Chaos erupted at schools and colleges throughout the US on Thursday as a cyberattack disrupted online learning platform Canvas just as students were due to take final exams.
Canvas parent company Instructure said that as of Friday morning, the platform was back online. Instructure said it temporarily took Canvas offline on Thursday after identifying unauthorized activity in its network. The threat actor was the same one responsible for a data breach that Instructure disclosed a week ago. Data accessed included user names, email addresses, student ID numbers, and messages exchanged on the platform. The company said it has no indication that passwords, dates of birth, government identifiers, or financial information were involved.
Schools and colleges scramble
A ransomware group known as ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for the breach on its dark web site. It claimed the data it took came from 275 million people associated with 8,800 schools.
As students were trying to prepare for and take final exams Thursday, Canvas login pages displayed a ransom demand. It said Instructure had rebuffed the group’s earlier demands and encouraged individual schools to negotiate directly with them. The note and the outage sent schools and colleges scrambling. The University of Illinois reportedly postponed all final exams and assignments scheduled for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth rescheduled or extended due dates for exams. The University of California system directed all its campuses to linkword.
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Canvas isn’t the only learning platform to be struck by a cyberattack. Last year, PowerSchool, a firm that provides cloud-based software to 60 million students from 16,000 K–12 schools worldwide, disclosed a breach that exposed years’ worth of sensitive data, including names, addresses, and disciplinary records.
ShinyHunters has operated for years as a loose collective. In 2024, it made off with a trove of credentials and other data from cloud storage provider Snowflake and used it in follow-on breaches of Snowflake customers, including TicketMaster.
Displays have come a long way, from monstrous CRT televisions to thin, lightweight LCDs and the portable smartphone displays we have now. The transition to wearable displays, however, has been thwarted by the annoying habit of OLED displays to break instead of bending. That might not be a problem anymore, as South Korean researchers, in collaboration with counterparts at Philadelphia-based Drexel University, claim to have developed a new type of OLED display that is both bendable and stretchable.
Flexible OLED displays have been around for more than a decade, but current foldable smartphones have serious drawbacks, such as significantly reduced display durability. Repeated folding and unfolding cause micro-fractures in the conductive traces and the gradual degradation of the organic layers of the OLED substrate. This manifests as visible damage and reduced image quality. The same weakness also makes it extremely difficult to integrate the current generation of flexible OLED displays into wearables that will likely be subject to repeated stretching and folding cycles.
The new flexible OLED display, described in the journal Nature, uses nanomaterials that allow it to be safely stretched to a whopping 1.6 times its original size. While contemporary wearable displays lose a significant amount of their brightness upon stretching, this nanomaterial-enhanced OLED display can allegedly retain 83% of its light output after 100 cycles rated at 2% strain. Let’s take a look at what makes this new technology tick.
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Leveraging nanotechnology to improve brightness and durability
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Traditional flexible OLED displays cannot endure many bending and stretching cycles due to the fragility of the conductive electrodes and organic layers that make up the panel. The electrical underpinnings wear out over repeated strain cycles, while the stretchable polymer layers introduced to enhance flexibility and durability reduce the display’s brightness and energy efficiency.
The new flexible OLED design overcomes those shortcomings by using a nanomaterial dubbed MXene to create transparent and stretchable electrodes. Developed by Drexel University’s College of Engineering in 2011, the nanomaterial combines excellent electrical conductivity, mechanical strength, stretchability, and transparency. This allows for a bendable display that claims to retain almost 90% of its performance and efficiency when stretched up to 60% of its maximum strain limit.
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The researchers’ claims of impressive light efficiency stem from a new stretchable organic layer, called an exciplex-assisted phosphorescent (ExciPh) layer, that essentially alters the energy level of the OLED system to produce light more efficiently. An OLED pixel produces light by combining the positive and negative charges generated by the electrodes, which eventually unite to form an exciton. The subsequent decay of these excitons generates the electroluminescence driving individual OLED pixels. The new ExciPh layer lets more than 57% of excitons produce light, much higher than the 12% to 22% of traditional flexible OLEDs. This makes for a flexible display that’s not only more durable but also significantly brighter.
