For a brief moment, Bethany Donaphin was able to be still. Against the backdrop of the historic Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York City, the site of the 2024 WNBA draft, Donaphin, who oversees the planning of the annual event, sat on a stool in the mezzanine section as preparations were completed. As the...
In a significant move to support families affected by police violence, Representative Cori Bush, alongside other Democratic Representatives, has reintroduced the Helping Families Heal Act. This legislation, first proposed in September 2022, coincides with what would have been Michael Brown’s 28th birthday, a young Black man whose death at the hands of police sparked a...
X Instagram TikTok The WNBA officially announced its expansion to Canada on Thursday morning. Toronto, selected as the league’s 14th team, will begin play in 2026. Photo by Sara Jane Gamelli/Ballislife It’s official. After months of speculation, Canada is officially the home of the latest WNBA expansion team. Although Toronto was chosen as the next...
The platform will keep state-affiliated media accounts out of users’ feeds if they “attempt to reach communities outside their home country on current global events and affairs.”
Marc Andreessen, Chamath Palihapitiya and several other tech venture capitalists are increasingly criticizing President Biden and making their disaffection known in an election year.
Enlarge (credit: JAVS) A software maker serving more than 10,000 courtrooms throughout the world hosted an application update containing a hidden backdoor that maintained persistent communication with a malicious website, researchers reported Thursday, in the latest episode of a supply-chain attack. The software, known as the JAVS Viewer 8, is a component of the JAVS...
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Bing, Microsoft’s search engine platform, went down in the very early morning today. That meant that searches from Microsoft’s Edge browsers that had yet to change their default providers didn’t work. It also meant that services relying on Bing’s search API—Microsoft’s own Copilot, ChatGPT search, Yahoo, Ecosia, and DuckDuckGo—similarly failed. Services...
Enlarge For more than four days, a server at the very core of the Internet’s domain name system was out of sync with its 12 root server peers due to an unexplained glitch that could have caused stability and security problems worldwide. This server, maintained by Internet carrier Cogent Communications, is one of the 13...