📊 Canary Islands, Canvas Outage, and Customs Tracking

Cruise evacuations, cyberattack chaos, and ICE mapping.

May 11, 2026

Greetings! Happy Mother’s Day to those celebrating.

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🌎 GLOBAL NEWS

🇮🇨 Cruise passengers leave a viral limbo. Passengers evacuated from the MV Hondius began flying home Sunday. The cruise ship had anchored near Tenerife in the Canary Islands. Spanish passengers left first and flew to Madrid. They were taken to a military hospital. French passengers later landed in Paris. Emergency vehicles met their flight. Small vessels carried passengers from the ship to Granadilla port. Officials then moved them by bus toward quarantine. Flights were expected to remove travelers from more than 20 countries. The evacuation was expected to last until Monday. One of five French passengers developed symptoms during the flight. French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu said all five were put in strict isolation. Earlier, the Spanish Health Ministry, World Health Organization (WHO), and Oceanwide Expeditions said more than 140 people aboard had shown no symptoms. Three people have died since the outbreak began. Five passengers who left the ship earlier are infected with hantavirus. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said this is not another COVID and public risk remains low. Passengers still left in protective gear, without luggage, and with only essentials.

🇮🇷 Narges Mohammadi reaches a Tehran hospital. Nobel Peace laureate Narges Mohammadi has been transferred to a Tehran hospital. The 53-year-old Iranian human rights activist had collapsed in prison more than a week earlier. Her foundation said the transfer followed days of pleading by relatives and supporters. It also said her prison sentence was suspended on bail. The length of that suspension remains unclear. Mohammadi had been imprisoned since December in Zanjan prison. She lost consciousness twice and was moved to a local hospital on May 1st. Her foundation said the suspension is not enough. It wants permanent specialized care and unconditional freedom. Her lawyer, Mostafa Nili, said government-appointed medical examiners found she needed treatment outside prison. Iranian authorities did not immediately comment. Her brother Hamidreza said medical examiners had recommended transfer before. He blamed Iran’s intelligence agency for blocking the move. She won the Nobel in 2023 while incarcerated, and has been jailed repeatedly for her rights work. Her family says her health deteriorated after she was heavily beaten during arrest. She had a heart attack in March and has a blood clot in her lung.

🇺🇸 LOCAL NEWS

💻 Canvas breaks finals week’s brittle machinery. A cyberattack on Canvas has disrupted final exam season across American schools. Canvas is the online platform colleges use for exams, course notes, lecture videos, grades, and messages. Its parent company, Instructure, said most users regained access by late Thursday. That did not end the academic scramble. Some schools kept blocking access out of caution. The hacking group ShinyHunters claimed responsibility. Luke Connolly, a threat analyst at cybersecurity firm Emsisoft, said the group made the claim. ShinyHunters said nearly 9,000 schools and 275M individuals’ data could be leaked. It set a May 6th ransom deadline, then extended it. The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth postponed Friday and Saturday exams. The University of Illinois postponed all exams scheduled from Friday through Sunday. Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland continued limiting access. Steve Proud, Instructure’s chief information security officer, said exposed data appeared to include student identification numbers, emails, names, and Canvas messages. He said passwords, birth dates, government identification, and financial data were not found compromised. The outage showed how education outsourced its nervous system to one login screen.

🥩 Meatpacking data gets an antitrust reckoning. President Trump’s administration has reached a proposed settlement in a meatpacking antitrust case. The case targets Agri Stats, an Indiana-based data-sharing company. The Department of Justice (DOJ) said the deal is meant to help lower grocery prices. The case was first brought under the Biden administration. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche called affordable food central to national well-being. Federal officials said Agri Stats collected nonpublic information from meat processors. They said it shared detailed reports with chicken, pork, and turkey processors. The government alleged those reports helped processors inflate prices charged to restaurants, grocery stores, and other buyers. Under the settlement, Agri Stats must share most processor data with American buyers. Agri Stats President Eric Scholer said the company was pleased to put the case behind it. He also said Agri Stats helped improve chicken industry efficiency. The DOJ is separately investigating beef-processing antitrust questions. That investigation followed Trump’s request to examine whether foreign-owned meatpackers were pushing beef prices higher. Ground beef averaged $6.70 per pound in March. That was 16% higher than a year earlier. Drought, small herds, labor costs, and blocked Mexican cattle imports are also pushing prices.

🗂️ MISC

🗺️ Tucson maps immigration enforcement. Tucson migrant advocates have built a public map of immigration enforcement. The tool is called Tucson Migra Map. It tracks activity by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other federal agencies. Its launch comes as arrests rise under President Trump’s mass deportation initiative. Activist Lucia Vindiola said enforcement has disrupted families’ ability to shop for groceries and supplies. Vindiola founded La Bodega, a mutual-aid group helping affected residents. Immigration-related detentions in fiscal year 2025 more than tripled in the Tucson area. They rose from fewer than 200 in late 2024 to more than 800 by June 2025. Geographer Dugan Meyer, a University of Arizona doctoral student, helped create the map. He also volunteers with Tucson Rapid Response. The database draws from spreadsheets maintained since January 2025. It tracks raids, vehicle stops, and aerial surveillance. Incidents are labeled confirmed or credible but unconfirmed. Meyer said about 562 incidents had been reviewed by late April. Around 300 met the threshold for inclusion. Federal officials say tracking can endanger officers. The map’s creators say it reports past enforcement, not real-time locations.

🍼 Olivia and Liam keep naming America. Olivia and Liam were America’s top baby names for the seventh straight year. The Social Security Administration (SSA) released the 2025 rankings before Mother’s Day. The agency tracks names from Social Security card applications. Its national lists go back to 1880. The rankings are part culture ledger, part generational mirror. Charlotte rose to second place among girls. That ended Emma’s six-year run as runner-up. Ava fell out of the Top 10. Eliana entered it. Among boys, the top four stayed unchanged. Liam, Noah, Oliver, and Theodore held their places. Henry, James, Elijah, Mateo, William, and Lucas completed the boys’ Top 10. Olivia, Charlotte, Emma, Amelia, Sophia, Mia, Isabella, Evelyn, Sofia, and Eliana led the girls’ list. Kasai was the fastest-rising boys’ name, jumping 1,108 spots into the Top 1,000. Klarity was the fastest-rising girls’ name, up 1,396 spots. The SSA said 3.6M babies were born in 2025, slightly below 3.61M in 2024.