Catch up quick

@ D.C.

🏛️ Both Kash Patel, President Trump's pick to lead the FBI, and Tulsi Gabbard, his nominee to lead the intelligence community, were grilled in the Senate during their confirmation hearings yesterday. (Axios)

🔬 OpenAI is putting its models on a supercomputer at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and making the model available to researchers at other national labs. (Axios)

👨🏻‍⚖️ A new lawsuit claims that officials at the Office of Personnel Management bypassed a required privacy impact assessment before setting up an on-premise server to run its new government-wide email blast list. (FedScoop)

@ Industry

📈 CrowdStrike says it got a perfect score on an industry test for ransomware detection, protection and accuracy — sending its stock price soaring. (Barron's)

👀 OpenAI has accused DeepSeek of violating its terms of use by "inappropriately" using the ChatGPT maker's outputs to train its own models. (Axios)

👔 More than 8 in 10 CISOs now report directly to their company's CEO, a major jump from less than half who did so just two years ago, according to a new report. (Cybersecurity Dive)

@ Hackers and hacks

🤖 Chinese and Iranian hacker teams are using Google's Gemini and other AI models to bolster their cyberattacks, according to new Google research. (Wall Street Journal)

📲 Researchers have uncovered two vulnerabilities in Apple-designed chips powering Macs, iPhones and iPads that could leave them vulnerable to data leaks. (Ars Technica)

🩸 A New York-based blood center that serves more than 75 million people is battling a ransomware attack that's already forced officials to reschedule blood drives and come up with operational workarounds. (The Record)