Diablo Immortal. | Image: Blizzard Diablo Immortal, the free-to-play Diablo game for mobile and PC, was delayed in China last month because of a social media post that could be interpreted as criticism of Chinese President Xi Jinping, according to Bloomberg. The post, which came from the official Diablo Immortal Weibo account, reportedly alluded to…
As Twitter user SwiftOnSecurity once quipped: “Nobody has fun in the deposition room fam.” | Photo by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge Several top Meta executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, COO Sheryl Sandberg, and the person set to replace Sandberg as COO when she leaves the company later this year, are set to give depositions…
This week in Other Barks & Bites: the Senate approves a motion to advance a beefed-up version of the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors Act; the Tenth Circuit affirms a $2.35 million judgment in a case involving trade secret and false association claims in the bovine serum industry; Senator Roger Wicker (R-MS) questions the…
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) What’s worse than a widely used Internet-connected enterprise app with a hardcoded password? Try said enterprise app after the hardcoded password has been leaked to the world. Atlassian on Wednesday revealed three critical product vulnerabilities, including CVE-2022-26138 stemming from a hardcoded password in Questions for Confluence, an app that allows users…
Enlarge (credit: UCG / Contributor | Universal Images Group) While YouTube has started deleting videos promoting false information on abortion, the South Carolina Senate introduced a new bill that strives to block Internet users from talking about abortion truthfully online. Known as the “Equal Protection at Conception—No Exceptions—Act,” the bill would ban any website from…
Enlarge / F1’s young guns stare out from the cover of F1 22 (credit: EA Sports) Earlier in July saw the release of F1 22, the latest installment of the official Formula 1 racing game franchise. Unlike in years past, a lot has changed in the year since F1 2021: radical new technical rules mean…
Enlarge / A negative stain electron micrograph of a monkeypox virus virion in human vesicular fluid. (credit: Getty | BSIP) The World Health Organization is currently reconsidering whether to declare the booming multinational monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC), the agency’s highest level of alert. The deliberations come as the global…
Enlarge (credit: US DOE) From its humble start as a glacial trickle in the Swiss Alps, the Rhône River quickly transforms into one of the world’s most industrialized waterways. As it winds through the south of France toward the Mediterranean Sea, its chilly water is drawn into boilers, sucked through pipes as coolant, deviated for…
A live cell image, with surrounding cells supporting the oocyte contained inside. Activity of harmful reactive oxygen species, shown in red, is virtually absent in the oocyte. Aida Rodriguez/Nature Human eggs are designed to hold out for a long haul. When a person is born with a female reproductive system, they’ve already developed all the…
US and UK authorities have a new data agreement. DEPOSIT PHOTOS An agreement between the United States and United Kingdom to improve cross-border law enforcement data sharing will go into effect later this year, the two nations announced in a joint statement published Thursday. Called the Data Access Agreement, it will allow investigators from each…