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Morgan Stanley’s E*TRADE reportedly considering cryptocurrency trading amid regulatory shift
Multinational investment bank and financial services company Morgan Stanley is reportedly considering plans to launch cryptocurrency trading services through its E*TRADE arm amid an expected more favorable regulatory environment under the incoming second Trump administration. The news was first reported by The Information, which claims that the plans are still in the exploratory phase. Morgan ...
Apple reportedly ceases Vision Pro production amid sluggish sales
Apple Inc. may have ceased production of its first-generation Vision Pro headset after the product, which came to market in 2024, turned out to be a massive flop for the company. Today’s claim comes from MacRumors, which cited reports in October that Apple had abruptly reduced production of the headset ahead of potential plans to ...
Tesla Cybertruck explosion outside Trump Hotel leaves one dead, FBI investigates possible terrorism
One person has died and seven others were injured when a Tesla Inc. Cybertruck exploded outside of the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas in what may have been a targeted attack. According to local media reports, the Cybertruck exploded at about 8:40 a.m. this morning in the valet area of the Trump-owned hotel. The ...
Johns Hopkins and Stanford robots learn surgery by watching videos
Researchers from Johns Hopkins University and Stanford University have revealed details of how they are training robots with videos to perform surgical tasks with the skill of human doctors, in what could be a significant step forward in medical robotics. Robotics in surgery is not new, with various use cases over a number of years. ...
Third-party provider hack exposes US Treasury Department unclassified documents
The U.S. Treasury advised lawmakers today that it had determined that hackers had remotely accessed Treasury Department workstations and unclassified documents following the compromise of a third-party software service provider. The details of the hack were in a letter shared by Reuters, which advised that on Dec. 8, the Treasury Department was notified by a ...
VC-funded Kalshi faces backlash and CFTC scrutiny over Luigi Mangione murder case futures
Kalshi Inc., a financial exchange and prediction market funded by highly prominent venture capital firms, has been forced to shut betting on the outcome of the alleged killer of United Health Group Inc. Executive Brian Thompson in an apparent breach of financial market regulations. Thompson was murdered in New York on Dec. 4. The main ...
Trump, lawmakers and advocacy groups urge Supreme Court to pause TikTok divestment
As the deadline for Byteance Ltd. to divest the U.S. operations of TikTok quickly approaches, President-elect Trump, various members of Congress and advocacy groups have made representations to the U.S. Supreme Court in favor of pausing the forced selloff. The forced selloff of the U.S. arm of TikTok was signed into law by President Biden ...
Botnets leverage decade-old D-Link vulnerabilities in new attack campaigns
A new report out today from Fortinet Inc.’s FortiGuard Labs details the activities of two different botnets observed through October and November that are being spread through vulnerabilities in D-Link Systems Inc. devices. The botnets and their related malware — one a Mirai botnet variant dubbed “FICORA” and the other a Kaiten botnet variant dubbed “CAPSAICIN” — ...
South Korea accelerates construction of Yongin semiconductor hub to start in 2026
The South Korean government has moved up the beginning of construction of what is set to be the world’s largest semiconductor hub, the Yongin Semiconductor National Industrial Complex, to start in December 2026. As part of the planning process, the country’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport has designated the cluster as a national industrial complex ...
US allocates $3B to ‘rip and replace’ Chinese technology at smaller telcos
A defense funding bill signed by U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday included $3 billion in funding to help telecom firms remove and replace Chinese technology used in their businesses. The so-called “rip and replace” provision in the 2025 National Defense Authorization Act targets equipment from companies such as Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. and ZTE ...