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Will these lab experiments mature into consumer applications?
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While the publication of research papers on high-tech displays and other promising phone-related technologies doesn’t always translate into consumer products, this joint US–Korean research endeavor did at least result in displays that offer a glimpse of the future. Drexel University researchers demonstrated the efficacy of their stretchable OLED display technology with two green monochrome displays: one depicted a heart icon, while the other showed a set of numbers.
Their counterparts at Seoul National University went one step further, developing a full-color stretchable display, replete with stretchable passive-matrix OLEDs. In other words, this flexible OLED technology already seems relatively mature, and deploying it in low-power wearable display solutions is not out of the realm of possibility.
The authors of this research paper list real-time health care monitoring and wearable communications technology as the potential applications of the stretchable OLED display prototypes demonstrated in their journal publication. Meanwhile, contemporary research into stretchable batteries, as discussed in ACS Energy Letters, seems to herald a future where wearable displays are the norm rather than science fiction.
The pharma has four locations in Ireland, employing more than 1,000 professionals.
Japanese pharmaceutical company Takeda has announced plans to cut 4,500 people from its globally dispersed workforce, as a means of restructuring and reducing costs. Reportedly the cuts will start in early July and could extend to December 2027.
According to a recent investor presentation, the company’s restructuring plans will include consolidating its departments for efficiency, cutting management layers and automating operations, all in the name of generating the necessary funds to support upcoming drug launches.
Current hiring plans will not be impacted however, as Takeda intends to fill 2,200 vacant roles. Some of which will go to internal candidates. With more than 50,000 workers worldwide, in more than 80 global locations, it is unclear which regions will be most impacted.
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It is unknown how the cuts might affect Ireland. The pharmaceutical company has had a presence in the country since 1997 and has four locations. In Dublin there are facilities at Citywest, Grange Castle and Baggot Street. There is also a premises in Bray, Wicklow.
The Bray facility was previously chosen as Takeda’s first European OSD facility, allowing expansion into global markets and in 2004 Takeda chose Grange Castle as its first active pharmaceutical ingredient facility outside of Japan. Currently, the company employs more than 1,000 people in Ireland.
SiliconRepublic.com has reached out to Takeda regarding how the layoffs might impact employees based in Ireland.
Earlier this week coding platform GitLab announced plans to cut an undisclosed number of jobs, with additional plans to reduce its global operational footprint by up to 30pc. Carmaker GM also announced layoffs, with around 30 Ireland-based employees expected to be affected in the layoffs.
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‘This must be engagement farming’: Nothing CEO pokes fun at Sony for ‘awful’ Xperia 1 VIII social post showing its AI Camera Assistant tool making photos look worse
Sony has posted an advert for the Xperia 1 VIII’s AI Camera Assistant tool
But all the images using this feature look worse than the ‘before’ shots
It’s unclear how this could have happened without Sony realizing
AI is a controversial tool, but even those against the technology would probably admit that it has some utility. One such use case is to improve photos, but Sony’s recent attempt to advertise AI’s skills in this area has very much backfired.
You see, the Sony Xperia 1 VIII has just launched with an ‘AI Camera Assistant’ tool, which, on paper, sounds promising. It can make suggestions about settings you might want to change, such as exposure, bokeh, and color, based on what you’re pointing the viewfinder at, in order to get the best version of a photo. Except, its suggestions are seemingly absolutely terrible.
In a post on X, the official Sony Xperia account has shown some before and after photos aimed at advertising the capabilities of this tool, but the improved shots basically just seem to be overexposed to ludicrous levels, washing out colors and details, and leaving the photos looking pale and unnatural.
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An accident or an intentional gamble?
An example of Sony’s AI Camera Assistant tool in action, as provided by Sony itself (Image credit: Sony)
Even if the feature really is this bad, it’s bizarre that Sony would highlight its failings like this, so there’s some debate online about what’s going on. Nothing’s CEO Carl Pei even weighed in, suggesting “this must be engagement farming??” But if it is, it’s quite the gamble given just how terrible this makes the feature look.
Other replies have described the results as “awful” and noted that “all the originals look better”, with one poster saying, “If this is intelligence, I’d prefer my phone dumb.” Another simply asks, “Is this satire?”
