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On 11 May 2026 Alibaba switched on a Qwen-powered agent that lets Chinese shoppers search, pay and arrange after-sales on Taobao/Tmall’s entire 4-billion-item catalog purely through conversational chat, eliminating the need for traditional keyword navigation.
Between 5–9 May 2026, seven pools controlling roughly half of Bitcoin’s hashrate joined a new Stratum V2 working group while firms like GoMining and BM Blockchain rolled out tokenised or ‘free’ mobile mining offers, signalling an industry-wide push to reopen Bitcoin mining participation just as rising energy costs make industrial mining less profitable.
On 7–8 May 2026, Instructure shut Canvas down worldwide after hacker collective ShinyHunters exfiltrated 6.65 TB of user data and posted ransom notes, derailing final-exam schedules across North America.
In a video posted 7 May 2026, Azure CTO Mark Russinovich conceded that Windows 11’s core functions still call the 30-year-old Win32 layer, igniting fresh scrutiny of the OS’s dependence on legacy code.
On 8 May 2026 Meta permanently disabled the opt-in end-to-end encryption feature in Instagram direct messages, reverting all 3 billion users to server-readable “standard” encryption.
On 7 May 2026 Instructure abruptly took Canvas offline for about four hours worldwide after the ShinyHunters group defaced login pages and threatened to leak stolen data, derailing end-of-term exams at thousands of schools.
On 8 May 2026 Paris prosecutors converted their 16-month inquiry into Elon Musk’s X platform into a formal criminal investigation, threatening indictments after Musk and ex-CEO Linda Yaccarino failed to attend voluntary questioning on 20 April.
On 8 May 2026 the Defense Department uploaded 162 previously classified Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) documents, images and videos to a public website, fulfilling a February directive from President Trump for rapid, rolling disclosure.
On 7 May 2026 the cyber-extortion gang ShinyHunters hijacked Canvas portals across thousands of schools, forcing Instructure to pull the learning platform offline and giving institutions until 12 May to pay or see stolen data dumped.
On 7–8 May 2026, Instructure pulled its Canvas learning platform offline for thousands of schools worldwide after the hacking collective ShinyHunters exfiltrated user data and threatened to leak it unless paid by 12 May.
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