Catch up quick

@ D.C.

🚔 The Justice Department has charged three men with carrying out Iran's hack-and-leak attack against former President Donald Trump's re-election campaign. (Washington Post)

🗳️ Senate Intelligence Chair Mark Warner (D-Va.) is urging the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to ramp up its efforts to help state and local governments detect and respond to online disinformation campaigns. (NBC News)

🚀 NASA has bought Clearview AI's controversial facial recognition tech, according to a government procurement contract. (404 Media)

@ Industry

👀 Proofpoint is considering potential strategic mergers and acquisitions and plotting a possible return to the public markets in the next 12 to 18 months. (CNBC)

💰 T-Mobile has agreed to pay a $15.75 million civil penalty to settle the Federal Communications Commission's investigation into data breaches at the company. (Reuters)

🍎 E-learning platform Udemy gave instructors only a small window to opt out of having their materials used to train AI models — and many of those instructors didn't even know it was happening. (404 Media)

@ Hackers and hacks

💔 Operations running pig-butchering scams (aka romance scams) are proliferating around the world, building beyond their Southeast Asian roots. (Wired)

🇮🇷 A deep dive into the ways Russia's Doppelganger network created and spread fake news stories, based on FBI affidavits and other research. (Foreign Affairs)