Catch up quick

@ D.C.

🫡 Kristi Noem was officially sworn in as homeland security secretary over the weekend. (Fox News)

💰 Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Citizenship and Immigration Services have spent $7.8 billion since 2020 on technologies to investigate immigration cases, including ankle monitors to track asylum seekers and databases filled with sensitive data like fingerprints. (New York Times)

🛑 The State Department's broad freeze on foreign aid also applies to projects at its cyber diplomacy bureau. (The Record)

@ Industry

👨🏻‍⚖️ MGM Resorts agreed to pay $45 million to resolve a consolidated class-action lawsuit over data breaches in 2019 and 2023. (Wall Street Journal)

✒️ Perplexity AI revised its TikTok merger proposal, which would allow the U.S. government to take a 50% stake of the new company once it started trading on public markets. (CNBC)

@ Hackers and hacks

👀 DeepSeek limited new user registration as it responded to "large-scale malicious attacks" on its servers. (Axios)

⚠️ A Texas county issued a disaster declaration as it responds to a cyberattack on its internal systems. (The Bay City Tribune)