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BREAKING NEWS — Shortly after 4:00 p.m. on Thursday, May 7, MIT students lost access to Canvas, the platform that hosts instructional material for nearly all courses, following a breach of the website’s parent company Instructure by cybercrime group ShinyHunters.

MIT is among thousands of universities that use Canvas as their primary instructional platform and are affected by the hack.

The breach comes just as students are wrapping up their final assignments. According to the MIT Registrar, no assignment may fall due after May 8 for subjects with final exams. It also comes just before MIT’s final exams period, which is from May 15 to 20.

MIT’s Information and Systems Technology (IS&T) is aware of the data breach and has issued an announcement on its website. The notice reads, “MIT is actively monitoring the situation and coordinating with the vendor as they work to restore service. This issue originates with the vendor environment and is not the result of an issue within MIT’s local systems.”

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Samuel Yuan ’29 and Grace Zhang ’28 have the story.
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SCIENCE — Breaking down the science of superglue and its applications to everything from wound treatment to preventing microplastic pollution. Traveling to the Netherlands to look inside the machine responsible for some of the tiniest, most delicate parts of modern computers. Illuminating a logical paradox so divisive that experts around the world — and in the YouTube comment section — can’t agree on the optimal solution.

In the two years since Leah “Sulli” Yost ’22 began working as a writer and director for the science YouTube channel Veritasium, she has gone deep down many scientific rabbit holes. Her videos have been published in seven different languages, reaching Veritasium’s over 20 million subscribers.

Though Yost says she’s “always really loved” stories of many forms — including movies, books, and interactive infographics — her path to YouTube was not exactly linear. Originally a mathematics (Course 18) and writing (Course 21W) double major, Yost only began working on science videos after Veritasium hired her. She was able to navigate the change because of her love for writing and her MIT education.

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Veronika Moroz ’28 has the story.
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