Hackers Get Paid

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🗓️ 12 May 2026

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Instructure cut a deal with ShinyHunters to return stolen Canvas data, without disclosing the terms. eBay rejected GameStop's $56B bid as "neither credible nor attractive." OpenAI launches Daybreak for cybersecurity, Amazon employees game AI usage targets, and Mira Murati's first model drops. Instructure reaches a deal with hackers who breached its Canvas edtech platform to return stolen data and destroy copies, without saying what it gave in return (NYT) eBay rejects GameStop's $56B takeover offer, saying the unsolicited bid is "neither credible nor attractive", in a letter from eBay Chairman Paul Pressler (Bloomberg) OpenAI launches Daybreak, a cybersecurity initiative integrating AI models and Codex Security to help organizations patch vulnerabilities (TestingCatalog) Sources: some Amazon employees are using in-house OpenClaw-like tool MeshClaw for unnecessary tasks to inflate AI token use after Amazon set weekly AI targets (FT) AppMagic: Grok downloads fell to ~8.3M in April, from a high of 20M+ in January; Recon Analytics: Grok's paid adoption in the US remains nearly flat YoY in Q2 (WSJ) Thinking Machines Lab details interaction models, which can think and respond in real time, letting users and AI interact continuously for better collaboration (Thinking Machines Lab) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.1	Welcome to the TechBrewrite Home for Tuesday, May 12th, 2026. I'm Brian McCullough today. Instructure-cutted deal with the hackers.
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1:35.0	Terms apply. Compromised education company and structure has reportedly reached a deal with
1:42.9	hackers who breached its Canvas
1:44.5	ed tech platform to return stolen data and destroy copies without saying what it gave in return.
1:51.0	Quoting the times, shiny hunters, a hacking group had claimed responsibility for the attack
1:55.3	on Instructure, the Salt Lake City-based company that provides canvas to about half of all
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