The response is almost universally negative, and it seems hard to believe that Sony didn’t realize the adjusted photos look worse. But it’s also hard to imagine the company would intentionally post bad images for engagement.
Perhaps, then, the before and after shots have accidentally been mislabeled, but the post has been up for quite a while now, so you’d think it would have been taken down if that was the case.
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We’ll be interested to give the AI Camera Assistant feature a try for ourselves when we get our hands on the Sony Xperia 1 VIII, but for now, based on Sony’s own images, it looks like something you might want to steer well clear of.
LinkedIn is laying off workers across engineering, product and marketing, Bloomberg reported Wednesday, as the tech sector continues shedding roles.
CEO Daniel Shapero disclosed the cuts in an internal memo cited by Bloomberg. The professional networking platform, which is owned by Microsoft, did not say how many of its 17,500 employees would be affected or where they are based. A report from Reuters put the cuts at 5% of the workforce.
“As part of our regular business planning, we’ve implemented organizational changes to best position ourselves for future success,” a company spokesperson told GeekWire via email.
Shapero took the helm at LinkedIn last month after serving as chief operating officer since 2021. He succeeded Ryan Roslansky, who was elevated to executive vice president overseeing both LinkedIn and Microsoft Office.
The cuts come despite strong financial performance. In January, LinkedIn reported crossing $5 billion in quarterly revenue for the first time, and last month said its annual revenue grew 12% year-over-year. Microsoft acquired the company a decade ago for $26.2 billion.
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The layoffs are the latest in a string of workforce reductions at Microsoft. The tech giant cut 6,000 employees, roughly 3% of its global workforce, about a year ago, then trimmed an additional 9,000 jobs last July. It recently offered voluntary retirement to thousands of employees for the first time in its 51-year history, targeting workers whose age plus years of service total 70 or more, and has flattened management layers while overhauling its compensation structure.
Microsoft has repeatedly denied a direct link between the cuts and its growing use of artificial intelligence to automate coding tasks. But as AI efficiencies expand and the company invests billions in data centers, it continues trimming its payrolls.
Walk around your estate, MRT station, park connector, or even the CBD, and chances are you’ve come across these bright blue shared bicycles—HelloRide has quietly become part of everyday life in Singapore.
Launched in Singapore in 2022, the firm has grown to become one of the largest in the city-state, with a fleet of 20,000 shared bicycles here.
So what’s actually behind its growing presence?
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It’s not just about putting more bikes on the road, but how the service has been designed from removing common user frustrations to constantly improving the bicycles and working with partners across Singapore’s mobility ecosystem.
No top-ups, no deposits, no friction
One of the first things HelloRide focused on was removing some of the biggest friction points that riders commonly face.
Instead of requiring users to top up their wallets or place deposits before they can start riding, the platform allows users to simply unlock a bike and pay after the ride.
It is currently the only shared bicycle operator in Singapore offering this pay-after-ride model, with rides starting from S$1. There’s also no minimum balance to maintain and no locked funds sitting in an account.
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For many riders, especially those who have used bike-sharing services in the past, this addresses a very real pain point, from needing to top up S$10 just to start a ride, to dealing with unused balances or delayed deposit returns.
At the same time, HelloRide also offers subscription passes for more regular users. With passes priced from as low as S$0.22 per day, riders can enjoy unlimited free usage for the first 30 minutes of every ride, making it a cost-effective option for daily commuting.
Overall, HelloRide makes bike-sharing more accessible for both casual riders and daily commuters.
Keeping the fleet fresh
Another factor that often goes unnoticed is the condition of the bicycles themselves.
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HelloRide operates on a relatively aggressive fleet renewal cycle, replacing its bicycles approximately every 1.5 years. As part of its ongoing upgrade efforts, the company will be replacing around 9,000 older bicycle models this year alone.
This ensures that riders are consistently using newer bicycles that are better maintained, more reliable, and designed with improved safety features.
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For users, this translates into something simple but important: peace of mind when riding. Whether it’s a short trip to the MRT or a longer ride across the park, having a well-maintained and up-to-date bicycle makes a noticeable difference in both comfort and safety.
