Morning Briefing #53 — May 18, 2026

Morning Briefing #54 — Monday, May 18, 2026Your daily briefing connecting world events, technology, and education.No political slant. Just facts.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📋 IN TODAY'S EPISODE━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🌍 WORLD NEWSWHO Declares Ebola Outbreak in Congo and Uganda a Global Health EmergencyAmnesty International: Global Executions Hit Their Highest Level Since 1981New Gaza-Bound Flotilla of 50+ Boats Departs Turkey as Israel Moves to Intercept💻 TECHApple Releases iOS 26.5 with RCS End-to-End Encryption for All UsersPwn2Own Berlin 2026: $908,750 Awarded for 39 Zero-Days in Windows, Exchange, and LinuxAnthropic Closes In on $900 Billion Valuation, Poised to Outpace OpenAI🏫 EDUCATIONCanvas LMS Breach Exposes 275 Million Users Across 8,800 Schools — Ransom PaidEd-Tech Backlash Reaches the Legislature: 16 States Move to Restrict Classroom Screen TimeEducation Department Shifts Federal Priorities Toward AI Literacy and Career Readiness🤖 AI & EMERGING TECHAnthropic Reports 80x Revenue Growth, Targets $900B+ Valuation at Board Meeting This MonthMandiant M-Trends 2026: 28% of Vulnerabilities Now Exploited Within 24 Hours of DisclosureRunway Bets on "World Models": AI That Learns Physics From Video, Not Language From Text🛡️ CYBERSECURITYCanvas LMS Breach Is Now the Largest Educational Data Breach in History"NGINX Rift" (CVE-2026-42945): An 18-Year-Old Flaw Is Now Being Actively ExploitedCISA Flags ASUS Update Tool Flaw and Cisco SD-WAN Zero-Day Under Active Exploitation📈 TRENDINGEbola | Aaron Rai | Rededicate 250 | Oilers | Asteroid 2026 JH2🌌 CLOSING STORYAsteroid 2026 JH2 Flies Past Earth Tonight — Closer Than the Moon, Perfectly Safe, and You Can Watch Live━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Stay informed. Stay curious.New episode every weekday morning.#MorningBriefing #WorldNews #AINews #EdTech #Cybersecurity #Anthropic #Ebola #Canvas #NotebookLM