US DOJ forms the Digital Asset Coordinators Network with 150+ federal prosecutors across the country to target illegal activities involving digital currencies (Dustin Volz/Wall Street Journal)

Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal:
In a rare speech, the UK’s GCHQ head Jeremy Fleming warns China’s tech ambitions, including a CBDC currency, are a security issue “that will define our future”  —  Confronting Beijing’s technological ambitions is ‘the national security issue that will define our future,’ Jeremy Fleming says

New York Times:
Sources: US prosecutors are seeking information from Democrats and Republicans about donations from SBF and ex-FTX executives Ryan Salame and Nishad Singh  —  Federal prosecutors appear to be focusing on possible wrongdoing by cryptocurrency executives, rather than by Democratic or Republican politicians.

New York Times:
Sources: US prosecutors are seeking information from Democrats and Republicans about donations from SBF and ex-FTX executives Ryan Salame and Nishad Singh  —  Federal prosecutors appear to be focusing on possible wrongdoing by cryptocurrency executives, rather than by Democratic or Republican politicians.

Reuters:
Sources: India’s government and central bank have asked Google to help curb illegal digital lending apps several times in recent months  —  Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google has been asked by the Indian government and the central bank to introduce more stringent checks to help curb the use …

Heather Vogell / ProPublica:
Source: the US DOJ is investigating whether rent-setting software made by RealPage is facilitating collusion among landlords to drive up rental prices  —  The DOJ will examine whether RealPage helped landlords coordinate rent increases.  Questions also swirl around a 2017 merger deal with its largest competitor.

Richard Vanderford / Wall Street Journal:
Google agrees to improve its compliance program for legal demands in a settlement with the US DOJ, which said Google lost data sought by investigators in 2016  —  The tech company will be monitored by a compliance professional after the Justice Department said Google lost data sought in a U.S. investigation