8 briefs
→ US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) resumed buying commercially sourced location histories from data brokers that can track Americans without a warrant and told lawmakers it relies on the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) to justify those purchases.
→ USA's FBI seized two domains linked to Handala, replacing their content with a law-enforcement banner after nameserver records showed the domains now resolve to servers controlled by the FBI.
→ Stryker is restoring its computers and internal network after a March 11 cyberattack in which pro‑Iranian hackers used access to the company's Microsoft Intune management dashboards to remotely wipe tens of thousands of employee laptops and phones.
→ United States and European law enforcement seized LeakBase's forum and database, redirected its domain to Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) — the United States domestic criminal and counterintelligence law enforcement agency — controlled nameservers, preserved an archive of hundreds of millions of stolen credentials and payment records, and carried out more than 13 arrests alongside roughly 100 enforcement actions worldwide.
→ India cleared a $1.1 billion fund-of-funds that will deploy government capital through private venture firms to back artificial intelligence, advanced manufacturing and other deep-tech startups.
→ Indonesia conditionally lifted its ban on xAI’s chatbot Grok.
→ Nvidia licensed AI chip tech from Groq, hired its CEO, and reportedly purchased assets worth $20 billion to enhance its AI chip capabilities.
→ Italy ordered Meta to suspend its WhatsApp policy banning rival AI chatbots, citing anti-competitive risks. The European Commission is also investigating.
