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@ D.C.
👀 Brian Harrell, a Department of Homeland Security official during Trump's first term, is among those invited to interview at Mar-a-Lago for a cyber role. (The Record)
🏛️ TikTok asked the U.S. Court of Appeals to halt the ban-or-divest law pending a Supreme Court review. (Axios Pro)
🫠 Brendan Carr, Trump's pick to run the FCC, told CNBC that the information he's learned about Salt Typhoon recently has made him want to "basically smash my phone." (Cybersecurity Dive)
@ Industry
🤖 OpenAI released its AI-generated video tool, Sora, to paying customers. (Axios)
🏃♂️ Google has released its new quantum chip, which the company says can perform calculations in five minutes that would take typical supercomputers 10 septillion years. (Axios)
@ Hackers and hacks
⚠️ Hackers are actively exploiting a security flaw in yet another company's popular file transfer tools, researchers warned. (TechCrunch)
⚡️ A top electricity distributor in Romania is fighting a ransomware attack, days after the country's top court annulled the presidential election results because of suspected Russian interference. (BleepingComputer)
🩺 U.S. medical device giant Artivion said in an SEC filing that hackers stole some of its files during a recent "cybersecurity incident." (TechCrunch)
