Bookmarks: Week of Jun 15 - Jun 21, 2026

Generated on June 21, 2026

IN THE WEIGHTS (LLM name lookup tool)

intheweights.com

The weights are the billions of numbers forming an AI

Search for a name and it calculates a “score” using a bunch of LLMs, and pulls together a brief bio blurb. Hilarity ensues.

#via:ResearchBuzz #LLM #AI

Websites and portals are down as Mount Royal University responds to a cyber security incident - Calgary Journal

calgaryjournal.ca

A cyberattack has left most of Mount Royal University’s main website, telephone services, and the MyMRU portal offline since Wednesday, leaving students and faculty unable to access most of the uni…

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This incident has also been reported to law enforcement.

#MountRoyalUniversity #cybersecurity

Mount Royal University responding to cyber attack, website down | CBC News

cbc.ca

Mount Royal University says it’s investigating a cyber attack that disrupted its systems on Wednesday.

#cybersecurity #MountRoyalUniversity

Nothing on the Internet Is Secure Anymore - The Atlantic

theatlantic.com

AI is enabling a deluge of cyberattacks the likes of which we’ve never seen before.

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The near future is very likely to involve more frequent, and more severe, outages and hacks just like those affecting Canvas, Meta, and Amazon. “We will see more of these disruptions,” Vigna said. “I think it’s inevitable in the short term.” Smaller but crucial companies and organizations that are not web-native—think power plants, municipal-government agencies, credit unions—are especially vulnerable. They may be running all sorts of clunky legacy code, and lack the IT capacity or financial resources to make the necessary upgrades.

#via:JasonKottke #person:MatteoWong #TheAtlantic #cybersecurity

Amiga Graphics Archive

amiga.lychesis.net

Launched in 1985 the Commodore Amiga boasted graphics capabilities that were unsurpassed for it’s time. It featured an intricate collection of custom chips that enabled it to do things that, until then, had been impossible to achieve with other personal computers. This site is dedicated to graphics made with or for the Commodore Amiga home computer.

#Amiga #graphics #screenshots

Who Finds the Flaws First

onedtech.philhillaa.com

The Canvas breach looks like a story about one vendor’s bad month. It is really about a calculation that has changed for all of EdTech.

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There is already evidence that the increased focus on EdTech is happening. ShinyHunters has spent roughly the last year and a half working through education and the technology it depends on, with Instructure multiple times, McGraw Hill, Infinite Campus, and individual universities among the confirmed victims. Just last week, Google said a ShinyHunters-linked campaign had exploited a zero-day in Oracle’s PeopleSoft enterprise software, with higher education making up the majority of U.S.-based targets. This is the pattern of EdTech that is increasingly becoming worth the trouble.

#cybersecurity #edtech #person:PhilHill

Wifi | Information Technologies | University of Calgary

it.ucalgary.ca

IT is upgrading wifi across campus. Schedule and info about changes.

#UCalgary #IT #wifi

A Card is worth a thousand questions: a clinical resource to support Canadian medical students and their preceptors

academic.oup.com

Article published by Mike paget and his team in medicine.

Having developed a national paediatric undergraduate curriculum, canuc-paeds, our group identified a need for active learning resources aligned with it to support Canadian medical students and preceptors. We developed a formative e-learning resource, called Cards, that enables students to self-test, supplement their clinical experiences, and develop their clinical decision-making skills in paediatrics. … Cards, based on paediatric clinical vignettes that reflect clinical practice, is a tool that may help learners develop clinical decision-making skills. Cards have demonstrated a high rate of return on authors’ investment, as the technology generates thousands of unique vignettes from a single template. High-usage rates support Cards as a valuable open-access resource.

#person:MikePaget #simulation #article #OpenLabyrinth

FTP Calculator – Estimate From 20-Min, 8-Min, or Ramp Test

cyclingregimen.com

Calculate cycling FTP from 20-minute, 2x8-minute, 5-minute, and ramp tests. Get W/kg context, Sweet Spot watts, and NP-based IF/TSS guidance.

#cycling #fitness #FTP #calculator

Same Same but Different: The Anatomy of AI Design Sameness | Sascha Becker

saschb2b.com

An obviously / PAINFULLY OBVIOUSLY / AI-written article, but, regardless, it has some good points.

Hand an agent your art direction and it still builds the page everyone else got. That is not a taste problem, it is a statistics problem. A look at the history of design convergence, the research that explains why prompts cannot escape it, and the levers that actually steer back toward identity.

Yes, AI-generated websites/software/images/whatever seem similar and homogeneous. But convergence is a thing for many reasons, and AI may only be making it more obvious because we’re looking for it?

#via:KagiSmallWeb #AI #vibecoding

Privacy Management Program | University Legal Services | University of Calgary

ucalgary.ca

The Government of Alberta has updated Alberta’s public-sector access to information and privacy legislation by repealing the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FOIP) and replacing it with two new pieces of legislation. These changes took effect on June 11, 2025. The new legislation separates access to information and privacy into two distinct frameworks: the Access to Information Act (ATIA) and the Protection of Privacy Act (POPA).

Under POPA, all Alberta public bodies—including UCalgary—are required to establish and maintain a comprehensive Privacy Management Program (PMP). UCalgary’s PMP is an institution‑wide framework designed to ensure that UCalgary is prepared to meet its legal responsibilities under POPA, including protecting privacy, providing appropriate access to personal information, and supporting accountability, transparency, and fairness. It outlines the documented policies, procedures and standards that guide how personal information may be managed across all faculties, departments, and administrative units, and reflects UCalgary’s commitment to protecting personal privacy and maintaining public trust.

#UCalgary #privacy #policy

Dr. Leroy Little Bear: Redefining Indigenous Education, Law, and Knowledge Systems

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Dr. Leroy Little Bear is a renowned Blackfoot scholar, legal thinker, and Professor Emeritus whose lifelong work has redefined Indigenous education, law, and knowledge systems in North America. A founding architect of Canada’s first Native American Studies Department at the University of Lethbridge and a key contributor to Section 35 of Canada’s Constitution Act, he has advanced Indigenous rights globally.

Transcending Boundaries is a podcast hosted by Reeta Roy, President and CEO of the Mastercard Foundation, which features intimate conversations with exceptional leaders. Each episode explores value-based leadership by diving deep into the lives of extraordinary people who have changed their communities, their countries, and the world for the better.

#person:LeroyLittleBear #indigenous #video