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The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future, reports that German authorities have seized cryptocurrency assets and server infrastructure belonging to eXch, a digital currency platform allegedly involved in laundering funds from a February 2024 hack of Bybit valued at $1.46 billion.

Google has reached a $1.375 billion settlement with the state of Texas to resolve two lawsuits alleging the unauthorized collection and use of users geolocation and biometric data, according to The Hacker News.

A proposed bill in Florida that sought to mandate social media companies to implement an encryption backdoor for law enforcement access has been withdrawn and will not become law, TechCrunch reports.

A bipartisan bill introduced in the U.S. Senate aims to prohibit federal contractors from using DeepSeek.

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group has released Bluetooth Core Specification 6.1, introducing key advancements in user privacy and energy efficiency, BleepingComputer reports.

Google is rolling out a new anti-scam feature in Chrome that uses its on-device Gemini Nano large language model to identify and block tech support scams in real time, reports BleepingComputer.

SonicWall is under growing scrutiny for not formally committing to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agencys secure-by-design pledge, even as its products continue to face exploitation by cybercriminals, according to CyberScoop.