In 1951, the Civil Rights Congress submitted a petition to the UN charging that the “brutality and discrimination” of Jim Crow constituted genocide by the US govt. The US prevented any debate on the petition and CRC leaders were persecuted thereafter.
A single point of failure. A hacking group attacked Instructure, the maker of leading learning management system Canvas.
This occurred around the end of semester for many schools, creating extra stresses and chaos in the time of final exams, projects, and grades. ShinyHunters claimed to have copied a great deal of private data, then attacked again, demanding ransom for the return of individual campus Canvas instances. As of this writing many Canvas instances are back up, although it's not clear how many were damaged, nor who might have paid ransom. Instructure's status page and incident report. Reports from 404 Media, Inside Higher Ed, The New York Times, local KSL.
This occurred around the end of semester for many schools, creating extra stresses and chaos in the time of final exams, projects, and grades. ShinyHunters claimed to have copied a great deal of private data, then attacked again, demanding ransom for the return of individual campus Canvas instances. As of this writing many Canvas instances are back up, although it's not clear how many were damaged, nor who might have paid ransom. Instructure's status page and incident report. Reports from 404 Media, Inside Higher Ed, The New York Times, local KSL.
SUNNYVALE (ANP/BLOOMBERG) - De producent van AI-chips Cerebras Systems wil meer geld ophalen met zijn beursgang op Wall Street dan eerder gepland. Volgens bronnen tegen persbureau Bloomberg is Cerebras van plan de uitgifteprijs bij de beursgang te verhogen vanwege de grote interesse van investeerders. Mogelijk kan het bedrijf maandag met een bekendmaking komen.
Volgens Bloomberg mikt het bedrijf nu op een introductieprijs tussen de 125 en 135 dollar per aandeel. Dat was eerder nog 115 tot 125 dollar per aandeel. Oorspronkelijk werd met de beursgang op de techbeurs Nasdaq gemikt op een opbrengst van maximaal 3,5 miljard dollar. De ingewijden zeggen dat Cerebras de uitgifteprijs zelfs nog verder kan verhogen.
Cerebras maakt grote chips die speciale computers helpen om grote hoeveelheden data te verwerken. Volgens het bedrijf zijn het de grootste en krachtigste AI-chips ter wereld en volgens topman Andrew Feldman draaien AI-modellen er sneller door dan met chips van Nvidia.
Aandelenmarkt
De gang naar de aandelenmarkt door het in 2015 opgerichte Cerebras zou de grootste beursgang in New York tot dusver van dit jaar kunnen worden en zou volgende week donderdag plaats moeten vinden.
Het in het Californische Sunnyvale gevestigde bedrijf sloot in januari nog een deal voor drie jaar met OpenAI ter waarde van 20 miljard dollar. Het AI-bedrijf bracht in februari zijn eerste AI-model uit dat draait met chips van Cerebras. Het bedrijf achter ChatGPT heeft 1 miljard dollar verstrekt aan Cerebras om te investeren in datacenters. Amazon liet eerder weten ook van plan te zijn om gebruik te maken van chips van Cerebras.
CARDIFF (ANP/AFP) - Labour heeft een groot verlies geleden bij de parlementsverkiezingen in Wales, waar het de politiek ruim een eeuw domineerde. De Senedd komt voor het eerst sinds zijn oprichting in 1999 onder controle te staan van een andere partij. De nationalistische Plaid Cymru is nu de grootste partij van Wales.
Labour heeft nu nog maar 9 zetels. Plaid Cymru heeft er 43 zetels, dat zijn er 6 te weinig voor een absolute meerderheid. Deze centrumlinkse partij zet zich in voor onder meer de bescherming van de Welshe taal en cultuur en is ook voor onafhankelijkheid van Wales, al eeuwen deel van het Verenigd Koninkrijk.
De radicaal-rechtse Reform UK doet met 34 zetels zijn intrede in het parlement. De Conservative Party telt nu 7 zetels, de Green Party 2 en de Liberal Democrats 1.
Verlies
De Welshe premier Eluned Morgan maakte eerder op vrijdag bekend af te treden als leider van Labour in Wales. Ze verloor bij de verkiezingen haar eigen zetel in het parlement, als eerste zittende regeringsleider in het VK. De Britse premier Keir Starmer, ook van Labour, bedankte Morgan en omschreef haar als een "formidabele" premier en "een onvermoeibare voorvechter van Wales".
Labour stond er al lange tijd slecht voor in de peilingen, niet alleen in Wales. Labour scoorde donderdag ook slecht bij de lokale verkiezingen in Engeland en de parlementsverkiezingen in Schotland. Er worden nog stemmen geteld. In Schotland zijn 77 van de 129 zetels in het parlement al verdeeld, met naar verwachting opnieuw een overwinning voor de Scottish National Party (SNP).
In Engeland gaan de verkiezingen over ruim 5000 zetels van 136 lokale volksvertegenwoordigingen. Volgens Britse media zijn de uitslagen op 115 plekken inmiddels bekend. Labour heeft zeker 793 zetels en verliest er minstens 1099. Reform UK is de grote winnaar. Die gaat van 2 naar zeker 1231 zetels.
