousands of colleges and local school districts use as hosting for a ton of class content has been hacked and shutdown. This includes VT which was supposed to have exams tomorrow, as of 8pm Friday exams are now scheduled for Sunday. For myself at UCF I don't have official confirmation of graduation now. Guitarman is going to be absolutely underwater.
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This is a nightmare.
Yea I could not imagine what would it be like if we weren't done with our final exams and class assignments. Do not envy yall this week. There will be no plan that makes everyone happy.
Canvas restored access this morning.
The amount of high profile projects built on single maintainer open-source code is significantly higher than it should be. Like half of Kubernetes clusters were using Ingress-NGINX and the maintainer got burnout and just walked away from it last year.
And one of those large boxes is crowdstrike, or some other massive service that can take down 50% of the internet.
Another of those massive boxes is a single data center in Virginia.
No no no, they are in multiple data centers... that are 100 meters from each other and on the same power grid and have their internet connections run together until it splits in their adjacent parking lots.
Ah.