Rather than maximising the lifespan of each bicycle, HelloRide’s approach prioritises rider experience and operational reliability, ensuring that the fleet on the ground remains in optimal condition.
Moreover, the firm also continuously iterates and develops new bicycle designs based on how people actually ride in Singapore. Over time, it noticed recurring user feedback requesting features such as shared e-bikes and bicycles with gears, particularly for users travelling longer distances or riding in leisure areas such as East Coast Park and Marina Bay.
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However, while fully shared e-bikes are currently not permitted under Singapore regulations, traditional external geared bicycles can also create significant maintenance and operational challenges when deployed at large fleet scale.
To bridge this gap, HelloRide has developed a new hybrid bicycle concept featuring automatic internal gearing, designed to provide a smoother and more comfortable riding experience while maintaining operational sustainability and maintenance efficiency.
As part of this effort, the company is preparing to roll out the new hybrid bicycle model under a pilot programme in selected areas such as East Coast Park and Marina Bay in June. The bicycles are designed with enhanced ergonomics and improved riding posture, catering to users who spend more time on the bike and require a more comfortable riding experience over longer distances.
HelloRide’s hybrid bicycle model./ Image Credit: HelloRide
“Our approach has always been to build and refine our bicycles based on real user behaviour, rather than forcing a single model across all scenarios,” said Hayden Choo, the 32-year-old Managing Director of HelloRide Singapore.
“Singapore is an important market for us, and we see it as a place where we can continuously test and introduce better riding experiences.”
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Integrating into everyday platforms & brands
Beyond its core bike-sharing service, HelloRide has been expanding into a broader, more integrated mobility ecosystem—not just through transport platforms, but also through lifestyle and brand collaborations.
Instead of requiring users to download yet another standalone app, HelloRide has embedded its services into the platforms people already use in their daily lives. This includes the Grab miniapp ecosystem, allowing users to locate and unlock bicycles directly within the Grab platform, as well as collaborations such as bundled mobility passes with partners like Ryde.
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At the same time, the company has also moved into advertising and brand partnerships, working with names such as Razer, ClassPass, and ZUS Coffee. These collaborations turn HelloRide bicycles into moving touchpoints across the city, allowing brands to reach users in a visible and contextual way.
HelloRide’s collaboration with Razer./ Image Credit: HelloRide
Together, these efforts position HelloRide not just as a bike-sharing operator, but as part of a wider urban lifestyle ecosystem.
Supporting gig workers
HelloRide’s expansion has also extended into partnerships with gig economy platforms, particularly in supporting delivery riders who rely on mobility for their daily income.
In collaboration with partners such as foodpanda, HelloRide is providing premium foldable and road bicycles to new delivery riders as part of their onboarding process. These bicycles offer a higher-performance alternative for riders who may not yet own their own equipment, allowing them to get started more quickly and operate more efficiently.
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At the same time, through ongoing engagement with riders on the ground, HelloRide has identified additional challenges, particularly around battery limitations for power-assisted bicycles (PABs), which may not always last a full working day.
To address this, the company is exploring battery swapping infrastructure aimed at reducing downtime and enabling riders to maximise their earning potential.
Taken together, these initiatives reflect a broader approach: not just serving riders, but actively supporting the ecosystem that depends on them.
Beyond shared bicycles
Looking ahead, HelloRide is exploring the possibility of expanding into physical retail, bringing premium bicycle experiences closer to everyday users. This includes well-known brands such as Brompton and Canyon, which are typically associated with high-quality, performance-oriented bicycles.
By introducing these models through rental or leasing options, HelloRide aims to give users the opportunity to test ride premium bicycles without the pressure of committing to a full purchase upfront.
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In other words, this could be your chance to try before you buy, whether you’re curious about upgrading your ride or simply want to experience a higher-end bicycle, without worrying about buyer’s remorse.
HelloRide’s growing presence in Singapore isn’t driven by just one thing, but a combination of deliberate choices, from simplifying the user experience and keeping the fleet fresh, to continuously improving its bicycles and working with partners across everyday platforms.
