Current Surgical is developing a ‘smart’ needle designed to treat cancerous tumors

February 21, 2023

D.C.-based Current Surgical this week announced a $3.2 million seed. The round, which brings the firm’s total raise up to $4 million, was led by True Ventures and features 1517 Fund and SciFounders. It will be used, in part, to modestly grow the startup’s team, hiring between 6-8 engineers in the next 24 months, focused […]

Current Surgical is developing a ‘smart’ needle designed to treat cancerous tumors by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch

Hackers allegedly steal Activision games and employee data

February 21, 2023

Unknown hackers allegedly stole internal data from the games giant Activision. On Sunday, the cybersecurity and malware research group vx-underground published screenshots of data purportedly stolen from Activision, including the schedule of planned content to be released for the popular first-person shooter Call of Duty. On Monday, games blog Insider Gaming said it confirmed a data […]

Hackers allegedly steal Activision games and employee data by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai originally published on TechCrunch

TikTok expands its research API to nonprofit academic institutions in the U.S.

February 21, 2023

TikTok is expanding access to its research API to nonprofit academic institutions in the United States, the company announced on Tuesday. The expansion comes as TikTok started testing an early version of the research API back in November. Interested universities and researchers will have to apply for access and be approved by TikTok’s US Data […]

TikTok expands its research API to nonprofit academic institutions in the U.S. by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch

Coinbase says some employees’ information stolen by hackers

February 21, 2023

Crypto exchange Coinbase has confirmed that it was briefly compromised by the same attackers that targeted Twilio, Cloudflare,  DoorDash, and more than a hundred other organizations last year. In a post-mortem of the incident published over the weekend, Coinbase said that the so-called ‘0ktapus’ hackers stole the login credentials of one of its employees in an […]

Coinbase says some employees’ information stolen by hackers by Carly Page originally published on TechCrunch