KYIV (ANP) - De Oekraïense president Volodymyr Zelensky bevestigt in een verklaring dat er een driedaagse staakt-het-vuren met Rusland komt. Zijn Amerikaanse ambtgenoot Donald Trump had het bestand een half uur eerder aangekondigd.
Oekraïne en Rusland zullen de strijd op 9, 10 en 11 mei staken. Dat is het resultaat van een onderhandelingsproces onder Amerikaanse bemiddeling, aldus Zelensky. Hij bedankt Trump en zijn team voor "hun productieve diplomatieke betrokkenheid" en zegt te verwachten dat de Verenigde Staten ervoor zullen zorgen dat Rusland de afspraken nakomt.
Zelensky bevestigt ook dat beide landen duizend gevangenen zullen vrijlaten. Het is nog niet duidelijk wanneer die gevangenenruil zal plaatsvinden. "Oekraïne werkt er voortdurend aan om zijn mensen thuis te brengen uit Russische gevangenschap. Ik heb mijn team opdracht gegeven om snel alles voor te bereiden wat nodig is voor de uitwisseling", meldt Zelensky daarover.
Hij heeft de strijdkrachten per decreet expliciet opdracht gegeven het Rode Plein in Moskou op 9 mei niet aan te vallen als daar een militaire parade bezig is. Rusland viert die dag de Dag van de Overwinning, de overwinning van de Sovjet-Unie op nazi-Duitsland in de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Dat gebeurt jaarlijks met onder meer militaire parades, waarvan de grootste op het Rode Plein.
Head coach Álvaro Arbeloa is facing the bitterest of ends as faint hopes are set to be extinguished by fiercest rivals
The vice-captain was taken to hospital for stitches having been laid out by his midfield partner. Another midfielder said he wouldn’t play any more; as if he was going to play anyway. The manager wasn’t asking for much, just that they didn’t swan out there as if wearing tuxedos, and that’s still asking too much. The centre-back hit the left-back. The winger fell out with the last coach. The captain fell out with this coach. And the superstar, already accused of not caring, swanning off to Sardinia, drives out of the training ground, past the cameras and away from the whole sorry mess, laughing his head off. Now here’s Barcelona.
You think things can’t get any worse but things can always get worse. The most painful week anyone could remember, maybe the biggest, most public crisis they have ever had, concludes with Real Madrid travelling to the Camp Nou on Sunday for the clásico. If they don’t win, and few believe they can given the football they play and the faultlines that run through their dressing room, they will watch Barcelona become champions with three games left, going down as the flames go higher and history is made. It would be the first time in 94 years a meeting of sport’s great rivals decides the title – only this title has long been decided, both cause and consequence of the turmoil Madrid are in.
Continue reading...Whimsical film shows relay of animals carrying centennial card from Balmoral Castle to naturalist in London
King Charles has featured in a surprise birthday tribute to David Attenborough, with a cast of wild animals helping to relay his handwritten congratulatory centenary card.
The whimsical film, A Very Special Delivery, begins with the king writing his tribute in the library of Balmoral Castle. Charles, wearing an animal-themed tie featuring elephants, reflects on more than 60 years of friendship with the renowned naturalist.
Continue reading...Djokovic loses in three sets to Dino Prizmic in Rome
‘Not ideal preparation’ for French Open later this month
Novak Djokovic believes he must accept the “new reality” of his continuous physical struggles in the latter part of his career as his return to competition after an injury-ravaged clay-court season ended in a second-round Italian Open loss to the young Croatian qualifier Dino Prizmic, who recovered courageously from a set down to topple his idol 2-6, 6-2, 6-4.
Djokovic has not competed since the Indian Wells Masters event two months ago, his only other tournament since his spectacular run to the Australian Open final. As the fourth seed in Rome, he received a first-round bye. Despite starting the match positively, the 38-year-old was outplayed by his 20-year-old opponent, who wore the Serb down physically and played bold tennis to escape with the greatest victory of his career.
Continue reading...Keir Starmer’s party lost out to Reform and the Greens, with no respite in Scotland, Wales or England. These maps show the scale of the historic results
Labour has suffered heavy losses across England, Scotland and Wales, losing ground to opponents on the left and the right in a fragmented political system.
The graphics below show where Labour’s losses were most severe, and how the electoral landscape has changed as a result.
Continue reading...It’s the Royal Albert Hall birthday party for Britain’s most beloved broadcaster. Which big names will do the speeches? What will the orchestra play? And will it all be overshadowed by the great man’s TV clips? Follow along here
While we wait for the show to begin, allow me to offer you some links to some of our recent David Attenborough coverage.