Leading this growth is Hayden, who has spent years in Singapore’s mobility and ride-hailing ecosystem. Under his leadership, HelloRide Singapore’s focus on ecosystem integration and operational localisation is an approach that has paid off.
Hayden Choo./ Image Credit: HelloRide
“Anyone can deploy bicycles. But building a sustainable mobility platform in Singapore requires understanding local user behaviour, maintaining operational discipline, and continuously improving the rider experience,” said Hayden.
It’s an approach that we believe has paid off in the form of increasingly visible ridership across Singapore.
Hayden Choo, the 32-year-old Managing Director of HelloRide Singapore
Mira Murati still wants to build AI superintelligence. But the ex-CTO of OpenAI sees human intelligence as a critical part of the equation.
At a time of rising worry over AI eliminating jobs and increasing the power of few big companies, Murati’s startup, Thinking Machines Lab, offers a radically different vision of the technology.
“At some point we will have super-intelligent machines,” Murati tells WIRED. “But we think that the best way to actually have many possible futures—good futures—is to keep humans in the loop.”
Murati says AI doesn’t need to automate humans out of the equation. A more optimistic approach, she suggests, is to let people build and customize their own frontier AI models, then work with those models to achieve their goals.
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This week, Thinking Machines previewed a new kind of AI model that it says points toward a more human-inclusive reality. The company’s “interaction models” are trained to communicate with a person through a camera and microphone. Unlike many existing voice-mode interfaces, the new models do not simply capture and transcribe speech, then feed it into a language model that processes it in the same way as a chatbot. The interaction models natively understand continuous, messy, human communication—meaning they are better able to grasp the meaning of pauses, interruptions, and changes in tone. This allows them to adapt on the fly when someone clarifies a point or changes the subject. The company showed off several videos demonstrating these capabilities, though the models have not been released publicly.
Murati’s approach stands in contrast to how most big AI companies seem to be pursuing superintelligence today. OpenAI, Anthropic, Google are developing large models that do increasingly complex work, including writing entire software applications from scratch, via a text prompt. This requires little help from a human.
Thinking Machines is not the only startup to envision a more human-inclusive future. Other labs, including Humans&, also aim to develop AI systems that prioritize human collaboration. Some prominent economists have called for AI researchers and companies to build systems in this way, focusing on human empowerment rather than replacement.
Murati left her role as the chief technology officer of OpenAI in 2024, cofounding Thinking Machines with several prominent engineers. Thinking Machines has raised billions of dollars to build frontier AI.
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So far, however, the company has released only one product. Tinker, launched in October 2025, makes it possible to refine a frontier AI model using custom data. Today, it is available as an API that researchers and engineers can use to fine-tune open source models.
Alexander Kirillov, a founding team member of Thinking Machines and an expert on multimodal AI, meaning models that handle audio and video as well as text, says the lab’s new interaction models also have the potential to enable more customized and personalized AI.
“The model constantly perceives what you’re doing and is constantly there to be able to reply and give you information or search for information or use other tools,” Kirillov says. “This is something that none of [today’s other] models can actually do. The turns [in a conversation] are determined by a much less intelligent system.”
Mira says it’s all part of a bigger AI vision.
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“This is showing the first bet on human collaboration,” she explains. “Where this is going is really amplifying people’s own preferences and values, with AI actually understanding intent and predicting intent.”
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The TeamPCP hacker group is threatening to leak source code from the Mistral AI project unless a buyer is found for the data.
In a post on a hacker forum, the threat actor is asking $25,000 for a set of nearly 450 repositories.
Mistral AI is a French artificial intelligence company founded by former researchers from Google’s DeepMind and Meta, which provides open-weight large language models (LLMs), both open source and proprietary.
The incident started with the compromise of official packages from TanStack and Mistral AI through stolen CI/CD credentials and legitimate workflows.
Then it spread to hundreds of other software projects on the npm and PyPI registries, including UiPath, Guardrails AI, and OpenSearch.
“They [the hackers] contaminated some of our SDK packages for a brief period,” the company said.
TeamPCP claims to have stolen nearly 5 gigabytes “of internal repositories and source code” that Mistral uses for training, fine-tuning, benchmarking, model delivery, and inference in experiments and future projects.
