York University in Toronto says an unauthorized actor accessed personal information submitted through online forms on 14 university websites, discovered on October 25. Exposed data varies by individual and includes contact details, government ID, health, financial, academic, employment and criminal background information, though most stolen records contained only basic contact details and ID numbers. The university says the affected forms are now secured, and it will notify those whose government ID or financial data was exposed, offering two years of credit monitoring.
bleepingcomputer.com
· 2026-11-09
Beth George, a 63-year-old bagel consultant from upstate New York, has spent the past decade training nearly 100 bagel shop owners around the globe, including clients in India, Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, Sweden and the Palestinian territories. During a visit to Bagel Barn near Toronto, she advised owner Terry Perusini on repairing a broken $40,000 oven rather than replacing it, while also teaching his staff dough-handling techniques and a proprietary sponge mixture.
thehustle.co
· 2026-11-02
Waymo announced it will bring its autonomous ride-hailing service to the Toronto area in 2028, starting with a limited fleet of Jaguar I-Pace SUVs that will expand over time. Before autonomous rides begin, human-driven Waymo vehicles will map streets and test in neighborhoods like Liberty Village, St. Lawrence Market and Yorkdale, using a sixth-generation driving system built to handle Toronto's winter conditions. Waymo is partnering with Toronto-based Element Fleet Management for maintenance and customer service, and sign-ups are open on its website.
cnet.com
· 2026-10-16
Waymo has been cleared to join Ontario's automated vehicle pilot program, marking its first expansion into Canada. The company will start by manually driving vehicles to map Toronto's streets, then test autonomous vehicles with safety drivers before eventually removing them and opening rides to the public. Waymo has partnered with Element Fleet Management to handle fleet operations in the city.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-10-16
Waymo announced plans to bring its self-driving ride-hailing service to Toronto, starting with manual-driving mapping and testing phases before a planned 2028 launch for riders. The company is partnering with Toronto-based Element Fleet Management for fleet operations and maintenance, and says it will create hundreds of jobs across driving, customer service and operations roles.
waymo.com
· 2026-10-16
The SecTor cybersecurity conference concluded in Toronto last week, drawing its largest crowd yet with attendance up 22% over the prior event. Industry experts used the gathering to discuss emerging security risks facing organizations.
darkreading.com
· 2026-10-15
Physicists led by Arun Paramekanti at the University of Toronto devised a technique using rotating light to detect atomic vibrations tied to electron spin, revealing a hidden magnetic state called octupolar order that behaves as if it has eight poles instead of the usual two. The findings, published in Physical Review Letters, provide the first direct optical evidence of this exotic quantum magnetic state in crystalline materials.
science.slashdot.org
· 2026-10-04
Robert Herjavec, an investor on ABC's 'Shark Tank,' recounted to the Wall Street Journal how his family fled Yugoslavia in 1970 with just $50 after his father was repeatedly arrested for opposing the Communist Party. He described arriving in Canada unable to speak English, working an unpaid office manager job in his early 20s to break into tech, and eventually earning equity that funded his 1990 founding of the Herjavec Group, an IT security firm.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-09-24
A new report titled 'Pacing the Frontier' argues that despite widespread agreement among AI leaders that development may need to slow down, there is no clear technical or policy framework for how to actually do it. Coauthor Raymond Douglas of the University of Toronto says the field needs to treat slowdown as an unsolved research problem rather than a vague aspiration, especially as fears grow over AI systems being used to build even more powerful successors.
wired.com
· 2026-09-18
JustWatch, best known as a guide for finding where to stream content, announced at the Toronto International Film Festival that it will launch its own platform called JustWatch TV in October. The service will offer three tiers: a free ad-supported option, rental/purchase titles, and a paid ad-free subscription, with initial content from Fremantle, Paramount and Bleecker Street. It will launch across the US, UK, Canada, and several European and Oceania markets, with plans to expand further.
cnet.com
· 2026-09-15
Following Marvel's stalled Blade reboot, star Mahershala Ali and director Bassam Tariq have teamed up on a new film called Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. The film follows a devout Muslim hitman who must raise three children, including a newborn, after his wife's death while his violent past resurfaces.
theverge.com
· 2026-09-13
At TIFF, Laika crew members detailed technical advances behind their upcoming stop-motion film Wildwood, due in theaters next month. The studio credited digital frame-grabbers that let animators review recently shot frames for smoother movement, plus improved internal puppet mechanisms called breathers that simulate lifelike breathing in nearly all major characters.
theverge.com
· 2026-09-12
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