Here’s our tribute to the man’s birthday, hilariously including the insinuation that he probably would have just preferred to stay at home today
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Skyrocketing hard drive and storage costs caused by the AI data center boom are making it more expensive and more difficult for digital archivists, academics, Wikipedia, and hobby data hoarders to save data and archive the internet. Specific drives favored by some high profile organizations like the Internet Archive have become far more expensive or are difficult to find at all, archivists said. Over the last several months, prices for both consumer level and enterprise solid state drives, hard drives, and other types of storage have skyrocketed. As an example, a 2TB external Samsung SSD I purchased last fall for $159 now costs $575. PC Part Picker, a website that tracks the average price of different types of drives, shows a universal increase in storage prices starting in about October of last year. Prices of many of the drives it tracks have doubled or increased by more than 150 percent, and at some stores SSDs and hard drives are simply sold out. There is now even a secondary market for some SSDs, with people scalping them on eBay and elsewhere.
Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive and the Wayback Machine, the most important archiving projects in the history of the internet, told 404 Media that the skyrocketing costs of storage is "a very real issue costing us time and money." "We have found that the preferred 28-30TB drives are just not available or at very high price," Kahle said. "We gather over 100 terabytes of new materials each day, and we have over 210 Petabytes of materials already archived on machines that need continuous upgrades and maintenance, so we need to constantly get new hard drives."
"We are fortunate to have an active community that donates to the Archive, and we are also looking for help from hard drive manufacturers in these difficult times. We are always looking for more help," he added. "So far we have ways to work around these shortages, but it is a very real issue causing us time and money."
The Wikimedia Foundation, which runs Wikipedia and various other projects, including Wikimedia Commons, an open repository of royalty free media, told 404 Media that the cost of storage has become a concern for the foundation's projects as well. "With over 65 million articles on Wikipedia alone, access to server and storage capacity is vital to us. We've certainly seen price increases since the end of 2025. These price increases are of concern to us, as with every other player in the industry. We see the primary impact in the purchase of memory and hard drives but also in terms of lead times on server deliveries and our capacity to place future orders," a Wikimedia Foundation spokesperson told us. "The Wikimedia Foundation is a non-profit, and as such how we allocate budget is very carefully considered. We maintain our own data centers to serve our users from all over the world. We're putting workarounds in place where we can, mainly involving being smart with how we prioritize investment in hardware, building in flexibility as well as extending the life of existing hardware where possible."
Western Digital, one of the largest manufacturers of hard drives and other storage systems, said that it has essentially sold out of its 2026 inventory to enterprise clients, many of which run data centers. Micron, which made RAM and SSDs under the brand name Crucial, has exited the consumer market altogether because "AI-driven growth in the data center has led to a surge in demand for memory and storage. Micron has made the difficult decision to exit the Crucial consumer business in order to improve supply and support for our larger, strategic customers in faster-growing segments."
Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive and the Wayback Machine, the most important archiving projects in the history of the internet, told 404 Media that the skyrocketing costs of storage is "a very real issue costing us time and money." "We have found that the preferred 28-30TB drives are just not available or at very high price," Kahle said. "We gather over 100 terabytes of new materials each day, and we have over 210 Petabytes of materials already archived on machines that need continuous upgrades and maintenance, so we need to constantly get new hard drives."
"We are fortunate to have an active community that donates to the Archive, and we are also looking for help from hard drive manufacturers in these difficult times. We are always looking for more help," he added. "So far we have ways to work around these shortages, but it is a very real issue causing us time and money."
The Wikimedia Foundation, which runs Wikipedia and various other projects, including Wikimedia Commons, an open repository of royalty free media, told 404 Media that the cost of storage has become a concern for the foundation's projects as well. "With over 65 million articles on Wikipedia alone, access to server and storage capacity is vital to us. We've certainly seen price increases since the end of 2025. These price increases are of concern to us, as with every other player in the industry. We see the primary impact in the purchase of memory and hard drives but also in terms of lead times on server deliveries and our capacity to place future orders," a Wikimedia Foundation spokesperson told us. "The Wikimedia Foundation is a non-profit, and as such how we allocate budget is very carefully considered. We maintain our own data centers to serve our users from all over the world. We're putting workarounds in place where we can, mainly involving being smart with how we prioritize investment in hardware, building in flexibility as well as extending the life of existing hardware where possible."
Western Digital, one of the largest manufacturers of hard drives and other storage systems, said that it has essentially sold out of its 2026 inventory to enterprise clients, many of which run data centers. Micron, which made RAM and SSDs under the brand name Crucial, has exited the consumer market altogether because "AI-driven growth in the data center has led to a surge in demand for memory and storage. Micron has made the difficult decision to exit the Crucial consumer business in order to improve supply and support for our larger, strategic customers in faster-growing segments."
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De ongeveer honderdvijftig Nederlandse reizigers en bemanningsleden van het Nederlandse cruiseschip Hondius moeten na hun repatriëring zes weken lang thuis quarantaine vanwege…
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Een van de vijf Nederlanders die in Spanje zijn opgepakt voor betrokkenheid bij een megadrugsvangst komt uit Rotterdam. Het gaat om Alexander T., schrijft het AD. Hij was volgens de krant bewaker van een partij van ruim 30.000 kilo cocaïne op een schip uit Sierra Leone, dat wordt gelinkt aan drugscrimineel Bolle Jos.
