Hollywood production company creates AI-enhanced animation with NMSU students

Hollywood producers say their collaboration with NMSU students is among the first AI-enhanced, photorealistic animated ...

Keanu Reeves-Voiced Stop-Motion Samurai Animation ‘Hidari’ Steals the Show at Annecy: ‘Imagine ‘John Wick’ Set in Feudal Japan and Performed by Wooden Puppe…

Keanu Reeves will voice stop-motion samurai animation ‘Hidari,’ directed by Masashi Kawamura, described as 'John Wick' set in ...
Tech Times

Figma Config 2026: Code Layers Challenge Cursor as GPU Shaders Hit Paid Plans

Figma Config 2026 closed Thursday with Code Layers for GitHub-linked canvas editing, Figma Motion in open beta with CSS and ...
CMSWire

Figma Launches Code Layers & Motion at Config 2026

Figma announced a suite of new features at Config 2026 on June 24, expanding its platform with code layers, built-in motion design, shader fills and effects, generative plugins, Weave tools and an ...
The Next Web

Figma adds code layers to the canvas and lets users build custom AI plugins at Config 2026

Figma unveiled code layers, animation support, AI-generated shaders, custom skills for its AI assistant, and deeper Weavy integration at Config 2026.

StoReel Launches Canvas, AI Production Platform Targeting Microdrama Creators (EXCLUSIVE)

StoReel unveils Canvas, an AI-native production platform that lets microdrama creators produce series 3x faster at a fraction ...
CNN

Data stolen in Canvas hack that hit thousands of schools has been returned, company says

Data stolen in a cyberattack that shut down an education platform used by universities and K-12 schools across the US last week has been returned to the platform’s parent company, Instructure, ...
The New York Times

Maker of Canvas Learning Platform Strikes Deal for Hackers to Return Data

Instructure, which provides Canvas software to thousands of schools and universities around the world, did not say what it had given the hackers in exchange for the stolen data. By Qasim Nauman The ...
Inside Higher Ed

Instructure Pays Ransom to Canvas Hackers

Instructure has paid a ransom to a gang of cybercriminals that have twice hacked the company’s learning management system, Canvas, over the past week and a half. According to an update published by ...
NPR

What to know about the Canvas hack of student data

Millions of students in universities and K-12 districts had their data compromised this week as a hack took down Canvas, a classroom management tool used all over the country. Millions of students in ...
USA Today

Canvas, digital platform used by universities, back up after ransom hack

Canvas, a learning management platform, is back online after being down for hours on May 7 following a cyberattack. Hacking group ShinyHunters took responsibility for the breach at Instructure, and ...
PBS

Canvas system used by thousands of schools is back online after a cyberattack created chaos

A system that thousands of schools and universities use to support instruction was back online Friday after it went down during a cyberattack that created chaos as students tried to study for final ...