The Alabama Supreme Court ruled (PDF) in February that embryos created through in vitro fertilization have the same legal rights as children, moving the national spotlight on a medical procedure many people use to become pregnant and grow their families.  Some fertility clinics in Alabama paused their services, out of... Read more

As music from Universal Music Group artists started to disappear from TikTok recently, a different kind of earworm got stuck in my head. Even though it’s not a song, I sang it in the shower and whispered it in my sleep: “You have been promoted! You are now one... Read more

A staggering 91% of enterprises have fallen victim to software supply chain incidents in just a year, underscoring the need for better safeguards for continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.  Four in 10 enterprises say misconfigured cloud services, stolen secrets from source code repositories, insecure use of APIs and compromised... Read more

The US government says it would be better for them if you ceased using C or C++ when programming tools. In a recent report, the White House Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) has urged developers to utilize “memory-safe programming languages,” a classification that does not include widely... Read more

I selected desks of different sizes and styles. Some are controlled manually, while others have electric motors for height adjustment. To test each standing desk, I started out by building each one and noting the ease or difficulty, including whether I needed help with any of the steps. Then... Read more

Are you looking to showcase your brand in front of the gaming industry’s top leaders? Learn more about GamesBeat Summit sponsorship opportunities here.  D&A Studios, the developer of Conrad Stevenson’s Paranormal P.I., announced their new game this week. Called Among the Whispers — Provocation, the game is an adventure... Read more

Getty Images Code uploaded to AI developer platform Hugging Face covertly installed backdoors and other types of malware on end-user machines, researchers from security firm JFrog said Thursday in a report that’s a likely harbinger of what’s to come. In all, JFrog researchers said, they found roughly 100 submissions... Read more

According to lawyer Sara Goldstein of the law firm BakerHostetler, the Change Healthcare massive attack has caused approximately 120 of the company’s IT products and services to go offline since February 21. This cyber disruption substantially and extensively affects the whole healthcare business, including major companies. The cybercriminals claimed... Read more

Goodbye, Odie. On Thursday, Houston-based space-exploration company Intuitive Machines bade farewell to Odysseus, the lunar lander that took the US to the moon for the first time in more than 50 years. The lander had been there for a week and will remain on the moon’s surface, inoperable but remembered... Read more

according to rumors, new iPads are on the way. Apple reportedly plans on launching a new iPad Air, iPad Pro, and iPad Mini this month. Most of the changes will be internal (such as updated processors for faster performance) while the external design will mainly remain the same (aside... Read more