Linkblog - 2026-05-17

Week of May 11 - May 17, 2026

Use of artificial intelligence in the Ontario government

A report from Ontario’s auditor general.

Of the 400 AI websites that OPS staff accessed between April 2025 and August 2025, 244, or about 60%, were deemed unsafe and unsecured according to the security score given by Microsoft’s Defender cybersecurity tool.

Tags: AI, Ontario, via:Alessandro Corazza

Added: 2026-05-16 14:14

Removing the Modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 Hybrid

Modern cars are computers on wheels that send home nonstop telemetry about you. In this post I remove my 2024 RAV4 Hybrid

Saving this in case I ever need to do something similar in my 2024 Toyota RAV4 Hybrid…

Tags: via:Bill Fitzgerald, Toyota, RAV4, surveillance

Added: 2026-05-15 20:00

What Does AI Do? | AAUP

The economic and political problems of “cost disease” in education have created a powerful incentive for the adoption of AI.

Tags: AI, via:Audrey Watters, via:John Maxwell, higher education

Added: 2026-05-15 15:07

Security pros doubt Canvas attackers really deleted stolen student data

Other than Instructure execs - maybe?

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“The FBI says don’t pay,” Thompson told The Register. “But the operational reality at 3 a.m. during finals week or enrollment season can push institutions toward a very different calculation. Until that incentive structure changes, education is likely to remain unusually vulnerable to extortion pressure.”

Tags: Instructure, Canvas, cybersecurity

Added: 2026-05-15 12:23

Closeup old machine control hi-res stock photography and images - Alamy

Find the perfect closeup old machine control stock photo, image, vector, illustration or 360 image. Available for both RF and RM licensing.

Tags: photos

Added: 2026-05-14 21:49

Klack — Satisfying sound with every keystroke

Satisfying sound with every keystroke

This is dumb, and I’m enjoying it entirely too much.

Tags: macOS, app, keyboard, via:John Gruber

Added: 2026-05-14 15:52

Bubbles - blog directory

Independent blog posts, ranked by the community. Good stuff bubbles up. The rest pops.

Tags: via:Tyler Hellard, blogs, blogosphere

Added: 2026-05-14 15:01

The Canvas Hack Confirmed Some Professors’ Fears. It Likely Won’t Change Anything.

Posner said one of her students hoped the hack would serve as a call to action for universities to look more carefully at tech platforms. Another student, she recalled, questioned whether the hackers were really doing anything worse with personal data than what third-party vendors were already doing — the details of which aren’t known.

Tags: Chronical, person:Bryan Alexander, Canvas, Instructure, cybersecurity, LMS, edupunk, Reclaim

Added: 2026-05-14 10:12

Senate to vote on controversial update to Academic Integrity Policy – Martlet

If approved, the changes to the policy will be effective September 2026. If not, it will be the second time in two months that Senate voted against the updates.

Tags: academic integrity, UVictoria, via:Grant Potter, AI

Added: 2026-05-14 09:52

PHOTOS: The 2026 Conference on Postsecondary Learning and Teaching | News | University of Calgary

More than 400 educators attend three-day teaching and learning conference exploring the importance of human connection in an era of digital transformation

Tags: UCalgary, conference, photos

Added: 2026-05-14 09:43

How Higher Education Is Responding to the Canvas LMS Incident and Preparing for What’s Next | EDUCAUSE Review

A recent ransomware attack on Instructure’s Canvas LMS has raised concerns across the higher education community about cybersecurity, data privacy, th

Tags: EDUCAUSE, via:Yakut Gazi, Canvas, LMS, cybersecurity

Added: 2026-05-13 15:01

Why Teaching and Learning Centres Matter — Now More Than Ever – STLHE

Teaching and learning centres are not a luxury. They are among the most efficient, evidence-based investments postsecondary institutions can make to strengthen the quality of teaching and learning. If you lead or work in a TLC, continue to document your impact, share your stories, and make the evidence of your influence visible. If you are a faculty member: engage your TLC as a scholarly partner, share your stories of connection, and celebrate the transformative power of teaching. If you are an academic leader: don’t ask whether you can afford to sustain your TLC, but whether you can afford not to.

Tags: person:Natasha Kenny, person:Ann Braithwaite, STLHE, TLCs

Added: 2026-05-12 20:50

How are Canadian postsecondary students using generative AI today? — Academica Forum

Generative AI tools have become popular on postsecondary campuses across the country. In this article, Rachel and Candace discuss the results of a survey on how Canadian postsecondary students use and perceive generative AI tools.

Tags: AI, via:Paul Pival

Added: 2026-05-12 10:08

GitHub - DatanoiseTV/tinyice: Streaming server for Audio and Video (icecast compatible) written in Go with multiple mountpoint, multi-source, and relaying support and a lot more. · GitHub

This showed up in brew update as a new formula - looks like a potentially interesting self-hostable internet radio streaming server kind of thing…

Streaming server for Audio and Video (icecast compatible) written in Go with multiple mountpoint, multi-source, and relaying support and a lot more. - DatanoiseTV/tinyice

Tags: internet radio, streaming, server

Added: 2026-05-12 09:03