Catch up quick

@ D.C.

✂️ Amid broad agency cost-cutting efforts, two CISA leaders overseeing the agency's Secure by Design initiative said they're leaving their roles. (The Record) The agency is also ending its contracts with Google's VirusTotal and Censys. (Nextgov)

💪🏻 Chris Krebs, the CISA director during Trump's first term, is leaving his role at SentinelOne to focus full time on fighting a Justice Department probe into his work. (Axios)

💰 The newly formed CVE Foundation is looking for alternative funding models after CISA nearly ended an essential contract with research lab Mitre last week. (The Register)

@ Industry

📍 Palantir has been developing a new tool for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement that helps detect the physical location of people marked for deportation. (404 Media)

🤖 OpenAI's new o3 and o4-mini models appear to hallucinate more often than older models, according to the company's own internal testing. (TechCrunch)

💸 AuthMind, an identity protection startup, raised $19.3 million in seed funding led by Cheyenne Ventures. (Axios)

@ Hackers and hacks

📲 Apple released a set of software updates to patch two potential zero-day vulnerabilities in iOS. (TechCrunch)

⚠️ The FBI warned that scammers are now posing as employees in its Internet Crime Complaint Center. (BleepingComputer)