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“We are looking for $25k BIN or they can pay this and we will shred these permanently, only selling to the best offer and limited to one person, if we cannot find a buyer within a week we will leak all of these for free to the forums,” the hackers said.
The threat actor appears open to negotiations, stating that the asking price is flexible and that interested buyers are free to submit what they believe is a fair offer for the 450 repositories offered for sale.
TeamPCP hackers offering to sell Mistral AI data source: KELA
Mistral AI told BleepingComputer that the TeamPCP managed to contaminate some of the company’s software development kit (SDK) packages.
In an advisory published earlier this week, the company said that the breach occurred after a developer device was impacted by the TanStack supply-chain attack.
However, Mistral states that the forensic investigation determined that the impacted data was not part of the core code repositories.
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“Neither our hosted services, managed user data, nor any of our research and testing environments were compromised,” Mistral told BleepingComputer.
Earlier today, OpenAI also confirmed that the TanStack supply-chain impacted systems of two of its employees who had access to “a limited subset of internal source code repositories.”
A small set of credentials was stolen from the repositories, but the investigation found no evidence that they were used in additional attacks.
OpenAI responded by rotating the code-signing certificates exposed in the incident and warning macOS users that they must update their OpenAI desktop apps before June 12, or the software may fail to launch and stop receiving updates.
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ChatGPT is now one of the most popular tools people use online. From content creation to quick problem-solving, ChatGPT has become a go-to tool for millions of users. It helps save your precious time and simplify your routine work, but at times, glitches can occur, and you may see ChatGPT not loading or responding to you. However, there is no need to worry since most of these problems have quite easy solutions.
1. Check if ChatGPT Is Down
Before trying any fixes, it’s important to check whether the problem is actually on ChatGPT’s side. The server could be under maintenance or facing an issue due to high traffic, and a message would indicate a problem when trying to load ChatGPT. This would affect all users, since they all depend on the same server. The easiest way to check is to visit OpenAI’s website.
Furthermore, if the site is functioning normally, but ChatGPT isn’t providing results, it might be due to high traffic. High amounts of users at the same time can affect the system. No problem should arise in such situations; you only have to be patient. Everything will likely resolve itself shortly.
2. Check Your Internet Connection
It could even be a problem with your internet connection rather than ChatGPT. Slow Internet speeds can sometimes interfere with your connection, regardless of the service you’re using. Test whether you can browse other websites. You may also try restarting your router or using mobile data if you have been relying on Wi-Fi up until now.
3. Log Out and Log Back In
Sometimes, ChatGPT may stop working because your login session has expired without you noticing. This can happen if you’ve been inactive for a while or left the tab open. When the session expires, the chatbot may stop responding. To fix this, log out of your account and log in again. This simple step often solves the issue.
4. Use the ChatGPT Mobile App and Incognito Mode
When the web version of ChatGPT doesn’t work as expected, using the mobile app can help. It doesn’t depend on your browser, which means it can avoid many common web-related problems. The app is available on Android and iOS.
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An extension or browser setting may affect your ability to use the website properly. The solution to this problem is to access ChatGPT in an incognito window or disable extensions altogether. If that does not solve the problem, you can also try using another browser.
5. Clear Browser Cache and Data
Another reason ChatGPT may stop functioning is your browser’s cache. Your browser cache may prevent sites from loading properly in some cases. All you need to do in such cases is clear your cache and browse through data; after that, restart your browser. However, keep in mind that all your accounts will be logged out.
6. Disable VPN
A VPN connection can sometimes create issues while using ChatGPT. VPNs use shared IP addresses, and some of these may be restricted or flagged by the system. This can lead to problems like the website not loading, showing errors, or not responding properly. To check if this is the cause, turn off your VPN and reload the ChatGPT website. If everything starts working normally, then the VPN was likely affecting your connection.
Watch IIHF World Championship 2026 live streams, as newly crowned Olympic champions the USA look to defend their world title in Zurich and Fribourg, Switzerland. The US join 15 of the world’s top sides, include a Canada side intent on revenge, for a festival on ice.
The difficulty for the US side, now led by Don Granato, is that a lot of their gold medal-winning roster from Milano-Cortina are still in Stanley Cup contention and will be absent. Matthew Tkachuk is playing, though, as they seek more gold.
