A Reuters exclusive says that Google terminated a service it had offered mobile carriers as a means of testing their network coverage. The company's Mobile Network Insights service had since 2017 offered carriers data collected from Android users who opted in to sharing location and performance data. Although the program was organized on a transparent, opt-in basis, and the data it collected were both anonymized and aggregated, Google apparently decided that Mobile Networks Insights exposed the company to more regulatory risk than it wished to accept.

Authorities in Texas say that at least twenty state agencies have sustained a "coordinated ransomware attack," the Dallas Morning News reports. The state is responding with a multiagency task force led by the Department of Information Resources, with assistance from the Division of Emergency Management, the Texas Military Department, and Texas A&M's Cyberresponse and Security Operations Center.

Science Daily and other sources say that researchers at Southern Methodist University have developed a proof-of-concept in which smartphone sensors could record the sounds of keystrokes on nearby laptops, enabling eavesdroppers to capture and interpret those keystrokes. The technique doesn't seem to represent an immediate threat, but the researchers suggest it should raise awareness of the risks inherent in always-on sensors (like those in smartphones).

TASS is authorized to disclose that Russia's Sport Minister sees a good chance that "cyber sports" will be added to the Olympics in fifteen-to-twenty years. Minister Kolobkov appears to have video games in mind, not capture-the-flag competitions. Practice your Fortnite dance, Olympians.