Gaming PR chief Dean Bender retiring after 40 years

Dean Bender is retiring from gaming public relations after more than 40 years. That’s quite an accomplishment, considering gaming is only about 50 years old. As BHI founder and co-president of 42West/BHI, Bender was responsible for directing public relations campaigns for a wide range of entertainment and corporate businesses, including game…Read MoreRead More

We Need an Open-Source Approach to Weed Out Bad Quality Patents

Much has been written about patent quality. But many authors approach this problem with a bias against the very idea of a patent system. These critics would “solve” the patent quality problem by cutting down the total number of issued patents rather than focusing on problem patents. They suggest increasing examiners and examination time will…

Medibank breach: Hackers start leaking health data after ransomware attack

Medibank has urged its customers to be on high alert after cybercriminals began leaking sensitive medical records stolen from the Australian health insurance giant. A ransomware group with ties to the notorious Russian-speaking REvil gang began publishing the stolen records early Wednesday, including customers’ names, birth dates, passport numbers, and information on medical claims. This…

FX’s ‘Kindred’ trailer brings Octavia E. Butler’s sci-fi novel to screens, and it looks terrifying

Octavia E. Butler’s 1979 Kindred was a transcendent science-fiction novel, following Dana, a young Black writer who time travels from 1970s Los Angeles to 19th century Maryland. The literary offering was lauded for its exploration of time, history, and ancestry. Decades after the success of Butler’s novel comes an FX-ordered series, created by showrunner and…

Facebook owner Meta to lay off 11,000 people, or 13% of its workforce

The reports were true. Facebook‘s umbrella company Meta is laying off 11,000 workers, or about 13 percent of its workforce. The company also plans to cut discretionary spending, and it will extend its hiring freeze throughout the next quarter. Company CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared the news in a blog post Wednesday, saying the decision was…

Citrix urges admins to patch these dangerous flaws immediately

Citrix has released a fix for three high-severity vulnerabilities discovered in two of its popular products, and is now urging users to apply the patch immediately. The company has fixed three flaws found in Citrix ADC and Citrix Gateway. ADC is a load-balancing solution for cloud applications, apparently used by many enterprises to ensure uninterrupted…