Canada may even start as slight favorites, with San Jose Sharks star Macklin Celebrini, superb at the Olympics, captaining a side desperate for revenge. Heck, Sidney Crosby has even accpted a call-up to the Canucks roster for this tournament after Olympic and world quarterfinal losses in the past 12 months.
Elsewhere, Switzerland have plenty of the squad that has finished runners-up in the past two tournaments, but a new coach (Jan Cadieux) after Patrick Fischer was sacked over a fake COVID-19 vaccine passport.
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Finland will also feature prominently, with Anton Lundell of the Florida Panthers among their star players. But it’s the hits, fights and intrigue that make this the greatest show on ice.
Here’s how to watch the IIHF World Championship 2026 ice hockey from anywhere, including worldwide TV channels, broadcasters and any free live streams below.
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Select games, including those featuring Austria, will be on free-to-air broadcaster and streaming service ORF On. Sign up with a free account to start watching.
In the United States, NHL Network is the exclusive home of IIHF World Championsjo[, which can be accessed directly or via ‘over the top’ streaming providers that offer free trials, our favorites are:
Traveling outside your home country for the tournament? Use NordVPN to get past geo-blockers and tune in to your regular ice hockey live streams.
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Use a VPN to watch any IIHF World Championship 2026 stream
Away from home at the moment and blocked from watching the IIHF World Championship 2026 on your usual subscription?
You can still watch the IIHF World Championship 2026 live thanks to the wonders of a VPN (Virtual Private Network). The software allows your devices to appear to be back in your home country, regardless of where in the world you are, making it ideal for viewers away on vacation or on business. Our favorite is NordVPN. It’s the best on the market:
It’s really straightforward to use a VPN to watch the IIHF World Championship 2026.
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1. Install the VPN of your choice. As we’ve said, NordVPN is one of our favorites.
2. Choose the location you wish to connect to in the VPN app. For example, if you want to watch the ORF On stream, select ‘Austria’ from the listed countries.
3. Sit back and enjoy the action. Head to ORF On’s website and tune into IIHF World Championship 2026.
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How to watch IIHF World Championship 2026 live streams in the US
In the US, IIHF World Championship 2026 is being shown on NHL Network.
NHL Network is also available on our favorite Sling TV via its Sports Extra addon. That supplement is $11 a month, which can be tacked onto the $19.99/month Essentials plan, which already includes ESPN and ESPN2
DirecTV MySports Genre Pack has NHL Network, and costs $64.99/month after the 5-day FREE trial we mentioned earlier. Also, new customers get $20 off each of their first two months.
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Fubo also carries NHL Network. After the aforementioned 7-day trial, its Pro tier costs from $73.99 a month, though there are often some early discounts available.
Outside the US for this tournament? Use NordVPN to unlock your stream of IIHF World Championship 2026.
How to watch IIHF World Championship 2026 live streams in Canada
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Ice hockey fans in Canada can live stream the IIHF World Championship 2026 on the TSN network of channels.
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If you don’t have cable, the TSN Plus streaming service costs CA$8 a month or $80 each year.
Outside Canada while the IIHF World Championship 2026 is on? Simply use a VPN to watch from abroad.
How to watch IIHF World Championship 2026 live streams in the UK
Unfortunately, there is no confirmed broadcaster for the IIHF World Championship 2026 in the UK right now.
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That means ice hockey fans in Blighty will need to enjoy the comprehensive coverage provided by IIHF.tv, where a tournament pass costs €30.
Premier Sports have had rights in previous years, but it doesn’t look like that’s the case this time around. We’ll keep checking, though, and update this page should a late deal be done.
In the UK on vacation right now? Use NordVPN to access your usual ice hockey streams.
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It’s the same in Australia, where there is no IIHF World Championship 2026 broadcaster.
Don’t worry, though, as comprehensive IIHF World Championship coverage is being provided by IIHF.tv in Australia, where a tournament pass costs €30 (~AU$49).
Not in Australia right now? You can simply use a VPN like NordVPN to watch all the action on beIN Sports as if you were back home.
