December 23, 2025

Researchers are getting organoids pregnant with human embryos

At first glance, it looks like the start of a human pregnancy: A ball-shaped embryo presses gently into the receptive lining of the uterus and then grips tight, burrowing in as the first tendrils of a future placenta appear.  This is implantation—the moment that pregnancy officially begins. Only none of it is happening inside a…

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Jakarta-based Mindtera helps companies keep an eye on employee morale

January 15, 2023

During the pandemic, Tita Ardiati and Bayu Puspito Bhaskoro began developing life coaching content to support employees who were increasingly burned out by working from home. They got a good enough reception that they decided to develop their product into an employee assistance program called Mindtera, which now serves more than 10,000 employees in Indonesia. […]

Jakarta-based Mindtera helps companies keep an eye on employee morale by Catherine Shu originally published on TechCrunch

ODIN Intelligence website is defaced as hackers claim breach

January 15, 2023

The website for ODIN Intelligence, a company that provides technology and tools for law enforcement and police departments, was defaced on Sunday. The apparent hack comes days after Wired reported that an app developed by the company, SweepWizard, which allows police to manage and coordinate multi-agency raids, had a significant security vulnerability that exposed personal […]

ODIN Intelligence website is defaced as hackers claim breach by Zack Whittaker originally published on TechCrunch

Norton LifeLock says thousands of customer accounts breached

January 15, 2023

Thousands of Norton LifeLock customers had their accounts compromised in recent weeks, potentially allowing criminal hackers access to customer password managers, the company revealed in a recent data breach notice. In a notice to customers, Gen Digital, the parent company of Norton LifeLock, said that the likely culprit was a credential stuffing attack — where […]

Norton LifeLock says thousands of customer accounts breached by Zack Whittaker originally published on TechCrunch

So much fintech M&A

January 15, 2023

Welcome to The Interchange! If you received this in your inbox, thank you for signing up and your vote of confidence. If you’re reading this as a post on our site, sign up here so you can receive it directly in the future. Every week, I’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. […]

So much fintech M&A by Mary Ann Azevedo originally published on TechCrunch

CircleCI says hackers stole encryption keys and customers’ source code

January 14, 2023

CircleCi, a software company whose products are popular with developers and software engineers, confirmed that some customers’ data was stolen in a data breach last month. The company said in a detailed blog post on Friday that it identified the intruder’s initial point of access as an employee’s laptop that was compromised with malware, allowing […]

CircleCI says hackers stole encryption keys and customers’ source code by Zack Whittaker originally published on TechCrunch

ChatGPT goes pro, layoffs at Alphabet, and Dungeons & Dragons flirts with restrictive new licensing

January 14, 2023

Welcome, welcome, folks, to Week in Review, TechCrunch’s regular column that recaps the last week in news. If you’d like it in your inbox every Saturday, sign up here. Hope you’re sitting comfortably with a warm beverage on this wintery Saturday afternoon. Expecting Greg’s byline? Not to worry — he’s still enjoying parental leave, as […]

ChatGPT goes pro, layoffs at Alphabet, and Dungeons & Dragons flirts with restrictive new licensing by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

YouTube plans to modify profanity rules that prompted creator backlash

January 14, 2023

YouTube’s gaming community pushed back against the company this week after some creators saw their old videos demonetized out of the blue. The culprit is a new policy that the company introduced back in November in order to make certain kinds of content more advertiser friendly. That change, made to YouTubes’s advertiser-friendly content guidelines, overhauled […]

YouTube plans to modify profanity rules that prompted creator backlash by Taylor Hatmaker originally published on TechCrunch