Trump considers Palantir exec to lead CISA

The Record collection reports on several U.S. cybersecurity and privacy developments: Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar is a leading contender to become director of CISA; the FTC is reconsidering or modifying a $150M privacy penalty against X (formerly Twitter); Russia is pursuing ‘extremist’ designations for two anti‑Kremlin hacker groups implicated in attacks on infrastructure and government targets; the U.S. Supreme Court upheld FCC fines against telecoms for sharing location data; and CISA is set to release a binding operational directive tied to the White House AI executive order focused on vuln­