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How to watch IIHF World Championship 2026 live streams in New Zealand and RoW
In New Zealand, and many other countries around the world, IIHF.tv, where a tournament pass costs €30, is the place to go.
Missing a game due to work commitments abroad?NordVPN will give you access to your home streaming service.
IIHF World Championship 2026 Q&A
What are the IIHF World Championship 2026 groups?
Group A USA Switzerland Finland Germany Latvia Austria Hungary Great Britain
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Group B Canada Sweden Czechia Denmark Slovakia Norway Slovenia Italy
What is. the IIHF World Championship schedule?
GROUP PHASE
Friday, May 15 10:20 a.m. — Canada vs Sweden 10:20 a.m. — Finland vs Germany 2:20 p.m. — USA vs Switzerland 2:20 p.m. — Czechia vs Denmark
Saturday, May 16 6:20 a.m. — GBR vs Austria 6:20 a.m. — Slovakia vs Norway 10:20 a.m. — Hungary vs Finland 10:20 a.m. — Italy vs Canada 2:20 p.m. — Switzerland vs Latvia 2:20 p.m. — Slovenia vs Czechia
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Sunday, May 17 6:20 a.m. — GBR vs USA 6:20 a.m. — Italy vs Slovakia 10:20 a.m. — Austria vs Hungary 10:20 a.m. — Denmark vs Sweden 2:20 p.m. — Germany vs Latvia 2:20 p.m. — Norway vs Slovenia
Monday, May 18 10:20 a.m. — Finland vs USA 10:20 a.m. — Canada vs Denmark 2:20 p.m. — Germany vs Switzerland 2:20 p.m. — Sweden vs Czechia
Tuesday, May 19 10:20 a.m. — Latvia vs Austria 10:20 a.m. — Italy vs Norway 2:20 p.m. — Hungary vs GBR 2:20 p.m. — Slovenia vs Slovakia
Wednesday, May 20 10:20 a.m. — Austria vs Switzerland 10:20 a.m. — Czechia vs Italy 2:20 p.m. — USA vs Germany 2:20 p.m. — Sweden vs Slovenia
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Thursday, May 21 10:20 a.m. — Latvia vs Finland 10:20 a.m. — Canada vs Norway 2:20 p.m. — Switzerland vs GBR 2:20 p.m. — Denmark vs Slovakia
Friday, May 22 10:20 a.m. — Germany vs Hungary 10:20 a.m. — Canada vs Slovenia 2:20 p.m. — Finland vs GBR 2:20 p.m. — Sweden vs Italy
Saturday, May 23 6:20 a.m. — Latvia vs USA 6:20 a.m. — Denmark vs Slovenia 10:20 a.m. — Switzerland vs Hungary 10:20 a.m. — Slovakia vs Czechia 2:20 p.m. — Austria vs Germany 2:20 p.m. — Norway vs Sweden
Sunday, May 24 10:20 a.m. — GBR vs Latvia 10:20 a.m. — Denmark vs Italy 2:20 p.m. — Finland vs Austria 2:20 p.m. — Slovakia vs Canada
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Monday, May 25 10:20 a.m. — USA vs Hungary 10:20 a.m. — Czechia vs Norway 2:20 p.m. — Germany vs GBR 2:20 p.m. — Slovenia vs Italy
Tuesday, May 26 6:20 a.m. — Hungary vs Latvia 6:20 a.m. — Norway vs Denmark 10:20 a.m. — USA vs Austria 10:20 a.m. — Sweden vs Slovakia 2:20 p.m. — Switzerland vs Finland 2:20 p.m. — Czechia vs Canada
Finals Sunday, May 31 9:30 a.m. — Third-place playoff 2:20 p.m. — IIHF World Championship final 2026
(All times ET)
Who are the recent IIHF World Championship champions?
2025 – United States 2024 – Czechia 2023 – Canada 2022 – Finland 2021 – Canada 2020 – N/A 2019 – Finland 2018 – Sweden 2017 – Sweden 2016 – Canada
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Who have won the most IIHF World Championship gold medals?
Schedule
Canada – 28
Soviet Union / Russia – 27
Czechoslovakia / Czechia – 13
Sweden – 11
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