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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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” — ...

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 ...

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 ...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has finalized an order requiring Marriott International Inc. and its subsidiary Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide LLC to implement a comprehensive information security program to settle charges following multiple hacks of the hotel group that led to the theft of details of 344 million customers globally. In its complaint, the ...

North Korean hackers linked to the infamous Lazarus hacking group have been identified as being behind the theft of more than 4,500 bitcoins from Japanese cryptocurrency exchange DMM Bitcoin earlier this year. The Federal Bureau of Investigation, in conjunction with the Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center and National Police Agency of Japan, has revealed ...

A new report out today from Fortinet Inc.’s FortiGuard Labs is warning of two newly discovered malicious Python packages that pose a high risk of credential theft, data exfiltration and unauthorized system access. The first vulnerability, Zebo-0.1.0, was found to demonstrate sophisticated malware behavior, including obfuscation techniques to hide its functionality and make it difficult ...